Features Harvard’s House of Blues Legendary blues guitarist B.B. King told Nieman Fellows about his hardscrabble beginnings and played for them one afternoon at Lippmann House back in the fall of 1980. That visit came… October 14, 2014 Charles Sawyer 5 Questions for Jill Abramson, former editor of The New York Times Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson is currently teaching narrative nonfiction at Harvard, where she received her undergraduate degree in 1976. She was an investigative reporter and deputy… October 6, 2014 5 Questions for Boston Globe Editor Brian McGrory Brian McGrory, who has been a White House correspondent, columnist, and a deputy managing editor during his 25 years at The Boston Globe, has been editor of the paper since… September 24, 2014 Plus ça change… Of all the papers and newsmagazines in France, one in particular should have been well prepared for the challenges of this digital era: Libération. With its witty headlines, striking photo… September 11, 2014 Peter Gumbel It’s Good to Talk Members of Cuba’s mass media, which is completely in the hands of the state, cover only what’s convenient for the government. Because of that, in February of 2009, a group… September 11, 2014 Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez “Thick Files and a Long Memory” Henry Constantin was a 22-year-old journalism student at a Cuban university in 2006 when he proposed a thesis critical of the country’s brand of reporting. He was promptly kicked out… September 11, 2014 Juan O. Tamayo Facts, Not Opinions As recently as 2008, it was illegal for Cubans to own a cell phone and impossible for them to buy a computer. No independent journalist had a mobile device, and… September 11, 2014 Hugo A. Landa Island in the Storm In Cuba, it’s called “D-Day”—that hypothetical future date on which the Castro regime falls. D-Day is a date long-awaited by broad sectors of the population, the Cuban diaspora, media outlets… September 11, 2014 Yoani Sánchez Quiet Human Moments Amidst Great Strife Many years ago, I asked Anja to show me her favorite picture, the one she liked the most. The photo she sent showed an elegant older man sitting on the… July 15, 2014 Kathleen Carroll “A Sense of Exhilaration and Possibility” In December of 2011, Turkish military jets bombed the village of Uludere, about five miles from the border with Iraq, killing 34. Was the attack a tragic mistake or a… July 15, 2014 Engin Onder Previous 1 … 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 … 60 Next
