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...Nieman Foundation, a prestigious mid-career journalism fellowship program at Harvard, yesterday pulled out of its sponsorship of a controversial workshop to prepare Chinese officials for media relations at the upcoming 2008 Olympics in Beijing...
Robert H. Giles, curator of the foundation and a class of 1966 Nieman fellow, had formally announced on Monday that the Nieman Foundation would be sponsoring training in press operations for 40 Chinese government officials...
Howard Berkes, a National Public Radio correspondent and class of 1998 Nieman who had heard the rumor, sparked controversy on Sunday at a Nieman alumni reunion when he confronted Giles with what he had heard...
...program was clearly inappropriate for the Nieman Foundation, a foundation dedicated to openness in journalism,” Berkes said, questioning whether the program “by design or not” would aid Chinese officials in subverting the press to broadcast a better image...
...Shock waves” rippled through the room after Giles confirmed the rumors, according to an article for the Poynter Institute by Nieman alum Molly Sinclair McCartney, who was at the meeting...