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Writing in the Spring 1989 issue of Nieman Reports, Louis M. Lyons, NF ’39, explained the weekly seminar series added during his Nieman yearThe dinner guests [curator Archibald] MacLeish coaxed…

Click to view larger Kenneth Freed, NF ’78, remembers the refurbishment of Lippmann HouseWhen the Class of  ’78 arrived in Cambridge, the conversion of what had been a decade-long derelict faux…

Jonathan Seitz, Nieman Reports researcher/reporter, chronicles the fortunes of the “Santa Clara Hawk” To a first-time visitor, the statue of a hawk in front of the Nieman Foundation may seem…

Lois Fiore, hired in 1973 as assistant to curator James C. Thomson Jr., recalls the origins of the SoundingOne of the things we told the Fellows—and, I’m sure, still do—is…

Joshua Benton, NF ’08, recounts the origins of the Nieman Journalism LabBy the time I applied for a Nieman in 2007, the changes in America’s newsrooms were too real to…

Harvard president Conant suggested the Nieman gift be used to fund fellowshipsAt a dinner celebrating Louis M. Lyons’s 20th anniversary as curator in 1960, former Harvard president James B. Conant…

Photo by Todd Wiseman“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” These words, from the…

Photo by Eden BrackstoneI am not a journalist. I’m a digital guy. I am well versed in the trends of newspapers’ decline, but at the age of 35 I’ve never…

Photo by Douglas SondersThere’s an energy to big, busy newsrooms that’s unlike any other. Reporters and editors tapping away on keyboards, muttering through copy, interviews taking place, police scanners crackling,…

The battle raged over 29 words.In 1999, the Chicago Tribune published a five-part series, “Trial and Error,” that for the first time documented the incidence of prosecutorial misconduct nationally. One…