Word: niemans
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Aggrey J. Kaalaste, a black South African news editor and Nieman Fellow, says that although "Suzman has fought relentlessly and sincerely against the existing government," he finds her approval of progressive reforms in education and land tenure "misleading and even dangerous because the basic issues that are making blacks unhappy have not even been touched...
...system of apartheid in South Africa the subject of continuing protest, linking it at times to Harvard's own system of racism by its repression of the Afro-American studies department. In the past, President Bok and the Corporation have reluctantly made face-saving gestures, such as providing Nieman Foundation fellowships to the South African jornalists Percy Qoboza and Donald Woods, whenever the embarrassment of their policies have been too great. Now, in another move to undercut the opposition to Harvard's lucrative hare in apartheid, including a financial boycott by many alumni/ae of the College, we are presented with...
...TIME staff member since 1972, White has specialized in stories about the developing nations of the Third World since studying that subject as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard two years ago. After writing about the civil war in Rhodesia and the revolutions in Iran and Nicaragua, he found Mexico's relative political stability "a refreshing change." The roots of revolution, he says, have long been there- "high levels of unemployment, explosive population growth and a harshly inequitable distribution of wealth. Yet there hasn't been a revolution in Mexico since 1917. It's hard to figure...
Boston Herald American staff photographer Stanley Forman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his picture of a mother and daughter falling from a fire escape, is among the 12 journalists who will be Nieman fellows next year...
Judith M. Stoia, Boston public television's nightly news editor, Jan C. Stucker, of the Columbia Record, and Robert Timberg, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun will also be Nieman fellows...