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Nieman Fellowships in Art and Culture Reporting

It's not quite business, but arts criticism sometimes borders on business writing. Or, if anyone is thinking of branching out, there's money available:

Despite the growth in the arts and culture in recent years, news organizations are employing fewer full-time journalists to report on these topics. The consequence is that the public is offered fewer insights about the meaning of art in their lives, or how to understand or appreciate arts and culture.
With this fellowship, the Nieman Foundation is attempting to address this challenge by educating Arts/Culture journalists with the purpose of influencing more comprehensive and informed arts coverage and, ultimately, greater public appreciation of the arts. Sponsored by the Harvard University Provost Office, the Nieman Fellowship in Arts and Culture Reporting is awarded to a United States journalist specializing in arts and culture reporting.

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Niemanwatchdog.org offers ideas on covering the collapse

Niemanwatchdog.org is launching a project to help journalists do a better job of covering the economic collapse. As Barry Sussman, editor of the Nieman Watchdog Project, explains: "News organizations too often lose sight of the issues and focus on politics.... With some exceptions, that’s what has happened in covering the economic collapse. Thus, citizens and voters are consistently left with little sense of their own interests, or the country’s....

"In the coming weeks, we will be running articles by independent experts or interviews with them, pointing editors and reporters to basic issues and to questions they should ask."

The project kicks off with a piece by Henry Banta called “Doing a Better Job Coping with Economic Disaster” and an interview of economist James Galbraith by writer John Hanrahan.

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, through its Watchdog Project, "seeks to encourage more informed reporting by putting journalists in contact with authorities who can suggest appropriate, probing questions and who can serve as resources."

Nieman Foundation selects biz journalists

Business journalists are among the 24 journalists selected for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism's 72nd class of fellows.
Announced Tuesday, the class of 2010 includes Wired magazine contributing editor, Jeff Howe who will examine crowdsourcing and its use in the development of sustainable journalism models.
Other fellows focusing on business issues will research topics like the economic impact of Latin American immigrants into the United States and the interconnection of the economy with life issues like foreign policy and health care.
See a full list of the 2009-2010 fellows here.