Article: GILES NAMED CURATOR OF NIEMAN FOUNDATION

New Nieman Foundation curator Robert Giles said yesterday that he intends to build on his predecessor Bill Kovach's "wonderful efforts to elevate the standards of journalism" as he takes the reins at the nation's most prestigious journalism fellowship program.

Giles, 67, a senior vice president at the Freedom Forum, was named curator yesterday. The announcement by Harvard University followed a bruising process that included a lobbying campaign by unions angered by what they described as Giles's divisive role in the Detroit newspaper strike when he was editor and publisher of The Detroit News. Giles supporters, including ...

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