Data limit: 1st December 2023
Applications are now open for the Nieman Visiting Fellowships at Harvard 2024-2025. The Nieman Visiting Fellowships at Harvard offer short-term research opportunities for specific individuals to work on specific special projects to promote journalism. Since the initiative began in 2012, the programme has awarded 69 visiting fellowships. In response to the coronavirus pandemic and the movement for racial justice, the Nieman Foundation has dedicated the 2021 fellowships to projects that promote racial justice and public health journalism in the US.
Nieman Visiting Fellows draw on the extensive resources of Harvard and MIT, including local academics, research centres and libraries, to achieve concrete results, either by developing a project that can be completed during the time spent at Harvard or as part of a larger undertaking that continues after the fellowship period ends. In addition, fellows are expected to share their progress and findings through publication on one of Nieman's internal websites - Nieman Reports, Nieman Journalism Lab and Nieman Storyboard - or in another medium or format more suited to the project.
Financial support
- For scholars not supported by an employer during the scholarship, a stipend of US$ 1,325 per week will be provided. If an employer keeps the scholar without salary during the scholarship because the project benefits the organisation, a scholarship will not be provided.
- If a scholar does not live in the Boston area or is otherwise able, free use of a furnished one-bedroom flat will be available for the duration of the scholarship.
Eligibility
- The proposed project must have the potential to promote journalism. This could be related to research, programming, design, financial strategies or another topic.
- Those who should consider applying include journalists, editors, technologists, entrepreneurs, programmers, designers, media analysts, academics and others who want to make an impact. There is no age limit or academic prerequisites, and no university degree is required. US and international applicants are invited to apply.
- Applicants must be available to live in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the duration of the scholarship.
- Prospective scholars must speak and read English fluently and have a command of written English.
Application
The application will require biographical information, a CV or curriculum vitae, contact details for three professional references and a 600-word project proposal - an essay describing the project you plan to carry out as a visiting researcher at Harvard.
The guiding questions to be answered in the essay are:
- Which specific Harvard or local resources will be especially important and useful?
- How, specifically, will you use the scholarship time to advance the project?
- What will be the end product or result of your fellowship?
- How will your work benefit journalism?
For more information, visit Nieman Visiting Fellowships .
