The Nieman Foundation, Harvard's midcareer program for journalists, received special recognition recently at the opening of the Freedom Forum Foundation's Newseum in Arlington, Va. The Newseum is the first museum devoted to the world's news media and is located just outside Washington, D.C., adjacent to the headquarters of the Freedom Forum Foundation.

The News History Wall of the Newseum features contributions to world journalism made by Lucius Nieman, whose bequest endowed the Nieman program, as well as contributions by 17 Nieman Fellows.

During a private tour of the facility for the 1997 Nieman Fellows, Peter Pritchard, executive director of the Newseum, said, "No other organization in the world has more representatives recognized in the Newseum's record of journalistic accomplishment."

The Niemans recognized and their affiliations at the time of

appointment as Nieman Fellows are:

Harry S. Ashmore, editor of the Arkansas Gazette, NF '42; Hodding Carter Jr., editor of the Delta (Miss.) Democrat-Times, NF '40; Maria Jimena Duzan, columnist El Espectador, Bogata, Colombia, NF '92; Tim Giago, editor-publisher, Indian Country Today, NF '91; Ellen Goodman, columnist, Boston Globe, NF '74; Bill Kovach, editor, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, NF '89; Ed Lahey, reporter, Chicago Daily News, NF '39; Anthony Lewis, reporter, Washington Times, NF '57; Peter Lisagor, Washington bureau chief, Chicago Daily News, NF '59; Catherine Mackin, correspondent, NBC-TV News, NF '68; Bob Maynard, editorial writer, Washington Post, NF '66; Jack Nelson, reporter, Atlanta Constitution, NF '62; Geneva Overholser, editor, Des Moines Register, NF '86; Eugene Roberts, reporter, Detroit Free Press, NF '62; John Seigenthaler, reporter, Nashville Tennessean, NF '59; Tom Wicker, reporter, Winston Salem Journal, NF '58; and William Worthy, reporter, Baltimore Afro-American, NF '57.

The News History Wall is an interactive wall of photographs,

artifacts, and displays of key events in the history of world journalism. The contributions of a total of 557 journalists are recognized in the display, illustrating the importance of the development of a free and independent world press.