Word: niemans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...having "seen many ironies over the last years...I am delighted to have [become] a journalist rather than becoming a diplomatic servant to other men," Daniloff, a former Nieman fellow, recalled in his reunion biography...
...letter sent on behalf of the Nieman Fellows Program, Harvard's mid-career program for top journalists, vigorously protested Daniloff's arrest, and urged his immediate release, said Howard Simons, curator of the Nieman Foundation. Daniloff was a Nieman fellow in the 1973-'74 academic year...
Simons, who wrote the letter on behalf of the 700 Nieman alumni, said he doubted it would have a significant effect. "The Nieman Foundation is powerful, but it's not a superpower. I'm not sure how much the Soviet Union will care what we think," he said...
Ellen P. Goodman '63, columnist for the Boston Globe, said that she thought the letters might do some good and certainly couldn't hurt. "Gorbachev doesn't get up in the morning and worry about what Derek Bok or the Nieman fellows think, but it's part of the whole larger sense of knowing that the community--and the journalistic community--is concerned and aware," said Goodman, who was a Nieman Fellow with Daniloff...
First on the docket for Conant was a total reconstruction of the faculty. In addition to merely improving the existing faculty, Conant sought to develop new subgroups of teachers who would enhance Harvard's intellectual reputation. The Nieman Fellowships, which permit twelve journalists to work on topics of their choosing at Harvard for a year on a full full stipend, were created during this era. Conant also worked to open the gates of Harvard Yard to poor, but talented scholars with his National Scholarship program--a New Deal of sorts for less privileged classes...