Committee to Choose Nieman Fellows

A committee of two journalists and two members of the Harvard community will select approximately 12 American journalists for the University's 1996-97 Nieman Fellowships, according to Bill Kovach, curator of the Nieman Foundation.

The fellowships are awarded to working journalists of particular accomplishment and promise for an academic year of study at Harvard. In May an announcement will be made of the journalists appointed to the new class of Nieman Fellows.

The committee is chaired by Bill Kovach, former editor of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, former Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, and Nieman Fellow '89. He will be assisted by Murray Seeger, special adviser to the Nieman curator, former foreign and Washington correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, and Nieman Fellow '62.

The committee members are: Constance Casey, national correspondent, Newhouse News Service, Nieman Fellow '89; Merle Goldman, associate of the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard; Carol J. Grodzins, assistant director for Student Programs in the Harvard Institute for International Development and director of the Edward S. Mason Program in Public Policy and Management; and David R. Jones, assistant managing editor and editor of the national edition, The New York Times. In separate processes, two environmental journalists (one American and one international) and approximately 10 to 12 international journalists will be chosen as 1996-97 Nieman Fellows. Their selections also will be announced in May.

The Nieman Fellowships were established in 1938 through a bequest from Agnes Wahl Nieman in memory of her husband, Lucius, founder and publisher of The Milwaukee Journal. The fellowships, now in their 58th year, are the oldest midcareer fellowships for journalists in the world. More than 950 journalists, representing various media throughout the United States and in over 60 other countries, have studied at Harvard as Nieman Fellows.