Nicholas Daniloff passed away last week at an assisted living facility in Cambridge. He was 89.
Daniloff was instrumental in the development of the Northeastern School of Journalism’s longstanding relationship with NENPA and its predecessor NEPA, and he formerly served as an ex-officio member of its Board of Directors.
Daniloff joined Northeastern University in 1989 and he directed the journalism program from 1992- 1999. He formally taught ethics, and graduate and undergraduate print journalism courses.
In 2013, Professor Daniloff earned the Journalism Educator of the Year Award from NENPA, a well-deserved honor, that was reported at the time by Debora Almeida in The Huntington News, our independent student newspaper. “I try to bring the real world of journalism into the classroom,” Nick told Debora. “A good journalism professor has real journalistic experience and didn’t just read about it.” He had some plans for his impending retirement, too: “I want to keep learning, read more Shakespeare, specifically his sonnets.”
A 30-year veteran in national media, Daniloff served as a foreign correspondent for UPI and U.S. News & World Report in London, Paris, Moscow and Washington D.C. His experience gives him extraordinary expertise and source material for his teaching. These experiences included dilemmas over obtaining and publishing photographs of a grave site for Chernobyl, an awkward and difficult decision to be made when presented suddenly with highly sensitive documents, and his ordeal as the center of international attention in Moscow after the apprehension of a Soviet spy in the United States.
He wrote several books and numerous popular and academic articles. The books include The Kremlin & the Cosmos (1972), Two Lives, One Russia (1988), and the recent Of Spies and Spokesmen: My Life as a Cold War Correspondent (2008).
Read the obituary in the New York Times
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