For more than 75 years, the Nieman Foundation has brought fellows to Cambridge for a year of study and exploration that has seeded some of the most remarkable journalism of the century. Fellows have come from nearly 100 different countries and every medium, all of them searching for knowledge and challenges that would advance their work. Alumni now range from Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Robert Caro to Pulitzer Prize-winning legal columnist Anthony Lewis; from pioneering newspaper editors Robert Maynard and Geneva Overholser to new media creators Hong Qu of Upworthy and YouTube and Laura Amico of Homicide Watch; from Nigeria’s courageous Sunday Dare to I. Roberto Eisenmann Jr., co-founder of Panama’s crusading La Prensa; from Ecuadorian photographer Pablo Corral Vega to American cartoonist Doug Marlette.
There is no prototypical Nieman fellow, as is clear from the bios of the current class. The 24 — half Americans, half international — have a remarkably diverse industry pedigree. Their work has taken them to The Wall Street Journal and Boing Boing, the Los Angeles Times and the New Haven Independent, NPR and Cuba’s blogosphere, an online investigative startup in Serbia and The Washington Post, a Kentucky public radio station and CNN. Some fellows are at the nascent stages of their careers, others are senior newsroom leaders. They have in common a passion for journalism and have brought to Harvard an exciting set of questions they are exploring individually and as a class. And, yes, a mere three months into their work, some have already declared it the best year of their lives.
The process that will lead to next year’s class of fellows starts now.
DEADLINE: 1st December, 2014.
To apply and for more information visit here
