Twelve Nieman Fellows Appointed

Twelve international journalists have been appointed to the 58th class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University.

The Nieman Fellowships were established in 1938 through a bequest of Agnes Wahl Nieman in memory of her husband, Lucius, founder and publisher of The Milwaukee Journal. Fellowships are awarded to working journalists of "particular accomplishment and promise" for an academic year of study in any part of the university, according to a release.

Thirteen U.S. journalists were named as fellows earlier this month. The international journalists in the new Nieman class and their areas of interest include:

.Kevin Davie, 40, editor of Business Times, Sunday Times, Johannesburg, South Africa. He expects to focus on policy issues in public finance, trade and industry, petroleum economics, labor markets, agriculture, development finance and rural development.

.Laura Eggertson, 32, senior Washington correspondent, The Canadian Press, Toronto. She will concentrate on social change in Canada, the United States and the world.

.Jae-Hong Kim, 45, assistant editor, Political Desk II, The Dong-A Ilbo, Seoul, Korea. He will focus on the Korean Peninsula's reunification process, the diplomatic issues surrounding improved U.S. North Korea relations; and the new international order and regional stability in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly after reunification.

.Gwendolyn Lister, 42, editor of The Namibian, Windhoek. Lister will focus her study on democracy, human rights and related areas such as press freedom, freedom of speech and the media. She also intends to pursue courses in political philosophy, ethics and writing.

.Jenny Lo, 43, executive producer, British Broadcasting Corporation's Marshall Plan of the Mind Project. Lo intends to pursue courses in leadership development at the Business School, a Central Asian language or Mandarin Chinese, and the history of art or music.

.Francois Marot, 37, senior editor, Ca M'interesse, Paris, France. Marot's study plan includes courses in political theory at the Kennedy School of Government, management at the Business School and the Russian language.

.Wojciech Mazowiecki, 38, business desk editor and news/managing editor, Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, Poland. Mazowiecki intends to explore issues surrounding freedom of expression, the right to privacy and the right to know.