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Parsing Politics in China, Egypt, and an Orthodox Jewish Community

Harvard law professor Noah Feldman spoke to the 2014 Nieman Fellows about the intense scrutiny and criticism he faced after writing about his work in Tunisia and writing a personal…
Master of the Craft

Master of the Craft

Through his scrupulously researched books chronicling the rise to power of President Lyndon Johnson and New York urban planner Robert Moses, Robert A. Caro, NF ’66, set a new standard…
Command and Control

Command and Control

The Communist Party has long striven to control freedom of speech in China. Websites from around the world are blocked. Major social media cannot be accessed, and advanced software is…

Evan Osnos: The Challenges of Covering China

Evan Osnos, who covered China for eight years with the Chicago Tribune and The New Yorker, spoke about the difficulty of covering modern China in the 2013 Joe Alex Morris…
Clear and Present Danger

Clear and Present Danger

In the fall of 2013, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) quietly began booting up its Utah Data Center, a sprawling 1.5 million-square-foot facility designed to store and analyze the…
“Access Is Overrated”: The Extended Transcript

“Access Is Overrated”: The Extended Transcript

Before joining The New Yorker in 1995, Jane Mayer spent 12 years as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she was the paper’s first female White House correspondent.…

Winter 2014: Class Notes

Nieman Foundation curator Ann Marie Lipinski, NF ’90, welcomes attendees to the 75th anniversary dinner at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Photo by Lisa Abitbol Celebrating 75 yearsIn September, more…
Exploring Harvard's Gates

Exploring Harvard’s Gates

The wrought-iron decoration of the Class of 1881 Gate stands out in silhouette against the blazing white backdrop of Harvard’s neo-classical Littauer Center Students pass through the imposing Class of…
Season of Dreams

Season of Dreams

Winter is Nieman’s season of dreams. The applications pour in from elite newsrooms and single-person startups, from G8 nations and nearly invisible economies. Most of the international files arrive electronically,…
Mother of Invention

Mother of Invention

As she lay dying, the widow of a Milwaukee newspaper editor made a gift that has now invigorated journalism for 75 years. Agnes Wahl Nieman, a well-educated woman with a…