75th Anniversary Philip Meyer, NF ’67 A reporter in the Washington bureau of the Knight newspapers, Meyer arrived at Harvard to learn how to apply social science research to reporting. The result: The invention of precision… September 24, 2013 Philip Meyer A.B. Guthrie Jr., NF ’45 Guthrie (1901–1991), who spent 21 years at The Lexington (Ky.) Leader, called the Nieman Fellowship his “big break.” English professor Theodore Morrison helped him write the novel “The Way West,”… September 24, 2013 A.B. Guthrie Jr. Larry L. King, NF ’70 King (1929–2012) had a wide range, from “Confessions of a White Racist,” nominated for a National Book Award, to the Playboy article that inspired “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”… September 24, 2013 Larry L. King Mary Schmich, NF ’96 A columnist at the Chicago Tribune since 1992, Schmich won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. She writes about politics, the personal, and the culture of Chicago When I left… September 24, 2013 Mary Schmich Simeon Booker, NF ’51 Working for Jet magazine, Booker covered the civil rights movement for 53 years The Nieman program under Louis M. Lyons was eons ahead of the nation’s press when it came… September 24, 2013 Simeon Booker Howard Berkes, NF ’98 For the last 10 of his 30 years at NPR, Berkes has been a rural affairs correspondent. He also is a veteran Olympics reporter, careening downhill on a luge sled… September 24, 2013 Howard Berkes Harvard Meets the Press This piece was originally published in the Spring 1989 issue of Nieman Reports Louis Lyons, star reporter, pioneer newscaster, member of the first class of Nieman Fellows, and Curator of… September 24, 2013 Louis M. Lyons Taking Back Our Language The shape and content of my decade as curator was determined by unexpected events. Howie Simons’s time as curator was cut drastically short by his death. The dissolution of the… September 24, 2013 Bill Kovach A Gift Beyond Measure As I prepared to begin my tour as curator during the summer of 2000, I worked at framing a vision of how the Nieman Foundation might build on its legacy… September 24, 2013 Bob Giles The Nieman Factor The world’s most famous physicist was, on September 9, 1920, just another press critic: “Like the man in the fairy-tale who turned everything he touched into gold,” groused Albert Einstein… September 24, 2013 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next
