Nieman Notes Veteran journalist D.P. Kumar dies D.P. Kumar, former Resident Editor of The Statesman and former Political Editor for Newstime, died Sunday, Aug. 9. He was a 1966 Nieman Fellow. August 14, 2009 Share this article D.P. Kumar, former Resident Editor of The Statesman and former Political Editor for Newstime, died Sunday, Aug. 9. He was a 1966 Nieman Fellow.Read more 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