[aaus-list] Harvard, Ukraine and the Nieman Fellowship

[bohdan_oryshkevich at verizon.net]

Dear Friends:

   

Once again Ukraine 
has been shut out of the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. 

http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/newsitem.aspx?id=100116


   

The Nieman Fellowship is a funded opportunity for a
mid-career journalist to spend a year at Harvard University .  Alumni of this program become a network of
mutually supportive journalists around the world.  Over 1,300 fellows from 88 countries have
been Nieman Fellows.  

   

 Ukraine 
has not had one Nieman in the whole history of the program.   Poland had Nieman Fellows even
during the Communist era.  The Russian Federation 
has had several Nieman Fellows.  In the
2008-2009 academic year, the Russian
  Federation had three such fellows and
another coming in September 2009.   China provides
Nieman Fellows on a regular basis.  Even Iran 
has had such Fellows. 

   

We all have to ask ourselves why there have been no Nieman Fellows
from Ukraine .


   

Thank you for your attention.  I would love to hear from you on the reasons
for this absence.

   

Bohdan A. Oryshkevich, MD, MPH

 Founder , USA / USA Program 

   

   

Here are the links to the Fellowship:

www.nieman.harvard.edu


   

Current Fellows (2008-2009)

http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/NiemanFoundation/NiemanFellowships/MeetTheFellows/CurrentFellows.aspx


   

Alumni Fellows: 

http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/NiemanFoundation/NiemanFellowships/MeetTheFellows/AlumniFellows.aspx


   

Fellows (2009-2010)

http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/newsitem.aspx?id=100116


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