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Calling American journalists: It’s time to get serious about your Nieman...
The photo above — bucolic and autumnal and sunny — is a bit of a lie at the moment. It’s cold outside. Nonetheless, that image could be a lot like the one you’ll be seeing next August when you arrive...
View ArticleThe clock’s ticking for your chance at a Nieman Fellowship
A friendly reminder: The deadline for applications for the Nieman Fellowships is quickly approaching. American journalists have one week left to get their applications in, which must be postmarked by...
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Dorothy Parvaz, Al Jazeera journalist and Nieman Fellow, released from...
Last night, I started writing a post about our friend Dorothy Parvaz, the Al Jazeera English journalist and former Nieman Fellow (class of ’09) who went to Syria to report on the uprising there, then...
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Welcome to the new class of Nieman Fellows
It’s official: The 2011-12 class of Nieman Fellows has been announced. These 24 terrific journalists will come to Harvard a few months from now and spend the next academic year investigating subjects...
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Weekend journo-reads, Labor Day holiday edition
It’s the last long weekend of the summer, and amid your barbecues and beach outings, we figured you might be in the mood for some good reading material. So, in the spirit of @Longreads and...
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Deadline approaching for international journalists to apply for a Nieman...
It’s fall here in Cambridge, which means it’s time again for journalists from around the world to be thinking about applying for a Nieman Fellowship. Niemans get to spend a year at Harvard, studying...
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Announcing the Nieman-Berkman Fellowship in Journalism Innovation
For over 70 years here at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, we’ve run the Nieman Fellowships, which allows a couple dozen journalists from around the world to spend a year studying here at...
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Announcing the 75th class of Nieman Fellows
This morning, the Nieman Foundation announced our incoming class of Nieman Fellows, which will be our 75th. (The Nieman Fellowships allow a group of accomplished journalists — half American, half...
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International journalists, it’s time to apply for a Nieman Fellowship
It’s starting to feel downright autumnal in Cambridge, which means it’s time to start talking about the Nieman Fellowships — our 75-year-old program that brings around 24 journalists to spend an...
View ArticleMeet the new class of Nieman Fellows
The announcement is up at the Nieman Foundation site. It’s a great batch of 24 journalists — half from the United States, half from the rest of the world — who’ll be spending the next year here at...
View ArticleHomicide Watch’s Laura Amico: Journalism needs to be more like jazz,...
You probably know Laura Amico from her leadership of Homicide Watch D.C. and Glass Eye Media, its parent company. The site’s model — the structured coverage of all homicides, from crime to arrest to...
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What does the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel know that your newsroom doesn’t?
Editor’s note: In 1882, not long before his 25th birthday, a Wisconsin newspaperman named Lucius Nieman gave his new paper, The Milwaukee Journal, a mission: “The Journal will be the outspoken,...
View ArticleAmerican journalists, it’s time to apply for a Nieman Fellowship
With the winter cold, you’re probably going to be spending some quality time indoors this week. Which makes it a great time to work on your application to join the next class of Nieman Fellows. If...
View ArticleKnight seeds innovation (journalistic and otherwise) with its latest...
Knight Foundation is giving a boost to 24 early-stage media projects with its latest funding round from the Knight Prototype Fund. The projects, including 10 with a journalism focus, will each receive...
View ArticleCheap smartphones, low bandwidth, and a billion people: Where is India’s news...
We’re approaching the end of the Nieman Fellowship year — a natural time for fellows to reflect on what they’ve learned. Nieman-Berkman Fellow Hasit Shah of the BBC gave a talk yesterday on the...
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Can you turn future news events into structured data?
David Smydra usually works at Google, but he’s spending a few weeks here at Lippmann House as a visiting Nieman Fellow, working on an independent project. He’d like your feedback on it. You can read...
View ArticleIt’s time to apply for a visiting Nieman Fellowship
Not every journalist who would make an awesome Nieman Fellow is ready to spend a full academic year here or has a study plan or project that merits that commitment. And not everyone whose work is...
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With staffers leaving and the local daily shrinking, the New Haven...
Not too many months ago, Paul Bass gave serious thought to shutting down the New Haven Independent, the online-only nonprofit news site he founded in 2005. “A while back, I considered whether I still...
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Here is the new batch of Visiting Fellows at the Nieman Foundation
I’m very happy to point you toward the new group of Visiting Fellows here at the Nieman Foundation, of which Nieman Lab is a part. Regular Lab readers will spot several people who’ve appeared in (or...
View ArticleU.S. journalists, the clock is ticking: January 31 is the deadline to apply...
If there’s one thing most journalists learn to deal with, it’s deadlines. They may not be quite as cruelly enforced in online journalism as in print or broadcast — where presses have to run and shows...
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A new Knight Foundation grant will support the Knight Visiting Nieman...
I’m very happy to pass along a bit of Nieman news: The Knight Foundation has awarded a grant of $223,000 to the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard (of which this website is a part) to support...
View ArticleJust announced: This is the next class of Nieman Fellows
The Nieman Foundation (of which Nieman Lab is a part) just announced our 78th class of Nieman Fellows. (For the uninitiated: The Nieman Fellowship allows 24 journalists the chance to spend a year at...
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News as a design challenge: New ideas for news’ future from MIT
RELATED ARTICLE3 new ideas on the future of news from MIT Media Lab studentsMay 29, 2012Every spring at MIT, Ethan Zuckerman teaches a class called “Future of News and Participatory Media.” It’s a...
View ArticleIt’s time to apply for a visiting Nieman Fellowship
Do you have an idea to advance journalism? Can Harvard help? If yes and yes, we’d like to hear from you. We’re opening applications for our Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowships, a chance to join us here...
View ArticlePitching coach: A program at the University of Toronto wants to turn subject...
“Atul Gawande is a model of a guy who is active in his field, but in his journalism he’s actually a reporter,” Robert Steiner said. “He’s not just opining and writing op-ed pieces.” It’s the hope of...
View ArticleJournalists without borders: CONNECTAS helps reporters look beyond their own...
More than 100 media organizations partnered with the The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on the initial swath of stories in the Panama Papers leak. One partner was itself a...
View ArticleIt’s time to apply for a Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowship
Journalism lives in interesting times. By many measures, the opportunity for invention and impact are greater than ever. By others, it’s an industry crippled by stubborn financial conditions. But we’re...
View ArticleIt’s time to apply for a Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowship
How would you finish this sentence? Journalism has never been more _______. If you answered essential or exciting or precarious or imperiled — and have ideas for how to make it more of the first two or...
View ArticleAre you a science journalist? Apply for the new Harry M. Davis Nieman...
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard (of which Nieman Lab is a part) just announced a new year-long fellowship for science journalists, to be offered next year: The Nieman Foundation for...
View ArticleIt’s time to apply for an Abrams Nieman Fellowship for Local Investigative...
If you’ve read this site for any length of time, you’re well aware of the crisis in local news. Digital media, rather than decentralizing journalism geographically, has concentrated more of it in New...
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