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Harvard's Nieman Foundation announces its 2019 class of Knight Visiting Nieman Fellows, which includes The Atlantic's Taylor Lorenz — The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard will host a group of nine reporters, editors, media entrepreneurs and academics as Knight Visiting Nieman Fellows during the 2019 calendar year.

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Matt Donnelly / Variety:

Netflix Names STX Executive Sheroum Kim as Head of Independent Film — Sheroum Kim, a vice president of production at STX Films, has been named director of independent films at Netflix. — The latest in a string of pedigreed hires in the content group at the streamer …

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