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12 Editors Selected for IRP’s Gatekeeper
Trip to Uganda
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Photo courtesy of Stella Bogdanić. |
The International Reporting Project (IRP) has chosen 12 senior editors and producers from across the United States to participate in a 10-day visit to Uganda this May as part of the IRP’s annual “Gatekeeper Editors” fellowships.
The Uganda trip, which will have a strong focus on health, agriculture, development and environmental/climate change issues, is the ninth Gatekeepers trip since the program began in 2000. Previous IRP Gatekeeper editors have traveled to Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa, Lebanon/Syria, India, Egypt, Nigeria and Korea.
“This is the fourth time in our nine Gatekeeper trips that we’ve taken editors to Africa,” said John Schidlovsky, director of the IRP. “Africa is consistently under-covered in the U.S. media, and our aim is to open editors’ eyes to the wide variety of important stories there.”
Editors selected for the Uganda trip, scheduled for May 3-15, are:
Curtis Anderson, news editor, Rocky Mountain News
Michelle Burford, contributing features writer, Oprah Magazine
Andrew Chang, senior producer/editor, Yahoo!
Nancy Conway, editor, Salt Lake Tribune
Jennifer Goren, planning editor, BBC/PRI “The World”
Fred Guterl, assistant managing editor, Newsweek International
Paul Hendrie, department editor, Congressional Quarterly
Donald MacGillis, assistant editorial page editor, Boston Globe
Davan Maharaj, business editor, Los Angeles Times
Nuala McGovern, executive producer, WNYC New York Public Radio
Barbara Paulsen, assistant executive editor, National Geographic
David Rocks, senior editor, BusinessWeek
The Gatekeepers will meet with a wide range of Uganda leaders in fields such as politics, business, academia, humanitarian aid, media, religion, medicine and health, environment, conservation and science, arts and culture and other areas.
Each year, the IRP conducts two separate Gatekeeper Editors trips. The program gives senior U.S. editors an opportunity to learn about important but under-covered global issues so they can improve their news organizations’ international coverage.
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