Word: thomson
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Also: Doris H. Kearns, assistant professor of Government; William M. Pinkerton, assistant to the vice president for Government and Community Affairs; and, James C. Thomson, curator of the Nieman Fellowships...
...addition to a dearth of radio and television journalists, the Nieman program has brought only eight women to Harvard. In order to correct some of these imbalances, Thomson sent out a mass mailing to newspapers last fall. Almost twice the usual number of applications came back, and of this group, 40 will be interviewed by the Nieman Selection Committee this weekend...
...addition, more than half of this year's Nieman group enrolled in a fiction writing seminar taught by Diana Thomson. ("While we don't want to turn our journalists into novelists, many of them can't suppress the itch." Thomson remarked...
...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...
...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...