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Thomson acknowledges that receiving a Nieman Fellowship is considered an award by members of the profession and that it puts a feather in the cap of young journalists...
...standard joke is that a Nieman isn't good for anything more than membership in a Harvard club and a job at Time (Newsweek) magazine. The joke speaks both to the striking loyalty which most Niemans feel to the program and also to its reputation as a job improvement mechanism...
...whether Niemans move on to bigger and better things because they have received an offer while at Harvard or because the year here has altered their perspectives vis-a-vis journalism, Thomson feels that the Nieman program creates an incentive for editors and publishers to improve the profession...
...majority of Nieman Fellows have gone back for a significant time," he observed. "And some stay forever--usually because their employer makes things attractive for them. When they leave it's because the newspaper is dreary...
While no one at Harvard would admit that the program serves to hand-pick tomorrow's journalistic greats, and while certainly not all Niemans either enjoy the year or go on to establish a name for themselves, it is true that Harvard is looking for something special when it selects each year's Nieman group...