For Square Businesses, Rolling Stone Cover Presents Tricky Decision

CVS and Out of Town News will not shelve the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone Magazine, which has sparked controversy for its cover photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The Coop, citing concerns about "bad precedent," plans to sell the issue.

Nieman Foundation Names Class of 2014 Fellows

The Nieman Foundation of Journalism has named 24 journalists from across the globe to the 2013-2014 class of Nieman Fellows, who will take temporary leaves from their journalism careers to study at Harvard.

Callie Crossley (left) and Soledad M. O’Brien ’00 talk about the journalistic correspondence of the Boston bombing and O’Brien’s family background at a John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.

Journalist Soledad O'Brien Reflects on Race Relations Coverage

Award-winning broadcast journalist Soledad M. O’Brien ’88-’00 visited the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on Thursday for a discussion on her career and experiences in journalism.

Seth Mnookin details his experience listening to the Boston Police Scanner after hearing about the death of Officer Sean Collier throughout the night until 6 am in Watertown. As a Graduate Student at MIT studying Scientific Writing, he was an active tweeter logging the event for the New Yorker.

Today in Photos (05/01/13)

Today in Photos (05/01/13)

Nieman Fellow David Abel chronicles his experience at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, where he was filming a documentary, during a panel at the Nieman Foundation on Wednesday evening. Initially, he thought the first explosion 10 feet away from him was a system malfunction; but after the second bomb, just like when the second plane hit the Second Tower, he knew it was an attack.

Former CNN Anchor Soledad O'Brien Named Visiting Fellow at Ed School

In honor of her efforts to expand educational opportunities, the Harvard Graduate School of Education announced yesterday that journalist and television anchor Soledad O’Brien ’88-’00 will be a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the school for the 2013-2014 academic year.

"Living Compassion" Conversation Discusses Altruism in Everyday Life

Harvard affiliates discussed compassion and altruism and how the concepts apply to everyday life Thursday evening at Gutman Library during the third event in a series of panel-style conversations called “Living Compassion.”

Covering Islam: Telling Muslims' Stories in Photos, Words, and Video

Professor Ali Asani, photojournalist Karim B. Khelifa, NY Times columnist Souad Mekhennet, and multimedia journalist Alexandra Gracia engages in a discussion about Islam in news media. They talk about topics ranging from the participation of Muslim journalists in the media to Islamophobia in the US.

Anthony Lewis ’48, Pulitzer Winner and Crimson Mentor, Dies at 85

Starting in 1946—when he helped relaunch The Crimson as a daily after World War II—through a long career as a Pulitzer Prize-winning legal correspondent and columnist for the New York Times, until his death Monday at the age of 85, J. Anthony Lewis ’48 helped steer modern liberal journalism through his pioneering coverage of the Supreme Court and coached some of The Crimson’s brightest stars.

Nicholas D. Kristof, columnist for The New York Times, discusses the challenges of journalism as an industry and an social tool on Tuesday at the Institute of Politics.

Nicholas Kristof Awarded Goldsmith Career Award

New York Times columnist and former Crimson news editor Nicholas D. Kristof ’81 described what he sees as the three major challenges in the field of journalism Tuesday night after accepting the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at the Harvard Kennedy School’s John F. Kennedy Jr. forum.

The Week in Preview: March 3-8

We've rounded up some of this coming week's most noteworthy events. Check them out and then check The Crimson for coverage the next day.

Remedying 'Social Evil' and 'Guilty' Liberal Journalists

Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past.

Revolutionary Photojournalism

At Lesley University last Wednesday, three journalists discussed the risks and rewards of working in turbulent Arab countries.

HKS Announces Spring Shorenstein Fellows

CNN political reporter Peter Hamby, former TIME Inc. editor-in-chief John Huey, and four other prominent figures in journalism and politics will spend the semester on campus as spring fellows at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, the Kennedy School announced Monday.

IOP To Host Jon Huntsman, John King This Spring

The Institute of Politics announced on Thursday a spring roster of residential and visiting fellows that includes prominent politicians, journalists, and political advisors.

Paul Salopek

Journalist Paul Salopek describes the importance of walking at the Out of Eden talk in the Barker Center. He plans to walk approximately 21,00 miles as he retraces the original path of humans out of Africa.

At Harvard, We Call It a Clowning Concentration

They say you always remember your first time.

Parker Lectures on Journalism and Social Change

The social tensions caused by existing injustices in the world ultimately serve as strong inspiration for journalists, Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Richard Parker said Wednesday.

Economist Richard Parker gives tips to future journalists on how to make their work heard. His career in journalism began as an economic reviewer for the New York Times.

Anne-Marie Slaughter speaks on the balance between open and closed media. Once a professor at Harvard Law School, she is now the Bert G. Kerstetter University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Overexposed in Austin

On the highway later, I looked down at the odometer: 85 m.p.h. It didn’t feel all that fast. It was the landscape’s lack of landmarks.

Early Computers at Harvard—and 40 Years Later, at The Crimson

Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past.