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16-552: A Nieman Fellowship is an award given to journalists by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University . The fellowship is a transformative learning opportunity open to candidates working in all media in every country around the world. Nieman Fellowships are awarded to reporters, editors, photographers, producers, filmmakers, editorial writers, cartoonists, digital innovators and other journalists with at least five years of full-time, professional experience in

32-668: A holdover from a brief moment after Agnes Wahl Nieman's death when her gift was to be used to build a microfilm library of quality journalism. The foundation has appointed eight curators: Stanley Forman Stanley Joseph Forman (born July 10, 1945) is an American photojournalist , who won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography two years in a row while working at the Boston Herald American . A native of Winthrop , Massachusetts, Forman graduated from Revere High School and studied photography at

48-862: A watchdog journalist or investigative reporter from the United States is selected for a fellowship from the general application pool, the Nieman Foundation may offer the Murrey Marder Fellowship in Watchdog Reporting." This joint fellowship, awarded for the first time in 2012, is a joint fellowship between the Nieman Foundation and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society that is awarded to U.S and international candidates with project proposals related to innovation in journalism. Funded by

64-737: A white male teenager, Joseph Rakes, wielding a flagpole holding the American flag as a weapon during the height of the Boston Desegregation Busing Crisis . In 1979, Forman's photography staff at the Boston Herald American won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for coverage of the Blizzard of 1978 in Boston . However, Forman did not take any photographs that led to the award because he

80-478: A writing seminar for Fellows, and a public website, Nieman Storyboard, which covers storytelling across media. Several prestigious literary or journalism awards are based at the Nieman Foundation. They include three given in connection with the Columbia University School of Journalism : Other awards based at Nieman include: The leader of the Nieman Foundation is known as its "curator" —

96-676: Is at Lippmann House in Cambridge , Massachusetts . Each fellow is free to design an individual course of study. Some pursue classes in a reporting specialty. Others explore the breadth of Harvard's schools and departments. With the knowledge they gain on campus and the relationships they build, fellows often return to work as journalism entrepreneurs, industry innovators and top managers in their newsrooms. Some two dozen fellowships are awarded annually, half to Americans and half to non-Americans. As part of each class, specialized fellowships are also available: Additionally, "during years in which

112-460: Is considered the most prestigious fellowship program for journalists; Nieman Fellows have collectively won 101 Pulitzer Prizes . The foundation is also the home of Nieman Reports , a website and quarterly print publication on journalism issues. The journal was founded in 1947. In 2004, the Foundation launched Nieman Watchdog, a website intended to encourage more aggressive questioning of

128-463: Is the primary journalism institution at Harvard University . It was founded in February 1938 as the result of a $ 1.4 million bequest by Agnes Wahl Nieman, the widow of Lucius W. Nieman , founder of The Milwaukee Journal . Scholarships were established for journalists with at least three years' experience to go back to college to advance their work. She stated the goal was "to promote and elevate

144-638: The Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology from 1965 to 1966. After graduating, Forman became a cameraman for political campaigns before joining the Boston Herald American as a photo lab technician. Forman was later promoted to staff photographer. By the 1970s Forman became the recipient of citations from the United Press International and the Boston Press Photographers. In 1973 he

160-609: The Abrams Foundation, the Abrams Nieman Fellowship for Local Investigative Journalism was created in 2018 to bolster deeply reported local and regional news stories in underserved areas throughout the United States. Candidates selected for the fellowship spend two semesters at Harvard and then receive financial support for up to nine months of fieldwork to develop an investigative project that will provide better, more in-depth coverage of issues important to

176-718: The communities they serve. Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, this fellowship offers a short-term research opportunity to individuals interested in working on special projects designed to advance journalism in some new way. 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. This may be related to research, programming, design, financial strategies or another topic. Both U.S. and international applicants are invited to apply. Nieman Foundation for Journalism The Nieman Foundation for Journalism

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192-460: The news media. At Harvard, Nieman Fellows attend seminars, shop talks, master classes and journalism conferences designed to strengthen their professional skills and leadership capabilities. Those selected for the program spend two full semesters at Harvard auditing classes with some of the university's greatest thinkers, participating in Nieman events and collaborating with peers. The fellowship home

208-541: The photo received the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. Forman is the first photographer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography two years in a row (1976 and 1977). In 1976, he won for the Fire Escape Collapse , and the next year, he became co-winner for the same award for The Soiling of Old Glory , a photograph depicting a black attorney, Ted Landsmark , being assaulted by

224-570: The powerful by news organizations. In 2012 it became a project of Nieman Reports . In 2008, the foundation created the Nieman Journalism Lab , an effort to investigate future models that could support quality journalism. For several years, ending in 2009, the foundation sponsored the annual Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism, the largest conference of its kind, which attracted hundreds of writers, filmmakers, and broadcasters to Boston. The narrative program now consists of

240-724: The standards of journalism in the United States and educate persons deemed specially qualified for journalism." The Nieman Foundation is best known as home to the Nieman Fellows, a group of journalists from around the world who come to Harvard for a year of study. Many noted journalists, and from 1959, also photojournalists, have been Nieman Fellows, including John Carroll , Dexter Filkins , Susan Orlean , Robert Caro , Hodding Carter , Michael Kirk , Alex Jones , Anthony Lewis , Robert Maynard , Allister Sparks , Stanley Forman , Hedrick Smith , Lucia Annunziata , Jonathan Yardley , Philip Meyer , Howard Sochurek and Huy Duc . It

256-604: Was chosen as Regional Photographer of the year. In 1975, Forman was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year by World Press Photo for the Fire Escape Collapse , a photograph depicting a young woman, Diana Bryant, and her goddaughter, Tiare Jones, falling from a collapsed fire escape during a fire. As he found out later, the child survived because she was cushioned by the body of her godmother. In 1976

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