Before a Harvard community that stood in the rain to witness history, Claudine Gay is inaugurated as the university’s 30th president. She met the moment with an extraordinary speech. 1/ “Not 400 yards from where I stand, some four centuries ago, four enslaved people—Bilhah, Titus, Venus and Juba—lived and worked in Wadsworth House as the personal property of the president of Harvard University. 2/

“Is there desperation on this page?” @NYHistory⁩’s exhibition of the Robert Caro archives is a study in the mechanics of virtuosity and the counsel of an early editor: “Turn every page…turn every goddamn page.” A few of the hand-written admonishments he posted in book drafts: “BE VERY CAREFUL.” Check this all-caps warning Caro writes to himself about how to portray a source. (Can’t conclude from this page alone, but there is a Texas Sen. Ralph Yarborough who appears in the Passage of Power, Caro’s fourth volume in the LBJ biography.)

“Schedule an impeachment vote for this very night. Stay ’til dawn. Do whatever is necessary. “ theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… .@MiamiHerald also calls for Trump’s removal. “This president is incapacitated. This president is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office...This president is a deranged and dangerous man.” miamiherald.com/opinion/editor…

May 31, 2020. A portrait of America reflected in page one newspaper photographs. ⁦@freep⁩ by Junfu Han 1/ The @PatriotNews and @PennLive, by @SeanSimmers 2/

1/ To celebrate @niemanfdn’s 80th anniversary year, we asked our alumni for examples of journalism that influenced them, their beat, their country or their culture. We’ll soon be publishing 80 answers @NiemanReports. And they’re spectacular.
#journalismthatchangedme 2/ Among the joys of reading the accounts are vivid descriptions of where journalists were when they discovered the work that changed them. So much media is disposable, designed to last until the next breaking news alert. But these encounters had a rare indelible quality.