Nieman Foundation

Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation Fellowships offer the gift of time and intellectual resources to some of the world’s most accomplished and promising journalists. In addition to the traditional year-long program, the Nieman Foundation now also offers short-term visiting fellowships designed to embrace an expanded cohort of developers, entrepreneurs, academics, and others who are increasingly influential in how we create and receive news. Fellows engage in classroom learning and share stories on “Why do I do what I do?” with their cohorts. They participate in weekly seminar and discussions with others across the Harvard community, give “shop talks,” and benefit from special training sessions and master classes. Current and recent awardees, for example, have focused their fellowship time on topics such as the rise of a global middle class in countries such as China and India; the portrayal of aging in a visual culture; the role of jihadist ideas in armed conflict and consequences for radicalization vs. marginalization; the process, history, and ethics of medical development and human testing; and entrepreneurial and editorial models for nuanced reporting on women and people of color.