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...Nicholas Daniloff ’53 may be enjoying his current position as director of the Northeastern University School of Journalism, but the seasoned journalist hasn’t always been nestled in the Ivory Tower: while reporting in Soviet Russia, Daniloff was imprisoned by the KGB. FM sat down to ask the veteran reporter 15 Questions about Final Clubs, Russian bureaucracy and KGB contacts...
...Nicholas Daniloff (ND): It certainly satisfied and stimulated my intellectual curiosity. I lived in Holworthy Hall, Suite 16, which was always a subject of some joke—Sweet 16. And I went out for crew as well; so the intellectual pursuits and the crew were very big in my life...
Much of the international coverage focuses on the U.S., but there is a more heavy-handed slant on some stories than on others. After U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Nicholas Daniloff was arrested as a spy in Moscow in late August, TASS declared he had been "caught red-handed" and that "it would seem proper that his bosses should still their tongues out of shame." The Soviet news agency used the episode as an opportunity to lambaste the CIA, reminding readers how the agency "prepared such subversive acts as the intrusion of a South Korean Boeing aircraft into Soviet airspace...
...telephone to the ground, and though he rowed varsity crew, in his senior year he would be demoted to the third boat. As he would throughout his life, he struggled with reading.“He was dyslexic, which caused him a big problem,” says Nicholas Daniloff ’56, Bingham’s freshman year roommate. “He really didn’t take to the intellectual life at Harvard.”NEWSPAPER ETHICSAfter graduating, he served as a platoon leader for the U.S. Marine Corps in Okinawa, Japan.When he returned from...
...Nicholas Daniloff ’56 says Harvard did not prepare him for the challenges he would face in his professional life. Perhaps that’s because his long career as a journalist would take him away from the ivory tower and into the dungeon of a jail. “Harvard fell down for me in that it was not very good at preparing students for anything other than further education,” Daniloff says.But what undergraduate education prepares a student for enemy capture?In 1986 while working as a correspondent for U.S. News and World Report...