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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 Patrick Madden
The pressure to produce big league prospects takes its toll on the Dominican Republic. The game of baseball has helped hundreds of players from the Dominican Republic lift their families out of poverty.
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 By 2009 World Affairs Fellow Elahe Izadi
Rosa and Luis Vasquez spend 10 hours a day, six or seven days a week, cleaning apartments and laying carpet to support their three school-age sons. When they return, exhausted, to the cramped two-bedroom apartment in Wheaton they share with a family of four, they ask their boys about their day.
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 By 2009 World Affairs Fellow Elahe Izadi
SAN SALVADOR -- When Jose and Maria Campos moved to El Salvador from a basement apartment in Langley Park in October, they moved into the spacious three-story house they spent nine years remodeling from thousands of miles away. It has a balcony and a garage, and cost them more than $60,000.
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 By 2009 World Affairs Fellow Maureen Sieh
After years in exile in US, refugees go back to southern Sudan to build schools and health clinics.
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 By 2009 World Affairs Fellow Sunita Sohrabji
DHARAVI, Mumbai – Sitabai’s workshop is the first point of entry into Sanola compound, a vast recycling vortex here in the midst of one of Asia’s largest slums.
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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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