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Harvard Meets the Press

From the Nieman Foundation's 50th Anniversary: A Personal Account of the Early Nieman Years
September 11, 2013

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.…
June 24, 2013

The Year of Living Safely, Away from the Drug Wars of Mexico

Alfredo Corchado, who has covered Mexico for the Dallas Morning News since 1994, was interviewed at Lippmann House. Video from the interview is available. What was it like coming to…
June 13, 2013

The Year of Living Safely, Away from the Drug Wars of Mexico (Video Interview)

Dallas Morning News Mexico bureau chief Alfredo Corchado, NF ’09, recently sat down at Lippmann House to discuss his year as a fellow and his new book, “Midnight in Mexico.”An…
June 13, 2013

Truth or Consequences: Where is Watchdog Journalism Today?

Despite budget cuts and shrinking newsrooms, watchdog reporters are finding new ways to fulfill an old mission—holding those in power to account
June 13, 2013

Poetry: The News that Stays News

Poet and Harvard English professor Stephen Burt explores how familiar stories are made fresh again by the way we put them into words
June 13, 2013

Writing Naked: Donald Hall on Poetry and Metaphor in Journalism (Extended Transcript)

Donald Hall. Photo by Finbarr O’Reilly Donald Hall, former U.S. poet laureate, has lived at Eagle Pond Farm, with its white clapboard farmhouse and weathered barn, in Wilmot, New Hampshire, since…
June 13, 2013

Writing Naked: Donald Hall on Poetry and Metaphor in Journalism

Donald Hall. Photo by Finbarr O’ReillyDonald Hall, former U.S. poet laureate, has lived at Eagle Pond Farm, with its white clapboard farmhouse and weathered barn, in Wilmot, New Hampshire, since…
June 13, 2013

Journalism & the Boston Marathon Bombings

From left, David Beard, Cheryl Fiandaca, and Seth Mnookin, speaking at the Nieman Foundation on May 1. Photo by Jonathan Seitz“One of the things that’s happening with Twitter is the…
June 13, 2013

“The Story of a Lifetime”

Brian McGrory, 51, was named editor of The Boston Globe just four months before the Boston Marathon bombings captured the world’s attention. Ten days into that coverage, McGrory spoke with…
June 13, 2013