Nieman Notes

“Seven Days” That Shook Canada

“Seven Days” That Shook Canada

Read Leiterman’s obituary in The Globe and Mail Douglas Leiterman, NF ’54, an acclaimed journalist in Canada, died on December 13, 2012 at his winter home in Vero Beach, Florida.…
Mandela’s Humility

Mandela’s Humility

Pippa Green, NF ’99, recalls the man who shunned pomp

Spring 2013: Class Notes

1954Harold M. Schmeck, Jr., a New York Times science writer who specialized in covering medical research, died of a heart attack in Hyannis, Massachusetts on April 1st. He was 89.…

The Legacy of Pulitzer Prize Winner Anthony Lewis, covering “a Dark and Ominous Time”

Read Anthony Lewis’s obituary in the New York Times.Anthony Lewis, NF ’57, died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 25, 2013. He was 85. As a reporter for…

Pulitzer Prize Winner Stanley Forman on Covering Fires in Boston from “the Other Side of the Tape”

Photo by Stanley FormanStanley Forman, NF ’80, a former staff photographer for the Boston Herald American, is now a cameraman for WCVB News in Boston. This photograph, taken in 1977,…

Murrey Marder, Pathfinder

Murrey Marder, a former Washington Post reporter and founder of the Nieman Watchdog Project, died on March 11, 2013, at age 93. Former Nieman Curator Bill Kovach, NF ’89, reflects…

Grady Clay on the Future of Journalism and Cities: “No One Can Stay in the Center”

Grady Clay. Photo by John NationGrady Clay, NF ’49, an urban affairs specialist who was a reporter and editor for The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal and editor of Landscape Architecture Quarterly,…
“They Promised to Take Our Land, and They Took It”

“They Promised to Take Our Land, and They Took It”

Steve Northup, NF ’74, is a former staff photographer for United Press International, The Washington Post, and Time magazine. This photograph, taken in 1972, is currently on display at the…
Bolivia by Bus

Bolivia by Bus

How Raul Peñaranda, NF ’08, and his daily newspaper went off the map to rediscover their own country

From Twitter to Gellhorn via Mexico

Three Nieman Visiting Fellows undertake diverse short-term projects during 2013