75th Anniversary

Doug Marlette, NF ’81

Doug Marlette, NF ’81

Creator of the syndicated “Kudzu” comic strip, Marlette won a Pulitzer for editorial cartoons he drew for The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution When Doug Marlette (1949–2007) returned…

David Skok, NF ’12

Skok, director of Globalnews.ca, arrived at Harvard to explore ways to make journalism sustainable The professor slowly walked to the center of the amphitheatre, sat on the edge of the…
Gene Weingarten, NF ’88

Gene Weingarten, NF ’88

One of Weingarten’s two Pulitzers for feature writing was for a story about parents who accidentally kill their children by forgetting them in cars. He writes a syndicated humor column…

Katie King, NF ’94

In 1994, King launched Reuters’s first daily multimedia publication, “What on Earth,” a joint venture with cable TV company Tele-Communications, Inc. Twenty years ago when I started my Nieman year,…

Rosental Calmon Alves, NF ’88

Alves holds the Knight Chair in International Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He arrived in academia after more than a decade as a foreign correspondentI came to…
Jerome Aumente, NF ’68

Jerome Aumente, NF ’68

Founding director of the Journalism Resources Institute at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, Aumente trains journalists around the world I arrived at Harvard University in 1967, emotionally and…

H.Y. Sharada Prasad, ’56

Prasad (1924–2008), a longtime spokesman for Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv, was a news editor for The Indian Express in Bombay, India Our father spoke often of his Nieman…
Robert Drew, NF ’55

Robert Drew, NF ’55

A pioneer of cinéma vérité, Drew in 1960 used portable sound and film equipment he helped develop to produce “Primary.” For that documentary, Drew was granted round-the-clock access to presidential…

Hong Qu, NF ’13

A member of the startup team that built YouTube, Qu uses his technical knowledge to develop tools for journalists My visiting Fellowship at the Nieman Foundation recalibrated my career. I…
Tim Giago, NF ’91

Tim Giago, NF ’91

Giago founded the Lakota Times (now Indian Country Today), the first independently owned Native American newspaper in the U.S. I first entered Walter Lippmann House filled with fear and anticipation.…