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World Affairs Journalism Fellowship Program
Bringing the World Home to U.S. Audiences
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| Former World Affairs Fellow Johnathan Nelson interviews a woman in Peru. During his fellowship Nelson did a series of stories on the coffee industry, one of the world's largest commodities with over $70 billion in sales annually |
The World Affairs Journalism Fellowships are based on the belief that news from beyond U.S. borders is more important than ever in a world of increasing global connectivity. U.S. audiences need to know how their lives are affected by international stories on such issues as business, immigration, terrorism and security, and health and the environment. But the growing importance of these stories comes at a time when many U.S. news organizations are cutting back on international coverage.
Under this program, experienced journalists from U.S. community-based newspapers, broadcast outlets and web-based media travel overseas for about two weeks to report on stories that matter in their local communities. Journalists from across the country submit proposals for projects exploring the links between their local communities and another country. A distinguished panel of judges chooses eight to ten journalists to receive fellowships.
After a week-long orientation in Washington, D.C., World Affairs Journalism Fellows travel overseas to report their stories. Their work is then published or broadcast in their media outlets. ICFJ covers all expenses for the orientation and overseas reporting. The Fellowship does not pay salaries for journalists on the program.
By supporting overseas reporting projects, the fellowships enhance American understanding of the relationship between local and international issues.
Program News Highlights
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 by 2009 World Affairs Fellow Elahe Izadi
Elahe Izadi traveled to El Salvador in February to examine the impact of the U.S. recession on local immigrants working to send money to their families and communities in El Salvador.
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.jpg) By 2009 World Affairs Fellow Krista Kapralos
SEGOU, Mali--Usually, nothing much changes in this dust-choked West African city. Families live in mud-built huts along the Niger River, where fishermen in paddle-powered boats cast nets for catfish and carp. The weekly market announces itself by sending out a pungent stench, from pile after pile of cured fish.
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 by 2009 World Affairs Fellow Tim Elfrink
Moises Chambi needs only two tools to survive on the world's largest salt flat: a wooden-handled pickax and a shovel beaten into a worn fold. The 23-year-old with sun-darkened skin, prominent cheekbones, and a quick, sarcastic smile grunts softly as he repeatedly slams his ax into the parched earth of Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni. As the sun sinks behind mountains floating over the unbroken white plain, he shovels gleaming chunks of salt into waist-high pyramids to dry.
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  by 2009 World Affairs Fellow Whit Richardson
In the dingy shipyard of Guaymas, Mexico, several men gather around a black, geodesic cage large enough to encapsulate a Hummer. The men, in their T-shirts and jeans, bolt one triangular section to another as the black sphere continues to take shape. Covered in a fine black wire mesh, the panels offer welcome shade on a scorching afternoon in November. On the other side of the yard sit two giant domes made of the same triangular panels, two halves of a cage that dwarfs the one the men are working on now.
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 by 2009 World Affairs Fellow Tim Elfrink
Etelvina's tears fall to the cracked wooden floorboards. They land on the same spot where her 8-year-old daughter, Marlene, bled to death in her arms. The pane of glass shattered by the bullet that killed the girl is unchanged. And there's still a pit in the mud brick wall that stopped the slug after it ripped into her tiny chest and ricocheted off her spine.
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 "The lasting gain of the fellowship is a new commitment to international stories with a local impact"
--Matthew Dolan, The Virginian-Pilot
2002 Fellow
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