Anatomy of a Selection
Just before the reunion, Harvard was engaged in serious discussions with Carroll, who was leaving his job as editor of The Baltimore Sun, about the possibility of his taking the post.
But then the Tribune Company purchased Times Mirror, the parent
company of the Los Angeles Times, and offered Carroll the editorship
there.
Carroll spent a "couple of sleepless nights" and then decided to take himself out of the running for the Nieman job.
Carroll started at the Times on April 24. Four days later, on April 28, at the Nieman Fellows reunion, Kovach declared the Foundation curatorship "ready for an upgrade," but did not, as he had hoped, have the new curator by his side.