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Twelve U.S. journalists were appointed to the 60th class of Nieman Fellows by the Nieman Foundation this week...
...great worry, according to Bill Kovach, a former Atlanta Journal-Constitution editor who heads the Nieman Foundation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is that "newspapers are trying to save money in the newsrooms, but they are undercutting the quality of their news reports. It's taking the life right out of them." The San Francisco Examiner, for instance, still runs foreign news, but without a single overseas correspondent on staff. Under instructions from parent company Knight-Ridder to boost its margins from 16% to 18%, the Miami Herald will cut 300 jobs by the end of this year. Once considered a competitor...
...Copley, you'll find the grand department stores Saks, Lord and Taylor and Nieman Marcus...
This summer, Ben-Shachar will continue to lead workshops in Singapore. He is also helping to coordinate a two-week leadership program for next year's seven South African Nieman Fellows. In August, he and Lana Israel '97 will lead a week-long educational intervention program for township children in South Africa. Their goal, he says, is to "empower these children--to increase their belief in themselves, help them set goals, clarify their values [and] get a vision for themselves and for their community, so they can give back to their community." The program is being sponsored by Argus...
...children's issues. She has written extensively about kids and families since the mid-1980s, starting with a stint as a full-time TIME correspondent in Los Angeles. Moving to Boston, she reported, among other things, a 1988 cover story titled "Through the Eyes of Children." She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1991, and has just completed a yearlong Prudential Fellowship in Children and the News at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She is also an active participant in Boston's Big Sister program. Ludtke spends about four hours a week with her 12-year...