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Also stepping down--for personal reasons--was James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman Foundation, which brings mid-career journalists to Harvard for a year of study. Thomson takes much of the credit for bringing increased numbers of women and minorities into the program in his 12 years on the job, though in his last four years, sniping could be heard from alumni of the program who had problems with his style of administration. His reported replacement: Washington Post managing editor Howard Simons...
...Nieman Foundation for Journalism established the Morris Lectureship in 1981 to honor the Los Angeles Times correspondent, who was killed in Tehran covering the Iranian revolution in 1979. The lectureship brings an American overseas correspondent or foreign affairs commentator to speak at Harvard each year...
...will meet with current Nieman fellows and creators of the Morris Lectureship this evening...
Dalia Shehori, on leave from the Israeli newspaper Al-Hamishmar, is a Nieman fellow...
This year a Nieman fellow at Harvard, the Newsday reporter adds that "a disturbing number of athletes fail to prepare for careers away from the field," concluding that "salaries aside, professional Black athletes with incomplete educations suffer the same problems as Blacks in America...