Fellowships

The impact that all international Nieman Fellows have in their own country is really a good contribution to democratic institutions, to the quality of journalism there and ultimately for having a better society, an open society. When you look into journalism, rapid changes that are going on now because of the digital revolution, you may be tempted to think that this [Nieman] enlightenment year is not that important because we are in the urgency of learning new tools. I would be very cautious in discarding this enlightenment, this intellectual growth as something secondary. I think both things are important and I think that is what is more valuable here: It’s coming to a great university and learn not only the latest tool or app, but growing as a human being, as a person who needs a better intellectual background to do better journalism.”