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Article: The Nieman Foundation's Unfinished Business.(Brief Article)
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- Nieman Reports
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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On my first morning in Lippmann House. I was given a thick green folder with lots of information to be quickly absorbed. Inside was a memo from Bill Kovach addressed "To My Successor."
"You poor man," I thought. "You gave 10 years of your life to creatively enlarging and improving the Nieman program and on the day you retired you did not know the identity of your successor."
Bill's memo began, "Congratulations. You've just begun one of the greatest jobs in the world of journalism. As you know you've also inherited an important mandate--`to promote and elevate the standards of journalism'--at a crucial time in the history of journalism."
As I ...