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Lolly Bowean, NF ’17

Lolly Bowean, NF ’17

In her illustrious, richly crafted book “The Warmth of Other Suns,” Isabel Wilkerson brilliantly shows the journey that many African-Americans embarked on during the Great Migration. But it’s another Wilkerson…
Re-examining Lippmann's Legacy

Re-examining Lippmann’s Legacy

Journalists are still grappling with many of the issues that defined Walter Lippmann’s extraordinary career
Edward Wong, NF ’18 and Jo Thomas, NF ’71

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…
Alex S. Jones, NF ’82

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…
Steve Oney, NF ’82

Steve Oney, NF ’82

One of the eternal struggles for journalists is between the need to belong to something bigger than themselves and the urge for independence. Nearly every reporter hopes to be part…
A Global Curriculum That Has Shaped Generations of Journalists

A Global Curriculum That Has Shaped Generations of Journalists

Nieman Fellows reflect on the journalism that left an indelible mark on them
“… Go to War I Did, and at Considerable Trouble”

“… Go to War I Did, and at Considerable Trouble”

Associated Press correspondent Ruth Cowan fought generals and editors to become one of the first women credentialed to cover World War II
“The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis of journalism”

“The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis of journalism”

What Walter Lippmann’s early writings say about some of journalism’s most urgent contemporary challenges

“Harvard Helped Form Lippmann’s Mind”

It would be no surprise to be told that young Walter Lippmann conquered Harvard, conquered its challenges with his intelligence, ambition and wide-ranging curiosity. That one would expect. But he was…
Where Does Journalism End and Activism Begin?

Where Does Journalism End and Activism Begin?

The polarized political moment raises fresh questions in newsrooms about the line between reporting and advocacy