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...memorial lectureship honoring Joe Alex Morris Jr. '49. a journalist killed while covering the Iranian revolution in 1979, has been established by Harvard's Neiman Foundation for Journalism...
...purpose of the lectureship is to bring a foreign correspondent who can offer a different perspective to the Nieman fellows and the larger audience at Harvard," Tenney Barbara K. Lehman, executive director of the Neiman Foundation, said yesterday. She added that the fund establishes the first memorial lectureship sponsored by the Nieman Foundation...
Scheduled to begin in the spring of 1982, the lectureship will be awarded to an American overseas correspondent or media commentator on foreign affairs by the Nieman Foundation, in consultation with each year's class of Nieman fellows. The recipient will spend three days at Harvard meeting with the fellows and other groups at Harvard...
Daphne B. Noyes, a staff assistant for the Nieman Foundation, said the lectureship was the result of efforts begun by Richard B. Stone '49, a classmate of Morris', and Morris' father, Joe Alex Morris Sr. Donations from the Morris family are being augmented by gifts from Morris' Harvard classmates and journalist colleagues...
...lectureship and Institute are named for the late sociologist William E. B. DuBois, a Black civil rights leader of the 20th century, who died in 1960 after joining the Communist party and renouncing his U.S. citizenship. DuBois earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1895 and helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...