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NIEMAN REPORTS

Automation in the Newsroom

How news outlets are using stories written by algorithms to expand coverage, engage audiences, and respond to breaking news.

NIEMAN FELLOWSHIPS

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Apply for a Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowship

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard wants to hear your idea for making journalism better. Come spend a few weeks working on it in Cambridge. Deadline: October 31.

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Nieman to host HUBweek Event

Join us for an evening of storytelling on Oct. 6 as Boston’s best journalists, authors and innovators share their stories at historic Faneuil Hall. "Made in Boston: Stories of Invention and Innovation"

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The Conversation finds its place

With writing by academics and underwriting from universities, The Conversation gets started. “It’s a daily newsroom with editors, all of whom are journalists, and the reporters are all academics.”

Fellowships

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Since 1938, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism has brought more than 1,400 promising and accomplished journalists from 93 countries to Harvard for a year of study, innovation and experimentation.

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From the Curator

Experiment, discover and innovate as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard Read more

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Foundation News

Ines Pohl, NF ’05, leaving Die Tageszeitung

Book by Danny Schechter, NF ’78, to be published posthumously

Mary Beth Sheridan, NF ’13, named deputy foreign editor at Washington Post

Wendell Steavenson, NF ’14, pens new book on Egyptian Revolution

Denise-Marie Ordway, NF ’15, joins Journalist’s Resource

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The Nieman Foundation publishes Nieman Reports, a website and quarterly magazine chronicling contemporary challenges and opportunities in journalism; Nieman Journalism Lab, a website reporting on digital media innovation; Nieman Storyboard, a website exploring the art and craft of nonfiction storytelling; as well as a series of print and e-books about current issues in journalism

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Nieman Books

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How To Make J-school Matter (Again)

Amy Webb's new approach to curriculum and classroom education

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Be the Disruptor

Clayton M. Christensen applies the lessons of disruptive innovation to the media

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The Gates of Harvard Yard

Pulitzer-winning Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin on Harvard's iconic portals

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Telling True Stories

Practical craft tips on narrative nonfiction from some of America's leading journalists