Nieman Notes

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.…

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

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.…

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…

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, 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. 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,…

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

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

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…