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Bailey Bound In Fall For Harvard Yard

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Independent Managing Editor Melissa Bailey will spend a sabbatical year as a Harvard Nieman fellow studying the development of online higher ed.

Bailey (pictured) will join journalists from the Washington Post, NPR, New York Times Magazine, and El Mundo, among other publications, studying as a fellow in the year-long program, the Nieman Foundation announced Wednesday. Click here to read the full release.

Bailey joined the Independent in February 2006. As an editor, intrepid reporter, photographer, and innovator, she has helped oversee the Independent’s steady growth. She has intensely covered the development of New Haven’s school-reform drive, with her stories also appearing in Time Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, Slate and the Huffington Post. At Harvard, Bailey will study how online degrees are redefining higher education, with a particular interest in competency-based programs and the impact on the nation’s class divide.”

The sabbatical will start in August.

In a Facebook post Wednesday Bailey looked ahead to a sabbatical year trading ideas with some of the best and brightest journalists from around the world.”

So honored and delighted to be part of the Nieman crew,” she wrote. This is a dream come true for me — and a testament to all of the work we’ve done here in New Haven.”

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