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Timor Post editor to cover US election, thanks to State Department
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Location: Blogs Staff Blog for the Timor-Leste Media Program |
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| Posted by: ICFJ /East Timor Staff |
8/11/2008 |
Mouzinho Lopes de Araujo, editor-in-chief of the Timor Post, will be covering the US presidential election for his newspaper as one of 50 international journalists who will work with US media in the final weeks of the campaign.
The week ended on a high note with the news that Timor Post editor Mouzinho Lopes de Araujo beat out heavy competition to be chosen for the 2008 Elections Embed program of the Washington Foreign Press Center.
De Araujo will join 49 other journalists in the US for the final three weeks of the presidential campaign, filing stories from battleground states. He will be assigned to a US newspaper to get a first-hand look at all aspects of US elections coverage, from planning to hitting the campaign trail with the political reporters.
He was nominated for the honor by Roberto Quiroz, political and economic officer at the US Embassy in Dili, who, with consular official Germano da Costa Boavida, attended a small ceremony honoring DeAraujo at ICFJ's Dili office on Friday.
Patrick Butler, ICFJ vice president, said the Washington office hopes to organize additional training in newsroom management for DeAraujo during his visit to the US. |
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