Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowships at Harvard University (Fully Funded)
Deadline: September 25, 2020
The Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowships at Harvard offer short-term research opportunities to individuals interested in working on special projects designed to advance journalism. Since this initiative’s inception in 2012, the Nieman Foundation has awarded 42 visiting fellowships ranging between two and twelve weeks. Candidates need not be practicing journalists, but must demonstrate the ways in which their work at Harvard and the Nieman Foundation may improve the prospects for journalism’s future.
Knight Visiting Nieman Fellows utilize the extensive resources at Harvard and MIT, including local scholars, research centers and libraries, to achieve concrete results, either developing a project that can be completed during the time spent at Harvard or as part of a larger undertaking that continues after the fellowship period ends. Additionally, fellows are expected to share their progress and findings either through publication on one of Nieman’s in-house websites—Nieman Reports, Nieman Journalism Lab, and Nieman Storyboard—or in another medium or format better suited to the project.
Benefits
Selected applicants will receive the following benefits
- For fellows not supported by an employer during the fellowship, a stipend of $1,350 per week will be provided. If an employer keeps the fellow on salary during the fellowship because the project benefits the organization, a fellowship stipend will not be provided.
- If a fellow does not reside in the Boston area or otherwise have accommodations, free use of a furnished one-bedroom apartment will be available for the length of the fellowship.
Eligibility
To be sure to reserve a place for this fellowship, you must fulfill the following conditions
- The proposed project must have the potential to advance journalism. This may be related to research, programming, design, financial strategies or another topic.
- Those who should consider applying include journalists, publishers, technologists, entrepreneurs, programmers, designers, media analysts, academics and others who want to make an impact. There is no age limit or academic prerequisites, and a college degree is not required. Both U.S. and international applicants are invited to apply.
- Candidates must be available to be in residence in Cambridge, Mass., for the duration of the fellowship.
- Prospective fellows must speak and read English fluently and have a command of written English.
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Application
For this fall, Nieman will offer, for a period of one year, remote Visiting Fellowships in support of projects that advance racial justice and public health journalism in the U.S. In so doing, the fellowship will aim to provide targeted research opportunities and specialized training to individuals with concrete and innovative ideas supporting one or more of the following goals:
- Advance the representation of journalists of color throughout the news industry
- Improve coverage of underreported stories and communities
- Explain the impact of coronavirus on an area or group
- Enhance reporting expertise and coverage of public health in a community
The application requires the following information accompanied with relevant documents
- Biographical information,
- A résumé or curriculum vitae,
- Contact information for three professional references,
- A 600-word project proposal—an essay that describes the project you plan to pursue as a visiting fellow at Harvard.
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