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...journalists at Harvard has carried high prestige. Nieman fellowships offered newsmen an academic year of leisured study and exposure to prominent people with provocative viewpoints. More recently, however, some Nieman fellows have been critical of Dwight Sargent, 55, a former editorial-page editor for the old New York Herald Tribune, who has been the Nieman curator since 1964. Under Sargent, it is said, the program has lacked the verve it had under the 25-year leadership of Louis Lyons. Now Sargent has resigned, and will be replaced in September by James Thomson, 40, Harvard history lecturer and a perceptive Asian...
...Herald Traveler will print its last issue on June 18. The author of this obituary, a former Crimson editor, spent a year there as a reporter...
...SCORNS APRIL, LAUDS MAY" was a headline that a copy editor attached to a weather story I wrote once during the year, two years ago, that I worked for the Boston Herald Traveler. It is a real headline; an example of the Herald at its most Herald-like. It was quite a newspaper...
...first got to know the Herald well in 1969 when it offered me a reporter's job. The offer came like magic--through a telegram in my mailbox--and it was attractive. From the words of the Publisher's Assistant who made the offer, it sounded as if the stodgy, old, provincial Herald was about to make a run for real success...
...appointed day I showed up at the Herald Traveler plant in the South End and was introduced to the Shop Steward of the American Newspaper Guild and to the City Editor. Then I was given directions to the men's room and to the copy paper cabinet, advice on how to use a telephone headset and was placed at an old green desk not far from the tables, phonebooks, radios, tvs, and telephones called the City Desk. It was very quiet in there that Sunday afternoon. I was putting all my new toys away and was wondering to whom...