Garrett Graff '03 Appointed Editor of The Washingtonian
Garrett M. Graff ’03, a former Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow of Harvard Magazine, has been appointed editor of The Washingtonian—only the third individual to hold that post in the magazine’s 44-year...
View ArticleChristiane Amanpour to Speak at Class Day
The Class Day speaker for 2010 will be CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, the administration and the Senior Class Committee announced today. Harvard College seniors’ class day will fall on Wednesday, May 26,...
View ArticleAir Afghanistan
In many ways, Afghanistan’s outlook is grim. The war with the Taliban drags into its tenth year, and is merely the latest episode of what can sometimes seem like a history of war interrupted by...
View ArticleFrom the Blog Cave
On BloggingA blog is not so much daily writing as hourly writing. And with that level of timeliness, the provisionality of every word is even more pressing—and the risk of error or the thrill of...
View ArticleWorld’s Best Blogger?
It was noon in Washington, D.C., when the shooting began in Tucson. Across the country, reporters and media executives rushed to cover the story of the gunman, the Congresswoman he shot at close range,...
View ArticleNew Curator Named for Nieman Foundation
Provost Steven E. Hymanannounced today that Ann Marie Lipinski will become curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, succeeding Bob Giles, who announced his plans to retire last fall. Lipinski,...
View ArticleJournalists Tim Noah and E. J. Dionne Jr. Win Hillman Prizes
The Sidney Hillman Foundation, which confers annual prizes for investigative journalism and public-interest reporting, gave its 2011 prize for magazine journalism to Tim Noah ’80, of Slate, for a...
View ArticleJill Abramson ’76 Named Executive Editor of New York Times
Jill Abramson ’76 has been named executive editor of the New York Times, the newspaper announced today—the first woman to hold the top editorial post. She has been managing editor since 2003—one of two...
View ArticleThe Pioneering Crimson Women at the New York Times
With the appointment of Jill Abramson ’76 as executive editor of the New York Times—the first time a woman has held that senior post—it is timely to revisit “Women of the Times: Radcliffe Rampant at...
View ArticleA Singular Woman’s Biographer
It was in March 2008, while working at the New York Times, that Janny Scott ’77 first encountered Stanley Ann Dunham. As part of the paper’s presidential campaign coverage, Scott had been assigned to...
View ArticleDon’t Edit My Broken-ness
The newspaper I internshiped, the Riviera Times in Nice, required I translate French for English. My English was fine, but hurdles challenged my French vernacular. When I spoke with accent or wrong...
View ArticleMeta-journalism
For most of the twentieth century, newspapers were a relatively stable industry. Many operated essentially as local monopolies, so just standing pat they could make lots of money—e.g., a 20 to 30...
View ArticleWriting through the Haze
There is an ebb and flow to working for a small paper. Due to a lack of universal name recognition or high-ranking contacts, very little news will come in on some days—no one to interview, no local...
View ArticleThe Olympics, via Powers
If John Powers’70 of the Boston Globe is not the dean of Olympics sportswriters, he is at least decanal. Powers, who honed his craft on the sports beat at the Harvard Crimson, has reported on the...
View ArticleVita: Warren Brookes
In an address at Moscow State University, President Ronald Reagan described how information technology was rapidly transforming industrial societies. As if from “a chrysalis,” the world was emerging...
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