ICFJ Programs in All Topics

  • U.S.- Pakistan Professional Partnership in Journalism

    In Partnership With: 
    United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP)

    A three-year, multi-phase program will bring 160 Pakistani media professionals to the United States and send 30 U.S. journalists to Pakistan. Journalists will study each others' cultures as they are immersed in newsrooms in each country.

    English-speaking Pakistanis will receive four-week internships at U.S. media organizations, and non-English speakers will spend half that time.

  • Public Service Journalism for Arabic-speaking Journalists

    The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) held a six-week online course in Arabic on using digital tools in public service journalism and investigative techniques. The online course was the first part of a program that brought together journalists, citizen journalists and civil society actors from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, West Bank/Gaza and Yemen. The six-week online course guided 60 participants from the above mentioned countries to work on ideas for multimedia public service journalism projects.

  • India: Use Mobile Technology to Bring News to Isolated Tribal Communities

    In Partnership With: 
    CGNet Swara

    Knight International Journalism Fellow Shubhranshu Choudhary’s mobile news service CGnet Swara (Voice of Chhattisgarh) is transforming how people in remote areas of India receive and share news.

    The system, developed with the help of Microsoft Research India, allows people to use mobile phones to send and listen to audio reports in their local language. This service circumvents India’s ban on private radio news and reaches people who never before had access to local news.

  • Exchange Program for Media Professionals from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and the United States

    The Exchange Program for Media Professionals from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and the United States, is a four-part, two-way media program run by ICFJ and funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

  • The Douglas Tweedale Memorial Fellowship

    The Douglas Tweedale Fellowship helps Latin American journalists improve their digital skills in specialty reporting in areas such as immigration, environment, science and technology or business and personal finance, through a three-week long program in the United States.

  • U.S.-Austrian Journalism Exchange Fellowships

    In Partnership With: 
    Kuratorium für Journalistenausbildung (KfJ)

    2010 fellows; from left to right: Peter Leinfellner, Susan Valot, Florian Niederndorfer and Emily Nipps visit The Washington Post during orientation.

    Each year three to six outstanding media professionals from the United States and Austria are awarded an opportunity to report from and travel in each other's countries as part of the U.S.-Austrian Journalism Exchange Fellowships. The program offers young print and broadcast journalists from each country the opportunity to share professional expertise with their colleagues across the Atlantic while working as "foreign correspondents" for their hometown news organizations.

  • Scripps Howard Semester in Washington Internship Program

    In Partnership With: 
    Scripps Howard Foundation

    The Scripps Howard Foundation Semester in Washington internship program brings two international students per year to Washington, D.C., to work at the Scripps Howard News Service for a semester. The internship is designed to give international students an opportunity to cover events in the U.S. capital, as well as to report and write feature stories for the Scripps Howard Foundation Wire.

  • Exchange Program for Media Professionals from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and the United States

    The Exchange Program for Media Professionals from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and the United States, is a four-part, two-way media program run by ICFJ and funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

  • Arthur F. Burns Fellowship

    Each year 20 outstanding media professionals from the United States and Germany are awarded an opportunity to report from and travel in each other's countries as part of The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program. The program offers 10 young print and broadcast journalists from each country the opportunity to share professional expertise with their colleagues across the Atlantic while working as "foreign correspondents" for their hometown news organizations.

    U.S. Applications were due on March 1, 2013. German Applications were due on February 1, 2013.

  • Media Educational Exchange Program for Georgian Journalists

    The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is now preparing for Georgian journalists to participate in the final year of the Media Educational Exchange Program, funded by the U.S. Embassy in Georgia through the Public Affairs Section, and implemented by ICFJ.

  • Brazil: Expand the Use of Satellite Mapping and Other Technologies to Improve Environmental Reporting

    In Partnership With: 
    O Eco
    In Partnership With: 
    Internews
    In Partnership With: 
    Development Seed
    In Partnership With: 
    Frontline SMS

    Knight International Journalism Fellow Gustavo Faleiros will build on the success of his 2012 Knight International Journalism Fellowship, when he launched a digital map that uses satellite feeds and other publicly available data to monitor the Amazon Basin region. He will expand the map, called InfoAmazonia, to make it possible for news websites to easily generate and publish customized maps on the environment.

  • Latin America: Improve Interactive Storytelling and Create a Corps of Tech-savvy Women in Newsrooms

    In Partnership With: 
    La Nación

    Knight International Journalism Fellow Mariana Santos will create teams of artists, developers and journalists to improve visual and interactive storytelling in Latin American media. This network will enrich story development, execution and digital delivery of news. Santos will introduce animation and other ways to use data in compelling ways in Brazil, Chile and Costa Rica. A key goal will be to create a corps of tech-savvy women in Latin American newsrooms.

