NIEMAN FELLOWSHIPS OFFERED

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27274, 15 February 1954, Page 10

NIEMAN FELLOWSHIPS OFFERED

OPEN TO JOURNALISTS FROM N.Z.

Harvard University, by arrangement with the Carnegie Corporation of America, has offered again an associate Nieman fellowship for a year’s residence and study at the university for a New Zealand journalist. The purpose of the fellowship is to provide an opportunity for journalists to add to their background for newspaper work by an academic year of university residence during which they will have complete freedom to pursue studies of their own choice. New Zealand journalists with at least six years’ experience and under 40 years of age are eligible to apply. During the term of the fellowship a stipend to cover tuition and all living expenses in the United States for about nine months will be paid. Travel expenses (by air if necessary) from New Zealand to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and return, and for up to two months’ additional travel in the United States for professional purposes during and after the academic year, will also be paid. With the New Zealand fellow at Harvard will be 12 others selected from American papers and two other associate fellows, from Australia and Canada.

Applications will close on March 15 with the manager of the New Zealand Press Association, Wellington.