75th Anniversary

Mike Pride, NF ’85

Mike Pride, NF ’85

For more than 30 years, Pride edited the Concord (N.H.) Monitor Zwelakhe Sisulu, my 1985 Nieman classmate, and curator Howard Simons changed my life. Zwelakhe, the South African in our…
Geneva Overholser, NF ’86

Geneva Overholser, NF ’86

In 1991, The Des Moines Register’s series about a rape victim won a Pulitzer for Public Service. The subject of the series, Nancy Ziegenmeyer, decided to go public after reading…

Lorie Hearn, NF ’95

To keep pace with the changing economics of newspapers, Hearn turned the San Diego Union-Tribune’s investigative unit she led into a nonprofit We obsessed over the future of journalism in…
Gene Roberts, NF ’62

Gene Roberts, NF ’62

Roberts worked as a reporter in North Carolina before becoming the chief Southern and civil rights correspondent for The New York Times after his Nieman year. He is co-author of…
Ellen Goodman, Patricia O'Brien, NF ’74

Ellen Goodman, Patricia O’Brien, NF ’74

Through her syndicated column, Goodman brought her feminist concerns to newspapers across the nation. O’Brien, a longtime political reporter, drew on her old beat when she started writing novels Until…