Alumni - Nieman Foundation

Dear Nieman alumni:

As many of you know, tears flow freely at the end of every spring semester at Harvard, when Nieman Fellows “graduate” and disperse to the four corners of the globe, with hearts full of memories of their year together and minds full of ideas of how to improve journalism in their home countries.

Yet as I hope you also know, while your Nieman Fellowship may be over when you leave Cambridge, your Nieman fellowship has just begun.

More than 1,700 journalists have been privileged to call themselves Nieman Fellows since the Nieman Foundation was established in 1938. As alumni, you belong to a tight-knit worldwide community that has embraced, and advanced, the foundation’s mission to “promote and elevate the standards of journalism.”

With the ability to connect instantly and internationally at our fingertips, fellows today can stay in regular contact, reach out to alumni from other years, recommend and recruit for jobs, seek and offer mentoring, find partners for journalistic collaborations, and form lasting bonds outside their usual circles and newsrooms.

Stay tuned as we develop new ways to build our alumni network. For now, be sure to join the Nieman Nation group on LinkedIn and keep us at Lippmann House updated on your contact information and professional details. Once a Nieman, always a Nieman.

I also encourage you to read and, even better, to contribute to our publications: Nieman Lab, Nieman Reports, and Nieman Storyboard, which remain leading resources in our industry. And if you have a friend or colleague who would benefit from becoming a fellow, and who would be an asset to a Nieman class, please urge them to apply.

Finally, in this time of unprecedented attack on press freedom around the world, including through financial pressures, I ask you to consider making a donation to the Nieman Foundation so that others can experience the same inspiration and solidarity you have — and help journalism to thrive in a world that sorely needs it.