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The Election 2008 Visiting Journalists Program

October 22 - November 6, 2008

Barack Obama at a rally
Barack Obama speaking at a Nov. 3 rally in Manassas, VA
Readers and listeners all over the world enjoyed special insight into the U.S. presidential election as a result of the Elections 2008 Visiting Journalists Program, which brought 48 journalists from 46 countries to cover the historic campaign and vote.

The program, which ran from Oct. 22 to Nov. 6, was designed to let the journalists see American democracy at work. To achieve that goal, it placed them at the center of the electoral storm.

The visiting journalists fanned out to battleground states around the country and worked in newsrooms as far north as New Hampshire, as far south as Florida and as far West as Colorado, reporting alongside American reporters and watching both the political process and the role of the U.S. media.

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Program News
TatjanaBy Tatjana Aleksic

Wednesday night in Washington ... people standing in lines. On every corner there is line. “What is happening?” I asked. People were saying “nothing, we are waiting for the newspaper. They are waiting for the “Washington Post” special edition. They buying 5 copies, they want to keep it for their grandchildren."   Read More...

ICFJ organized briefings for 48 visiting journalists from around the world, with political scholars and media leaders who discussed the presidential campaign and election process.   Read More...

DediBy Dedi Irawan

Barack Obama's name has become so popular in Indonesia, far away from his U.S. presidency. It’s because Obama spent three or four years of his childhood in Indonesia.   Read More...

VernonBy Vernon Davidson

“Think about it,” Alethia Lambert and Fern Whyte insisted after I told them I would choose one of my reporters to send on the U.S. State Department’s Election 2008 Visiting Journalists Program.   Read More...

By Arundhati Mukherjee
 
When I received confirmation from ICFJ and also from the American center, that ICFJ had selected me to cover the American polls, I leapt for joy.  Most of the American media predicted that the anti-incumbency factor of the Bush administration was working very strongly in the country. George Bush had become more unpopular, which threatened the Republican candidate’s chance of winning. When the Democrats chose an African-American as their presidential candidate I was thrilled. It no longer remained a subject of international politics, but went beyond that. The fact that the   Read More...

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This program is sponsored by:

The United States Department of State's U.S. Foreign Press Center



Click here to go to the home page for the Elections program
           

Click here to read the program agenda

Read the participant's blogs!

Participants are excited to share what they've learned:

BaradaCovering the 2008 US election in Ohio has been akin to the experience of witnessing a bloodless revolution in the making – and being part of the most seminal moments of the modern times. Read more!

Murtaza Ali Shah works for bi-lingual Pakistani newspaper The News/Daily Jang (UK edition)



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Elections Program
International Center for Journalists
1616 H Street NW, Third Floor
Washington, DC 20006

T: 202-737-3700
E: elections@icfj.org

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