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Started in 1938, the Nieman Fellowship offers seasoned journalists a chance to study at Harvard for a year in their field of choice...
...number of American applicants to the Nieman Fellowship Program dropped to 91 in 2007, down from 100 last year, according to Nieman foundation curator Robert H. Giles. The decrease in applicants is part of a greater trend observed elsewhere, as Stanford also saw its Knight Fellowship Program applicant pool decrease from 101 to 83 in the last year...
...while Bettinger cited "turmoil" as a reason for applicant decline, it was that very same sentiment that compelled one Nieman fellow to apply in spite of any potential career apprehensions...
...industry is going through some very troubling and troubled times," said Joshua A. Benton, a Dallas Morning News staff reporter and a 2007 Nieman fellow. "Right now seems like a good time to get away from the newsroom for a bit, because it’s a period of reinvention...
Additionally, in a twist that Bettinger attributes to increased advertising capabilities, both the Nieman and Knight fellowships saw a rise in international applicants...