Nieman Notes Jonathan Blakley, NF ’12, Joins MPR February 17, 2015 Share this article Jonathan Blakley, a 2012 Nieman Fellow, has joined Minnesota Public Radio (MPR). Blakley, formerly of NPR, oversees MPR’s news coverage as its program director. Related News | Nieman Notes Gene Pell, journalist who led Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in final years of the Cold War, dies at 83 Nieman Notes Under the influence of architecture critic Whitney Gould, NF ’74 Mary Louise Schumacher News | Nieman Notes Whitney Gould, influential architecture critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and a 1974 Nieman Fellow, dies at 76