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Example of Greatness. In addition to the long-established Nieman Fellowships at Harvard and the Columbia University scholarships for advanced science writing and international reporting, there is an impressive roster of new programs, many of them supported by the Ford Foundation. Southern newsmen are now being awarded Mark Ethridge scholarships for study at any of six Southern universities. Stanford University is starting a program for some 40 journalists. Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism this fall will offer 40 reporters programs in urban studies. The Russell Sage Foundation has made two grants for study of the social sciences...
...Wayne Woodlief, a Nieman Fellow concluding a year at Harvard, is a general assignment reporter for the Norfolk, Va. Ledger-Star. His assignments reporter for the Norfolk, Va. Ledger-Star. His assignments have included race relations and politics. He has followed the Virginia senatorial campaign through newspapers from his state and correspondence with politicians...
...Lyons Award was created in 1964 in honor of Louis M. Lyons, who retired that year after serving as the Nieman curator for 25 of the 29 years of the Foundation's existence. Minor was selected from nominations submitted by Nieman alumni...
...Nieman Fellows have awarded journalism citations to Ralph Nader, author of Unsafe at Any Speed, and Wilson F. Minor, correspondent for the New Orleans Times-Picayune...
Minor, a political writer from Jackson, Miss., is the winner of the third annual Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. The Nieman Fellows selected him for his "sharply perceptive investigative reporting of political and racial affairs...