Word: niemans
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...Black South African journalist banned by the South African government last week became the first foreign journalist to win the Nieman Foundation's Louis M. Lyons Award for "conscience and integrity" in journalism...
...Richard E. Neustadt, Littsuer Professor of Public Administration, who served as consultant on organization, said, "I don't find it surprising given the availability of technology." James C. Thomson, Jr., curator of the Nieman Fellows, who worked in the State Department, also played down the significance, saying. "Everyone was taping everyone else. The major problem in the early Kennedy years," he added, "was the fear that [then-Attorney General] Robert Kennedy was taping...
...Canadian government has offered the tours to Nieman fellows for the past 12 years in an attempt to increase journalists' knowledge of Canada, Thomson said. The government of Japan has extended similar offers in past years to tour Japan during the spring...
Fellows--all practicing journalists--are chosen yearly by the Nieman foundation for two semesters of study at Harvard. They agree not to write anything for publication during their year in Cambridge, and that they receive neither credit nor grades for their course work...
...program was founded in 1938 by Harvard president James B. Conant '14 with funds left by Agnes Wahl Nieman. Conant established the fellowship to give practicing journalists an opportunity to broaden their knowledge, or pursue their area of specialty in greater depth...