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South African fellowship turns 50
Monday, February 07, 2011
The new challenges of journalism and press freedom in South Africa will be the focus as media leaders gather in Cape Town on Saturday, Feb. 12, to mark the 50th anniversary of the South African Nieman Fellowship.
South Africa is the only country that has consistently sent a Nieman Fellow to Harvard each year since the first fellows from the country, Lewis Nkosi and Aubrey Sussens, were selected as members of the class of 1961.
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South African Fellowship
Each year the Nieman Society of Southern Africa sponsors a fellowship for a South African journalist. The society's South Africa office handles the application and selection process.
For details about the application and selection process, send an e-mail to Mandy Chinasamy, Nieman Programme Director, at
niemansa@iafrica.com
or
mchinasamy@fhr.org.za
.
Calls for applications go out in December, and the deadline for submission is Dec. 31.