Nieman Notes

1962Sebastiaan Kleu, a South African editor and economist, died of heart failure on October 11th. He was 85.Kleu began his career in journalism on the editorial board of the Afrikaans-language…

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, NF ’57, remembers Stanley Karnow, NF ’58

Dan Wakefield, NF ’64, edited and annotated the recently published “Kurt Vonnegut: Letters.” Here he reflects on first meeting Vonnegut during his Nieman year and the impact the resulting friendship…

Dave McNeely, NF ’76, on the Emmy Award-winning Larry L. King, NF ’70, co-writer of the hit Broadway musical “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”

1946Robert Manning, an influential editor of The Atlantic Monthly, died of lymphoma at a hospital in Boston on September 28th. He was 92.Read his obituary from The Boston Globe.Manning was…

From left, prize winners Daniel J. Sharfstein, Jonathan M. Katz, and Sophia Rosenfeld. Jonathan Alter, right, is chairman of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Committee. Photo by Lisa Abitbol.J.…

An interview with Taylor Award Winner J. Andrew Curliss

Every year the Nieman Foundation awards a portfolio of prizes. The winners of three major awards were celebrated this spring.

1942Thomas Sancton, a Southern journalist who wrote articles in the 1940s advocating for racial justice, died at a nursing home in New Orleans on April 6th. He was 97.Read his…

When J. Andrew Curliss investigated a district attorney, she attacked his work and his paper. Photo by Lisa Abitbol.To say that the subject of reporter J. Andrew Curliss’s three-part series…