Kathleen Carroll, executive editor and senior vice president of The Associated Press, presented the 35th Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture on Dec. 1, 2016. Carroll is the top news executive of the world’s largest independent news agency, a role she has held since 2002. She is responsible for news content in all formats from the journalists based in more than 260 bureaus and 110 countries. As an industry leader, she has worked on government challenges to press freedom and on vital security issues for journalists in war zones and other hostile environments.
The annual lecture honors an American overseas correspondent or commentator on foreign affairs.
Photojournalist Lynsey Addario delivered the 36th Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism on Jan. 18, 2018. Addario covers important news and feature stories around the globe and regularly works for The New York Times, National Geographic and Time magazine. Since September 11, 2001, she has reported on conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Darfur, South Sudan and Congo. She also photographs feature stories on humanitarian and human rights issues across the Middle East, South Asia and Africa, with a specific focus on women’s issues.
The annual lecture honors an American overseas correspondent or commentator on foreign affairs.
Tyler Hicks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior photographer for The New York Times, delivered the 34th Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on Nov. 6, 2014.
C. J. Chivers, senior writer for The New York Times, delivered the 32nd Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on Nov. 29, 2012. The annual Morris Lecture honors an American overseas correspondent or commentator on foreign affairs who is invited to Harvard to speak about international reporting.
At The Times, Chivers covers conflict, crime, the arms trade and human rights for the foreign and investigative desks and contributes to the “At War” and “Lens” blogs. He is a frequent contributor to Esquire and writes occasionally for other publications.
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