The best part of the Nieman experience was the personal growth that came from a new network of colleagues and friends in the larger Harvard community who have forever changed my world for the better. — Renee Ferguson, NF ‘07

Advisory Board

Officers
President: William O. Wheatley, Jr.
Retired executive vice president, NBC News (1977 Nieman Fellow)

Vice President: Lorie Conway
Documentary filmmaker and producer (1994 Nieman Fellow)

Secretary: Joseph L. Bower
Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Members
Cecilia Alvear
Independent multimedia producer. Former president, National Association of Hispanic Journalists and retired NBC Network News producer (1989 Nieman Fellow)

Rosental Alves
Professor & Knight Chair in Journalism & UNESCO Chair in Communication, University of Texas, Austin; Director, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (1988 Nieman Fellow)

H. Brandt Ayers
Chairman and publisher, The Anniston (Alabama) Star and Consolidated Publishing (1968 Nieman Fellow)

Roberta Baskin
Director, WJLA-TV’s I-Team (2002 Nieman Fellow)

Gregory Brock
Senior editor, The New York Times (1994 Nieman Fellow)

John Carroll
Former editor, Los Angeles Times and The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland (1972 Nieman Fellow)

Carolyn Curiel
Chief of staff to the president and clinical professor of communication, Purdue University

Thomas (Mac) Deford
Columnist, freepressonline.com

Jerelyn Eddings
Program Director, International Center for Journalists (1985 Nieman Fellow)

Mark Ethridge
President, Carolina Parenting Magazines (1986 Nieman Fellow)

Charles Ferguson
Retired editor, The Times-Picayune (1966 Nieman Fellow)

Katherine Fulton
President, Monitor Institute (1993 Nieman Fellow)

Sam Fulwood
Reporter, The Cleveland Plain Dealer (1994 Nieman Fellow)

Paula Fray
Regional director for Africa, Inter Press Service (2001 Nieman Fellow)

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Alphonse Fletcher University Professor; Director, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University

Gigi Georges
Partner, The Glover Park Group

Robert Giles
Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University (1966 Nieman Fellow)

Tim Golden
Senior Writer, The New York Times (1996 Nieman Fellow)

John Harwood
Chief Washington correspondent, CNBC, and political writer, The New York Times (1990 Nieman Fellow)

Sharon King Hoge
Media consultant

George Irish
President, Hearst Newspapers, and senior vice president, Hearst Corporation

Alex Jones
Director, Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy: Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer in the Press and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School (1982 Nieman Fellow)

Rami Khouri
Editor-at-large, The Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon; Director, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut (2002 Nieman Fellow)

Katie King
Editor, MSN UK (1994 Nieman Fellow)

Murrey Marder
Retired chief diplomatic correspondent, The Washington Post, and sponsor of the Nieman Watchdog Project, www.niemanwatchdog.org (1950 Nieman Fellow)

Lindsay M. Miller
Independent producer of print and broadcast (1988 Nieman Fellow)

Gregory Moore
Editor, The Denver Post

Tom Regan
Consultant and technology columnist, Online News Association (1992 Nieman Fellow)

Norman Robinson
News anchor/reporter, WDSU-TV (1989 Nieman Fellow)

John Seigenthaler
Founder, The First Amendment Center (1959 Nieman Fellow)

Michael Skoler
Executive Director, Center for Innovation in Journalism and the founder of Public Insight Journalism. Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media (1993 Nieman Fellow)

Lou Ureneck
Chair, Department of Journalism, Boston University’s School of Communications (1995 Nieman Fellow)