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Meet the new class of Nieman Fellows

LINK: www.nieman.harvard.edu ➚ | Posted by: Joshua Benton | May 16, 2013

The announcement is up at the Nieman Foundation site. It’s a great batch of 24 journalists — half from the United States, half from the rest of the world — who’ll be spending the next year here at Harvard. (Journalists: It’s never too early to start thinking about applying. The first deadlines are a little over six months away.)

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