
Awards & Conferences
- Awards & Conferences
- Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism
- Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism
- Joe Alex Morris Jr. Lecture
- J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project
- I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence
- The Christopher J. Georges Conference on College Journalism
- Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism
Joe Alex Morris Jr. Lecture
38th Lecturer

Frank Langfitt
NPR’s London correspondent Frank Langfitt has been selected to deliver the next Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.
Langfitt covers the UK and Ireland—notably the many developments surrounding Brexit and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic—as well as stories elsewhere in Europe. He previously, spent five years as an NPR correspondent covering China. Based in Shanghai, he drove a free taxi around the city for a series on a changing China as seen through the eyes of ordinary people. He expanded that reporting into the book, “The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China.”
Before moving to Shanghai, Langfitt was NPR’s East Africa correspondent based in Nairobi and before that was NPR’s labor correspondent based in Washington, D.C. He was a 2003 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
About the Award
The Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecture is presented annually by an American overseas correspondent or commentator on foreign affairs who is invited to Harvard to discuss international reporting.
The lecture honors Joe Alex Morris Jr., a Middle East correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. A member of the Harvard class of 1949, Morris inherited an interest in international news from his father, who had served as foreign editor of United Press International and the New York Herald Tribune.
Joe Jr. worked as a local reporter at The Hartford Times and the Minneapolis Tribune before traveling abroad to work on assignment in Europe and then the Middle East for UPI, the New York Herald Tribune, Newsweek and later the Los Angeles Times. He reported from the Middle East for 25 years. In February 1979, he was killed in Tehran while covering a violent gun battle during the Iranian Revolution. He was 51 years old at the time.
Morris’ family, his Harvard classmates and his journalistic colleagues established the lectureship in his name in 1981. That same year, Morris posthumously received the Nieman Fellows’ Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity.
Lecturers
2020
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Frank Langfitt
NPR’s London correspondent
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2018
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Alfredo Corchado
Mexico-border correspondent, The Dallas Morning News
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2018
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Lynsey Addario
Photojournalist
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2016
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Kathleen Carroll
Executive Editor and Senior Vice President, The Associated Press
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2014
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Tyler Hicks
Senior Photographer, The New York Times
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2013
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Evan Osnos
Staff writer, The New Yorker
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2012
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C. J. Chivers
Reporter, The New York Times
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Ann Curry
Co-anchor of NBC News’ “Today” Program
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2011
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Dexter Filkins
Reporter, The New Yorker
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2010
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David Rohde
Reporter, The New York Times
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2009
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Gwen Thompkins
East Africa Correspondent, National Public Radio
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2008
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Tim Golden
Senior writer, The New York Times
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2007
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George Packer
Author of The Assassins Gate: America in Iraq and a staff writer at the New Yorker
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2006
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John Burns
Baghdad bureau chief of The New York Times
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2005
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Johannesburg Bureau Chief, CNN
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2004
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Anthony Shadid
Islamic affairs correspondent, The Washington Post
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2003
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Chris Hedges
Reporter, The New York Times
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2002
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Anne Garrels
Roving Correspondent, National Public Radio
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2001
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Roger Cohen
Berlin Correspondent, The New York Times
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2000
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Jane Perlez
The New York Times
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1999
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Eason Jordan
CNN
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1998
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Michael Skoler
National Public Radio
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1997
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Ann Cooper
National Public Radio
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1996
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Thomas Friedman
The New York Times
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1995
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Jim Wooten
ABC News
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1994
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Deborah Amos
ABC News, National Public Radio
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1993
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R.W. Apple Jr.
The New York Times
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1992
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Peter Arnett
CNN
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1991
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Leslie Gelb
The New York Times
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1990
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Jonathan Randal
The Washington Post
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1989
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Nicholas Daniloff
U.S. News & World Report
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1988
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Harrison Salisbury
The New York Times
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1987
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Stanley Karnow
King Features syndicated columnist
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1986
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Peter Jennings
ABC News
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1985
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Jack Foisie
Los Angeles Times
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1984
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Eric Sevareid
CBS News
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1983
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Norman Kempster
Los Angeles Times
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1982
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Flora Lewis
The New York Times
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