WINNER NAMED FOR TWENTY SECOND
MARTIN WISE GOODMAN
CANADIAN NEIMAN FELLOWSHIP
The trustees of
the Martin Wise Goodman Trust announce that LAURA-JULIE PERREAULT 38, staff
reporter at La Presse, has been awarded the twenty second Martin Wise Goodman
Canadian Nieman Fellowship.
This fellowship is
funded by a publicly subscribed permanent endowment in memory of Martin Wise
Goodman, late President of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited.
Laura-Julie will join eleven other foreign
journalists and twelve American journalists in the 76th class of Nieman Fellows
at Harvard University. The fellowship
carries a stipend for living expenses and payment of fees to Harvard University
Laura-Julie Perreault is a staff
reporter who covers international affairs for Montreal's La Presse, where she has worked for over 10 years. Through the
years, she has worked in over 35 countries, covering subjects ranging from the
Chechen war and the Tunisian revolution to the famine in Somalia. For her
international coverage, Perreault has received a Canadian National Newspaper
Award as well as an Amnesty International Award. At home, in her native French
Canada, she has focused on immigration issues and the impact of anti-terror
laws on immigrant communities. A graduate of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead scholar, Laura-Julie Perreault has
worked at Quebec City's Le Soleil,
for the Moscow bureau of CNN and for London-based Gemini News Service before
joining La Presse. At Harvard, she
plans to study issues facing women combatants as well as state building and
democratization in post-dictatorial states.
“The Selection Committee was very
impressed with Laure-Julie’s investigative and story-telling skills and
dedication to her craft,” said Jonathan Goodman, Chair of the Canadian Nieman
Fellowship. “We are certain that she
will benefit immensely from, yet also contribute strongly to, the upcoming
Nieman class of 2014.”
The Nieman
Fellowships were established for American journalists in 1938 in memory of
Lucius W. Nieman, founder of the Milwaukee Journal. It provides for a year of
study for working journalists in any department of Harvard University
The first twenty-one
recipients of the Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellowships were as
follows: Paul Knox of the Globe and Mail, Gregory Weston of the Ottawa Citizen,
Mary Lou Finlay of CBC Radio Toronto, Jamie Lamb of the Vancouver Sun, Jonathon
Ferguson of the Toronto Star, Jennifer Lewington of the Globe and Mail, Tom
Reagan of the Halifax Daily News, Joe Hall of the Toronto Star, Terry Gilbert
of the Calgary Herald, Paul Carvalho of CBC TV News Montreal, Laura Eggerston
of Canadian Press, Bonnie Lafave of CBC TV Toronto, Jim Meek of the Halifax
Herald, Laura Lynch of CBC Radio Vancouver, Paule Robitaille of CBC Latin
American Bureau, John Geddes of Maclean’s Magazine, Christian Rioux of Le
Devoir, Bill Schiller of the Toronto Star, James Baxter of the Edmonton Journal,
Jana Juginovic of CTV and David Skok of globalnews.ca.
This year’s
Canadian Nieman Fellowship Selection committee consisted of Clark Davey,
formerly of Southam; Mary Lou Finlay, formerly of the CBC; Malcolm Kirk,
president of The Canadian Press; John Honderich, Chair of Torstar; Douglas
Knight, President of St. Joseph Media; Jonathan Goodman, Chair of the Canadian
Nieman Fellowship and Janis Goodman, wife of the late Martin Goodman.
