75th Anniversary

Janet Heard, NF ’10

After her Nieman year, Janet Heard joined the Cape Times as assistant editor, head of news I visited my father, Tony Heard, at Harvard in 1987. About to start my…

William Marimow, NF ’83

Marimow, in his second stint as editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, received the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 1985 for his stories about the Philadelphia Police Department K-9 unit.…
Paul Salopek, NF ’12

Paul Salopek, NF ’12

A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who has canoed through rebel-controlled regions of the Congo, Salopek is walking across the world, tracing the path of the first human diaspora out of…
“Whatever it is you're here for, get on with it”

“Whatever it is you’re here for, get on with it”

I can’t tell you how my drawing class in the monastery on Memorial Drive or James Wood’s close reading of English novelist Henry Green or Diana Eck’s lecture on Gandhi…

Ying Chan, NF ’96

Founding director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong, Chan has reported from New York for the Daily News and NBC News as well…
Pablo Corral Vega, NF ’11

Pablo Corral Vega, NF ’11

A photojournalist whose work has appeared in National Geographic and The New York Times Magazine, Vega is founder and director of www.nuestramirada.org, the largest network of Latin American photojournalists. He…

Fletcher P. Martin, NF ’47

The first black journalist to receive a Nieman Fellowship, Martin (1916–2005) was a World War II correspondent. As city editor of the Louisville Defender in the 1940s, he advocated for…

Fletcher P. Martin, NF ’47

The first black journalist to receive a Nieman Fellowship, Martin (1916–2005) was a World War II correspondent. As city editor of the Louisville Defender in the 1940s, he advocated for…

Margaret Engel, NF ’79

Executive director of the Alicia Patterson Foundation, Engel has reported for The Washington Post and The Des Moines Register The setting was a Nieman seminar; the speaker one of Harvard’s…

Alice Bonner, NF ’78

Bonner was a reporter and editor at The Washington Post, a newsroom recruiter for Gannett, and has taught journalism at several universities My reporting career had barely begun when Bob…