Nieman 80 Clarence Jones, NF ’64 As a newspaper reporter, I looked down my nose at TV “talent” who called themselves journalists. My colleagues and I thought TV reporters were hired for their looks and their… September 20, 2018 Stan Grossfeld, NF ’92 I can close my eyes and still see the classic W. Eugene Smith portrait of the mother bathing her daughter who was deformed by mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan. It… September 20, 2018 Claudia Méndez Arriaza, NF ’12 When I read “Murder Comes for the Bishop” by Francisco Goldman, I was 22 and in my first year as a journalist. The criminal investigation and the trial following the… September 20, 2018 Edward Wong, NF ’18 and Jo Thomas, NF ’71 Edward Wong, NF ’18 Sometime in my 20s, when I was starting out as a reporter, I read two collections of Joan Didion’s early articles and essays. They changed the way… September 20, 2018 Alex S. Jones, NF ’82 It was the mid-’60s and I was in college and a guy I had never heard of—an alumnus of my college [Washington and Lee University] as it happened—was coming to… September 20, 2018 Jerrold Schecter, NF ’64 When “Khrushchev Remembers” first appeared in Life magazine and as a Little, Brown book, in 1970, about five years after he was ousted from power and forced to live 20… September 20, 2018 Anita Harris, NF ’82 A newly minted college grad, in 1970, I happened to catch a rerun of “Harvest of Shame” on TV while I was working on a study of hospital decision-making in… September 20, 2018 Mary Jordan, NF ’90 “Mrs. Kelly’s Monster” has never left me. “The heartbeat goes pop, pop, pop, 70 beats a minute.” In his December 12, 1978 article in The Baltimore Evening Sun, Jon Franklin… September 20, 2018 Mary Meehan, NF ’16 At the Kentucky Derby women wear ridiculously elaborate hats and heels they regret within the hour. The horses are sleek and strong and beautiful. And, bonus, there’s always bourbon. When Seattle… September 20, 2018 Chong-ae Lee, NF ’13 In 2001 I covered a story about an 8-year-old girl who had been raped by older boys in her neighborhood. It was then that I became aware how little I… September 20, 2018 Chong-ae Lee Previous 1 … 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next
