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IRP Fellows in International Journalism Selected at
Johns Hopkins SAIS for Fall 2003 Program
Washington - Ten U.S. journalists have been awarded IRP Fellowships in International Journalism at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University. The journalists' four-month fellowships begin September 1, 2003.
Two of the journalists will report from Iran as part of the fellowship program, which combines nine weeks of academic study and six weeks of individual overseas reporting. Other Fellows in the fall 2003 program will report from Angola, Argentina, Cambodia, Ivory Coast, Russia, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Zambia.
"Iran is critical to fast-moving events in the Middle East and Southwest Asia and we hope these two journalists will increase U.S. public understanding of news in the region," said John Schidlovsky, director of the International Reporting Project.
Each year, two groups of U.S. journalists are selected for the program. This fall's group is the largest ever selected. The journalists choose their own overseas project and offer the stories they produce to their news organizations or to other media. Stories by previous Fellows are available at www.pewfellowships.org. The program, which aims to encourage more international reporting in the U.S. media, was created in 1998 with a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts.
The IRP Fellows for fall 2003, their affiliations and the countries on which they will focus are:
Joshua Benton, Dallas Morning News - Zambia
Antrim Caskey, freelance photojournalist - Argentina
Jessie Deeter, freelance video journalist - Sierra Leone
Daphne Eviatar, freelance writer - Angola
Marcia Franklin, Idaho Public TV - Iran
Jeremy Kahn, Fortune - Ivory Coast
Suzanne Marmion, "The World" BBC/Public Radio International - Iran
Kavita Menon, freelance writer - Sri Lanka
Noel Paul, Christian Science Monitor - Russia
Noy Thrupkaew, freelance writer - Cambodia
The latest Fellows were selected by a panel of distinguished journalists and scholars that included: Simon Li, assistant managing editor of the Los Angeles Times; Susan Collins, senior fellow, Brookings Institution; Jamila Paksima, freelance video journalist and IRP Fellow alumna; George de Lama, deputy managing editor, Chicago Tribune; Robert DeVecchi, adjunct senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Parisa Khosravi, senior vice president and managing editor, CNN; Nadya Shmavonian, independent consultant, and Seymour Topping, professor of journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
The next deadline for applications is October 1, 2003 for the program beginning in January 2004. For more information, call (202) 663-7761, fax (202) 663-7762, e-mail irp@jhu.edu or see the website at: www.pewfellowships.org.
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