Vice was once promised to become the brash young voice of news. But wild expenses, shady deals, and founder Shane Smith’s greed kept the newsroom from ever being a sustainable business.
Nieman Lab’s home, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, on Tuesday announced the 84th class of Nieman Fellows. These 22 journalists will spend the coming year at Harvard. (More information, including how to apply for next year, is here.)
You may recognize some names from (among many other places) Nieman Lab stories. We wrote about Jorge Caraballo Cordovez‘s work at Radio Ambulante here. Pranav Dixit‘s reporting on misinformation in India has regularly appeared in our fake news column. And we’ve written about work by Natalia Viana at Agência Pública, Shereen Marisol Meraji at Code Switch, and Jakob Moll at Zetland.