International Reporting Project Fellows Selected at JHU SAIS for Spring 2005 Program
Washington, D.C. - Eight U.S. journalists have been awarded International Reporting Project (IRP) Fellowships at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University. The four-month fellowship, part of a program aimed at improving the quality of international news in the U.S. media, begins 01/17/2005.
The U.S. journalists will focus on stories in Algeria, Colombia, Ghana, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, Pakistan, Russia and Thailand. The journalists are among 114 IRP Fellows selected since the program began in 1998. The program combines 10 weeks of study in Washington and five weeks of individual overseas reporting.
"This is our 14th group, and we continue to add new countries for the journalists' destinations," said John Schidlovsky, IRP program director. This is the first time IRP Fellows have been selected to report in Algeria, Ghana, Mozambique and Pakistan. Since 1998, Fellows have reported from more than 70 different countries.
Each year, two groups of U.S. journalists are selected as IRP Fellows. 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.journalismfellowships.org.
The IRP Fellows for spring 2005, their affiliations at the time of selection and the countries on which they will focus are:
Ryan Anson, freelancer photographer, Washington D.C. - Thailand
Aryn Baker, associate editor, TIME Asia, Hong Kong - Pakistan
Adam Graham-Silverman, reporter, Congressional Quarterly - Mozambique
Raffi Khatchadourian, fact-checker, The New Yorker - Algeria
Cathryn Poff, producer, KRON TV-4, San Francisco - Ghana
Fernanda Santos, reporter, New York Daily News - Colombia
Kelly Whalen, freelance video, Oakland - Russia
Mary Wiltenburg, freelance writer, St. Louis - Kazakhstan
Two of the IRP Fellows, Graham-Silverman and Wiltenburg, are focusing on international health issues. Each year, four IRP fellowships are supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support coverage of global health issues.
The spring 2005 Fellows were selected by a committee of distinguished journalists that included: Ariana Cha, reporter, The Washington Post and an IRP alumna; Sumana Chatterjee, reporter, Knight Ridder Newspapers and an IRP alumna; Tim Connolly, international editor, Dallas Morning News; Jennifer Lawson, general manager, WHUT-TV, Washington, D.C.; Chuck Lewis, executive director, Center for Public Integrity; Barbara Rehm della Porta, managing editor, National Public Radio and Ronald Royhab, executive editor, The (Toledo) Blade.
The next deadline for applications is 04/1/2005 for the program beginning in 09/2005. For more information, call 202.663.7761, fax 202.663.7762 or email [email protected].
The International Reporting Project is supported by grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Philip L. Graham Fund, the New York Times Company Foundation and others. The program 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 11,000 alumni in all aspects of international affairs.
For more information, contact Felisa Neuringer Klubes in the SAIS Public Affairs Office at 202.663.5626 or [email protected].