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Nieman Foundation Calls for Release of Journalist Detained in Iran
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Iason Athanasiadis, our friend and colleague from the Nieman Class of 2008, is being detained by the Iranian government. “The Nieman Foundation and members of the Nieman community around the world are supportive of the Greek diplomatic initiatives to secure Iason’s safe and immediate release,” said Nieman Curator Bob Giles.
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A Message from the Curator
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Bob Giles, Nieman Foundation Curator, announces to friends of the Nieman Narrative program the decision to suspend the Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism and the Nieman Seminar for Narrative Editors during the 2009-2010 academic year. Read the letter »
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Gerald Grant publishes "Hope and Despair in the American City"
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In "Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh," Gerald Grant, a 1968 Nieman Fellow, compares two cities—his hometown of Syracuse, New York, and Raleigh, North Carolina—in order to examine the consequences of the nation’s ongoing educational inequities. Learn more »
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James Scott publishes "The Attack on the Liberty"
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James Scott, a 2007 Nieman Fellow, has authored "The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship," available in bookstores this week. In this book, Scott recounts the story of the horrifying attack on the U.S.S. Liberty by Israeli fighter jets and torpedo boats, and the tremendous impact it had on the lives of the crew. Learn more »
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In a City Under Strain, Ladling Out Fortification
Meet a cook who serves a struggling city, and find out how a columnist conceives his stories. Read the Narrative Digest for the second part of June »
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Knight News Challenge: A tool to push old stories to new media
Planning his Knight News Challenge entry, Joe Boydston followed his own advice: think small. He won a modest $10,000 to develop a desktop application that will allow web-challenged journalists to drag text files into a folder and have them automatically published online. Read more »
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Iran: Can Its Stories Be Told?
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Journalists — Iranians and Westerners — share their firsthand experiences as they write about the challenges they confront in gathering and distributing news and information about Iran and its people. Their words and images offer a rare blend of insights about journalists’ lives and work in Iran. In the fifth part of our 21st Century Muckrakers series about investigative and watchdog reporting, the focus turns to coverage of issues involving public health, safety and trust. And in Words & Reflections, essays touch on objectivity, religion, blogging, Ireland and post 9/11 America.
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- The future of watchdog reporting brightens as nonprofit groups organize a new network
- Charles Lewis, a longtime innovator in investigative reporting, describes what he calls “a seismic event in the annals of American journalism”—the formation of the new Investigative News Network.
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UNITY Conducts Diversity Survey
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The UNITY: Journalists of Color organization is studying how the ongoing shift from traditional to digital media is affecting diversity in emerging digital newsrooms. Can diversity be maintained? And how can it best be protected? The group would like your input. If you are a professional journalist, please participate in a short survey on the topic.
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Nieman Foundation Annual Report 2008
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Looking back over 7 decades of Nieman Fellowships, the core purpose of the program hasn't changed, "to promote and elevate the standards of journalism." Nieman Fellows continue to arrive at Harvard with an untarnished commitment to the guiding principles of journalism.
Read more about the last 70 years in our 2008 Annual Report »
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2009 Georges Conference on College Journalism
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More than 70 students from 14 college newspapers gathered at the Nieman Foundation April 3-4, 2009 for the sixth annual event, which offered talks by leading journalists, training sessions and networking opportunities. The weekend event is sponsored by the Christopher J. Georges Fund, which the Nieman Foundation administers, and is co-hosted by the foundation and The Harvard Crimson.
HEAR FROM A FEW CONFERENCE ATTENDEES on our Georges Conference Blog »
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