Harvard’s gates, on the screen
Its 75th anniversary is approaching next month, but the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard is looking ahead as well as back. It has just published its first complete e-book, a reading format that reflects journalism’s new horizons. “The Gates of Harvard Yard,” a handsome, 158-page exploration of Harvard Yard’s 25 access points, is officially available Tuesday. “Now that we have done this, it would be very hard to go back” and not publish e-books, said Nieman curator Ann Marie Lipinski. “I can absolutely imagine further iterations.” The e-book, available through iTunes, was assembled, edited, and co-written by Pulitzer Prize-winning arts journalist Blair Kamin, a 2013 Nieman Fellow who is now back at his day job as architecture critic at The Chicago Tribune. His co-writers included six Harvard undergraduates, two graduate students, a non-matriculating participant from Boston, and Nieman Fellow Jeneen Interlandi. The e-book underscores “Nieman’s desire to share the fruits of our fellowships with...