Ann Marie Lipinski
@amlwhere.bsky.social
Journalist. Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Nieman Nation for life. Give me all the pencils.
This is a Chicago Sun-Times photo of federal immigration agents marching through downtown Chicago Sunday. A top border agent told a reporter they were making arrests based on “how they look.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
September 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is a Chicago Sun-Times photo of federal immigration agents marching through downtown Chicago Sunday. A top border agent told a reporter they were making arrests based on “how they look.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
This won’t end with talk show hosts.
September 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This won’t end with talk show hosts.
I was last in Little Rock two years ago for Brent Renaud’s funeral. This visit, his hometown turned out to celebrate an HBO documentary and foundation honoring the life and work of the journalist, the first American killed in the war on Ukraine.
September 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I was last in Little Rock two years ago for Brent Renaud’s funeral. This visit, his hometown turned out to celebrate an HBO documentary and foundation honoring the life and work of the journalist, the first American killed in the war on Ukraine.
The Arkansas black apple isn’t common in Cambridge, Mass., but Brent Renaud wasn’t common either. I worried about the little sapling, thin like Brent and planted in his honor in the Nieman Foundation garden. But today I checked on the tree and was rewarded with these two tiny apples. Proof of life.
June 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The Arkansas black apple isn’t common in Cambridge, Mass., but Brent Renaud wasn’t common either. I worried about the little sapling, thin like Brent and planted in his honor in the Nieman Foundation garden. But today I checked on the tree and was rewarded with these two tiny apples. Proof of life.
Photo of students and Nazi party members at a 1933 book burning outside the University of Berlin. How universities die: It happened in Berlin and Beijing. Is Boston next? By William Kirby.
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June 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Photo of students and Nazi party members at a 1933 book burning outside the University of Berlin. How universities die: It happened in Berlin and Beijing. Is Boston next? By William Kirby.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/01/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/01/o...
And throughout it all, Sasha—the Harvard police department’s beloved campus comfort pup—was a very good girl.
May 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
And throughout it all, Sasha—the Harvard police department’s beloved campus comfort pup—was a very good girl.
Physician & author Abraham Verghese on giving the commencement speech: “When legal immigrants and others who are lawfully in this country, including so many of your international students, worry about being wrongly detained and deported, perhaps it’s fitting that you hear from an immigrant like me.”
May 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Physician & author Abraham Verghese on giving the commencement speech: “When legal immigrants and others who are lawfully in this country, including so many of your international students, worry about being wrongly detained and deported, perhaps it’s fitting that you hear from an immigrant like me.”
Rita Moreno cried as Harvard student Carolyn Hao sang “Somewhere” in her honor, then joined Hao in harmony on the last note. (Overhead from a graduating student: “Did you hear that lyric, ‘We’ll find a new way of living? We’ll find a way of forgiving, somewhere?’ Someone knows what’s up.”)
May 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Rita Moreno cried as Harvard student Carolyn Hao sang “Somewhere” in her honor, then joined Hao in harmony on the last note. (Overhead from a graduating student: “Did you hear that lyric, ‘We’ll find a new way of living? We’ll find a way of forgiving, somewhere?’ Someone knows what’s up.”)
President Garber and provost John Manning with Harvard’s honorary degree recipients, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, about whom Garber said, “The arc of his skyhook is long but it bends toward justice.”
May 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
President Garber and provost John Manning with Harvard’s honorary degree recipients, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, about whom Garber said, “The arc of his skyhook is long but it bends toward justice.”
First Gen students, military veteran students, Jewish students…a Harvard story behind each of these stoles.
May 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
First Gen students, military veteran students, Jewish students…a Harvard story behind each of these stoles.
In a sea of parents with their cameras out, a touching moment of a student pausing the procession to take a photo of her family.
May 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
In a sea of parents with their cameras out, a touching moment of a student pausing the procession to take a photo of her family.
Graduates of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government tossed inflatables printed with a world map. A speaker from the graduate school said her 77 classmates came from 32 countries. “Countries I knew only as shapes on a map have turned into real people.”
May 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Graduates of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government tossed inflatables printed with a world map. A speaker from the graduate school said her 77 classmates came from 32 countries. “Countries I knew only as shapes on a map have turned into real people.”
Scenes from a commencement:
With one word—“Welcome”—Harvard President Alan Garber drew a loud ovation from 30,000 graduating students, parents, alumni and others. When he welcomed “students from around the world, just as it should be,” the applause was thunderous.
With one word—“Welcome”—Harvard President Alan Garber drew a loud ovation from 30,000 graduating students, parents, alumni and others. When he welcomed “students from around the world, just as it should be,” the applause was thunderous.
May 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Scenes from a commencement:
With one word—“Welcome”—Harvard President Alan Garber drew a loud ovation from 30,000 graduating students, parents, alumni and others. When he welcomed “students from around the world, just as it should be,” the applause was thunderous.
With one word—“Welcome”—Harvard President Alan Garber drew a loud ovation from 30,000 graduating students, parents, alumni and others. When he welcomed “students from around the world, just as it should be,” the applause was thunderous.
Classmates of Brent Renaud, the gifted journalist killed in Ukraine, planted this tree in the @niemanfoundation.bsky.social garden. It’s an Arkansas black apple from Brent’s home state & I worried whether the spindly specimen could thrive here. This week it bloomed spectacularly. Of course it did.
May 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Classmates of Brent Renaud, the gifted journalist killed in Ukraine, planted this tree in the @niemanfoundation.bsky.social garden. It’s an Arkansas black apple from Brent’s home state & I worried whether the spindly specimen could thrive here. This week it bloomed spectacularly. Of course it did.
Cambridge spring. Even the houses are in bloom.
April 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Cambridge spring. Even the houses are in bloom.
“Government actions in recent weeks have sown fear & stress in our community, particularly among our international students at a time when they should be focused on studies in the final days of the semester…We are dedicated to supporting our international students…” Email today to Harvard community
April 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“Government actions in recent weeks have sown fear & stress in our community, particularly among our international students at a time when they should be focused on studies in the final days of the semester…We are dedicated to supporting our international students…” Email today to Harvard community
Prominent Vietnamese author and Nieman Fellow Truong Huy San sentenced to 30 months in prison for “abusing democratic freedoms” by posting news and commentary on Facebook. This conviction effectively criminalizes journalism.
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www.rfa.org/english/viet...
February 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Prominent Vietnamese author and Nieman Fellow Truong Huy San sentenced to 30 months in prison for “abusing democratic freedoms” by posting news and commentary on Facebook. This conviction effectively criminalizes journalism.
www.rfa.org/english/viet...
www.rfa.org/english/viet...
Reminder to US journalists: midnight today is the deadline for Nieman Fellow applications. You can do this. nieman.harvard.edu/fellowships/...
January 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Reminder to US journalists: midnight today is the deadline for Nieman Fellow applications. You can do this. nieman.harvard.edu/fellowships/...