JHU SAIS International Reporting Project Selects 12 Senior News Editors for Gatekeepers Trip to Korea
The International Reporting Project (IRP) at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) has chosen 12 senior editors and producers from across the United States to participate in an intensive 11-day visit to Korea this 11/as part of the IRP's annual "Gatekeeper Editors" fellowships.
The Korea trip is the eighth Gatekeepers trip since the program began in 2000. Previous IRP Gatekeeper editors have traveled to Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa, Lebanon/Syria, India, Egypt and Nigeria. The purpose of the trips is to give senior U.S. editors an opportunity to learn about issues in important but under-covered countries around the world so they can improve their news organizations' reporting on global issues.
"We're delighted to have such a great group going to the Korean peninsula at a time of possibly historic developments there," said John Schidlovsky, director of the IRP. "The organizations represented by these senior editors and producers reach more than 40 million readers and listeners each week."
The Gatekeepers trip is part of the IRP's overall programs to encourage the U.S. media's coverage of international issues.
Editors selected for the Korea trip, scheduled for 11/2-14/2007, are:
Rob Davila, world news editor, Seattle Times
Will Englund, associate editorial page editor, The Baltimore Sun
Paul Feldman, assistant foreign editor, Los Angeles Times
Morgan Holm, vice president, news and public affairs, Oregon Public Broadcasting
Ray Locker, national security editor, USA Today
Mark Melnicoe, national editor, The Sacramento Bee
Michael Mosettig, senior producer, PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Lisa Mullins, anchor/senior producer, PRI/BBC/WGBH "The World"
Patrick Pexton, deputy editor, The National Journal
Madhulika Sikka, senior supervising producer, NPR "Morning Edition"
Randall Smith, deputy managing editor, The Kansas City Star
Elizabeth Sullivan, associate editor, editorial pages, Cleveland Plain Dealer
The editors will meet with a wide cross-section of Korean leaders in politics, business, academics, religion, media, medicine and health, technology, arts and culture and other areas. The IRP is seeking permission to visit North Korea as well as South Korea.
Each year, the IRP conducts two separate Gatekeeper Editors trips. In addition to the Gatekeeper Fellowships, the IRP continues to offer individual fellowships to U.S. reporters to come to Washington and travel overseas on five-week reporting trips. These IRP Fellowships are offered in the fall of each year.
Major support for the Korea trip is provided by the Stanley Foundation of Muscatine, Iowa. Additional support for the Gatekeepers program is provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York and other non-governmental donors.
IRP is based at SAIS, one of the country's leading graduate schools devoted to the study of international relations. Located in downtown Washington, the school enrolls more than 450 full-time graduate students and mid-career professionals and has trained more than 13,000 alumni in all aspects of international affairs.