CARNEGIE GRANT

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26465, 5 July 1951, Page 8

CARNEGIE GRANT

CHRISTCHURCH MAN TO VISIT U.S.

NIEMAN FELLOWSHIP FOR JOURNALISTS Mr H. J. E. Kane, chief reporter of “The Press,” has been advised of his selection under a Carnegie Corporation grant as an Associate Nieman Fellow, entitling him to an academic year at Harvard University and two to tnree months’ tour of United States newspapers. Provided for working journalists. Nieman Fellowships were established in 1937 by a bequest of Mrs Agnes Wahl Nieman in memory of her hus-

band, Lucius W. Nieman, founder of the “Milwaukee Journal,” the purpose being the promotion of standards of journalism in the United States. This year the scheme has been extended to certain British territories. Born in Gisborne in 1911, Mr Kane was educated at the Kaiti school, Gisborne, and Terrace School, Wellington, of which he was dux in 1924, and at Wairarapa College. He completed a B.A. degree at Canterbury University College in 1935, and from work as university correspondent joined the staff of “The Press” in 1936. After a year’s experience with new newspapers in 1938, as chief of staff of the Hawke’s Bay “Daily Mail” and chief reporter of the Motueka “Star-Times.” he rejoined the literary staff of “The Press,” and has been on the staff since then, except for a break of two years. 1943 to 1945, in which he trained and served -? s a navigator with the R.N.Z.A.F. in New Zealand and the Pacific. He was appointed chief reporter of “The Press” in 1947. Accompanied by his wife. Mr Kane expects to leave New Zealand about the end of August.