You have no bosses, no deadlines, no pressures. The country’s greatest university says come for an academic year, we like you, and study whatever you want. Broaden your horizons, stretch your mind. <strong>Nieman</strong> Curator Howard Simons - 1989 2009 <strong>Nieman</strong> Fellows and affiliates during orientation, September 2008
Top photo: <strong>Nieman</strong> board members at Lippmann House in November 2007. Front row, from left: Mark Carter (Stepped down in 2008. He will be succeeded by Sam Fulwood, NF ’94, a reporter with The Cleveland Plain Dealer.), Roberta Baskin, Joseph Bower (Secretary), Bill Wheatley (President), Bob Giles, (Curator), Rosental Alves, Cecilia Alvear, Lorie Conway (Vice President), John Carroll. Back row, from left: Charles Shepard, Michael Skoler, Lindsay Miller, Rami Khouri, Murrey Marder, Sharon King Hoge, Charles Ferguson, Gregory Brock, Alex Jones, Katie King, Tim Golden, John Harwood. Photos of board members below, clockwise from left: Greg Brock chats with Sharon King Hoge; Michael Skoler; Alex Jones (left) and John Carroll; Katie King 32 N I E M A N A D V I S O RY B O A R D OFFICERS President: William O. Wheatley Jr., NF ’77 Retired Executive Vice President, NBC News Vice President: Lorie Conway, NF ’94 Documentary Filmmaker and Producer Secretary: Joseph L. Bower Baker <strong>Foundation</strong> Professor of Business Administration, <strong>Harvard</strong> Business School BOARD MEMBERS Cecilia Alvear, NF ’89, Executive Committee Member Independent Multimedia Producer. Former President, National Association of Hispanic Journalists and retired NBC Network News Producer Rosental Alves, NF ’88 Professor and Knight Chair in Journalism and UNESCO Chair in Communication; <strong>University</strong> of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism; Director, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas H. Brandt Ayers, NF ’68 Chairman and Publisher of The Anniston Star and Consolidated Publishing Roberta Baskin, NF ’02, Executive Committee Member Director, WJLA-TV’s I-Team Gregory E. Brock, NF ’94 Senior Editor, The New York Times John Carroll, NF ’72 Former Editor, Los Angeles Times and The Sun, Baltimore, Maryland Mark Carter, NF ’95 Executive Director, Committee of Concerned Journalists