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Article: NIEMAN FOUNDATION NAMES BILL KOVACH CURATOR
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 2, 1989
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Bill Kovach, the former editor of the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution who quit in protest over differences with top
management, yesterday was named curator of Harvard University's
prestigious Nieman Foundation.
Kovach, 56, succeeds Howard Simons, former managing editor of
the Washington Post, who died of cancer in June after serving as
curator for five years. Kovach, a former Nieman fellow himself, has
been acting curator since that time.
Each year the Nieman Foundation offers 21 American and foreign
journalists a chance to study tuition-free at Harvard. The curator
oversees the program, chooses the committee that selects fellows,
puts out the quarterly Nieman Reports publication and ...