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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 Krista Kapralos
World Vision hires only Christians under its $250 million in US government foreign aid grants. Obama promised to change that. So why hasn't he?
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Read 2009 World Affairs Fellow Whit Richardson's experiences as he investigates aquaculture from Mexico and Panama.
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Washington, D.C.–The International Center for Journalists will send eight American journalists abroad in 2009 to cover global stories of particular importance to their local communities. This year’s World Affairs Journalism Fellowship Program will send its first pair of reporters from different media organizations to investigate a Latin American street gang operating in El Salvador and Washington, DC.
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Washington, D.C. – Thirteen top U.S. journalists selected as World Affairs Journalism Fellows will spend up to three weeks abroad reporting on issues that are vital to their local communities. The group is in Washington, D.C. this week for training, brainstorming sessions, and an event, open to the public, featuring longtime foreign correspondent for ABC News: John Donvan.
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 Few countries are more important for Americans to understand than India, the world's second most populous nation. For our 2008-2009 World Affairs Journalism Fellowships, ICFJ received a flood of proposals for in-depth reporting projects in India, and that country was featured in four of the eight projects we selected. The resulting reports linked U.S. communities with trends in business, medicine and immigration in the rapidly growing South Asian economy.
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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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