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Article: NIEMAN FOUNDATION DROPS PLAN TO TRAIN CHINA OLYMPIC OFFICIALS JOURNALISM PROGRAM CRITICIZED BY ALUMNI
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 13, 2005
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Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism announced
yesterday that it is withdrawing from a program to help train Chinese
officials to interact with the media during the 2008 Beijing
Olympics.
Nieman curator Bob Giles said he changed his mind after a furor
erupted when the issue surfaced during last weekend's reunion of
Nieman fellows. The program for senior Chinese officials had been
slated for late June and was sponsored by the Nieman Foundation,
Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, and the Harvard
University Asia Center. A statement from the foundation yesterday
said the program might continue under other Harvard sponsorship.
"We thought we were trying to do ...
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