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Lyons records this development in his book on the Nieman program, Reporting the News. Talking about the weekly Nieman dinners with leading journalists, he says, "Without the stimulus of these discussions, Nieman Reports would never have been born, nor would the remarkable esprit de corps of the Nieman Fellows have developed as it did, so that within a few seasons what began as an educational opportunity had become one of the prized distinctions in American journalism...
Were it not for Nieman Reports--perhaps the best publication of its kind--the Fellows might easily be confused with one of Harvard's Final Clubs. At a recent fund-raising dinner, the current class of Fellows and a long list of former ones got together for drinks, steak, St. Emilion, and after-dinner jokes. There the same strained conviviality, the same overly boisterous camaraderie that abounds at club punches and initiations...
Louis Lyons shaped the program into this fraternal institution; Dwight E. Sargent, his successor as Curator and editor of Nieman Reports, has made few changes. Sargent is a tightlipped, businesslike man, a different type entirely from his extroverted predecessor. A Nieman Fellow in 1950-51, he is a graduate of the editorial room, not th city desk; and his preoccupation with precision and organization betrays his background...
...fraternal complacency that has characterized some Nieman classes in the past is on the wane under Sargent's leadership. His quiet nature discourages the club atmosphere. But although he has diminished the inward focus of the Nieman program, he has not done much to enlarge the outward perspective...
Sargent continues to run the program much as Lyons did. He meets his day-to-day responsibility of arranging Nieman seminars, a major feature of the program since 1938, but he finds little time for innovations. He also spends several hours a day recruiting men and money for a $1.2 million Nieman fund drive now underway...