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Thomson says that the Nieman program consists of two tracks--one academic, and the other an "extracurricular" series of Nieman luncheons, dinners and beer and cheese seminars which bring the group together and provide a thread of continuity between academia and the world of reporting and public affairs...
After 35 years of existence, the Nieman Foundation can boast several Pulitzer Prize-winning alumni and many more top-notch reporters and media executives...
...addition, it has sparked many books and a quarterly magazine, The Nieman Reports (used almost exclusively by journalism schools), which were among the first publications to deal with the responsibilities of the press and the profession's internal problems. These subjects were not considered legitimate when the Nieman Fellowships began, Lyons notes, but have since "soaked in and been accepted" by the profession...
Essentially, the Nieman Foundation grants to 12 American journalists a leave of absence from their work and an academic year at Harvard. The Foundation pays each Neiman Fellow a weekly stipend (which is lower than the average weekly salary of $300 paid by most metropolitan dailies), as well as paying Harvard the full tuition for each...
...other words: a Nieman year can be anything that a journalist cares to make of it. James C. Thomson, whom President Bok appointed as Nieman Curator last Spring, says that "the doors to Harvard are remarkably open to us." Kevin Buckley, a current Nieman agrees: "We had a briefing in the Fall from representatives of all the Harvard schools," Buckley said. "Most of the briefings I've ever gone to have been to tell me what I can't do, but this one was different. We were told to get something for ourselves here. That message proved quite accurate...