  • Story Contest for Best Coverage of Vaccines

    In Partnership With: 
    African Health Journalists Association
    In Partnership With: 
    Arab Media Forum

    Journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa, Pakistan and the Gulf States have a chance to win a trip to the United States or cash prizes as part of three regional competitions to recognize the best media coverage of vaccines and immunizations.

    A child is vaccinated against meningitis. Photo: Gates Foundation

    Stories published or broadcast in Sub-Saharan Africa, Pakistan and the Gulf States between March 15 and May 15, 2013, which includes World Immunization Week (April 24-30), will qualify for the regional contests.

  • Chile: Expand Poderopedia, a Site Linking Business and Politics, Across the Region

    In Partnership With: 
    Poderomedia
    In Partnership With: 
    Hacks/Hackers Chile

    Knight International Journalism Fellow Miguel Paz will speed the development and use of the Knight News Challenge-winning platform Poderopedia, which reveals links among business and political leaders. He will bring Poderopedia to Venezuela and to other nations, creating a cross-border community that uses the platform. He will introduce customized versions of Poderopedia in newsrooms and civic media projects.

  • Argentina: Launch an Innovation Challenge to Promote the Development of Digital Media in Latin America

    In Partnership With: 
    Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires

    Knight International Journalism Fellow Mariano Blejman is creating the first news innovation contest in Latin America. Modeled on the African News Innovation Challenge, the contest will spur new technology that improves access to quality news and information. Blejman will upgrade the Hacks/Hackers network by running data boot camps and hackathons.

  • Fortalecimiento de periodismo de investigación y transparencia en México y Centroamérica

    ICFJ anuncia iniciativa de periodismo de investigación y seguridad para México y Centroamérica

    Los periodistas participantes deben tener un fuerte compromiso con el periodismo de investigación y deben estar dispuestos a trabajar en equipos a través de fronteras. Los periodistas que trabajan en México o Centroamérica en medios en línea, impresos, radio o televisión son elegibles para participar en este programa destinado a mejorar las habilidades del periodismo de investigación y fortalecer la seguridad de los periodistas en la región.

  • Strengthening Investigative Reporting and Transparency in Mexico and Central America

    ICFJ announces an investigative reporting initiative for Mexico and Central America.

    Participating journalists should have a strong commitment to investigative reporting and should be willing to work in teams across borders. Journalists working in Mexico or Central America for online, print or broadcast media are welcome to apply.

  • Beyond the Capitals: Exposing Regional U.K. Journalists to Politics Outside of Washington

    The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) has partnered with the U.S. Embassy London Public Affairs Office (PAO) to bring seven journalists from regional outlets in the United Kingdom to the United States to cover politics with an emphasis on the presidential inauguration, set for Monday, January 21. The program will offer the journalists a rare opportunity to travel to various U.S. states and learn about the impact of presidential politics on ordinary Americans “beyond the Beltway.”

  • The Elections 2012 Visiting Journalists Program

    Though the results of the 2012 U.S. Presidential elections were announced to the world on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 49 foreign journalists were able to provide first-hand reports on the outcome to their readers, listeners and viewers in their home countries. This opportunity came from their participation in The Elections 2012 Visiting Journalists Program.

  • McGraw-Hill Markets Reporting Program

    The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) offered two online courses in English and Spanish on intriguing topics such as how to plan for retirement, understanding your 401(k), stock and bond markets, mutual funds and private and public companies. These courses were available to U.S. journalists who reported in minority communities. The online courses took place from October 22, 2012 through December 16, 2012. All applicants were asked to propose a project that they developed throughout the length of the course.

  • Beyond the Border: Covering the Immigration Phenomenon through Digital Media

    In Partnership With: 
    Scripps Howard Foundation

    The Scripps Howard Immigration reporting training program brings together journalists from the U.S. Spanish and English-language media for a week-long training on how to cover immigration issues using multimedia tools.

    ICFJ is currently seeking applicants for the 2012 Scripps immigration reporting program. The program is scheduled to take place Sunday July 15, 2012 through Sunday July 22, 2012 in Washington, D.C.

    The application deadline is Monday May 28, 2012.

    The 2012 program will have a special focus on the U.S. 2012 presidential election and immigration.

  • Illuminating Today’s Japan for American Audiences

    A program, organized by ICFJ and funded by the United States-Japan Foundation, sent three U.S. journalists to Japan for 12-day reporting tours with the goal of shedding light on the relationship between the two nations and the aftermath of the disasters in March 2011. The participating journalists traveled in Japan for 12 days with an experienced Japanese journalist and interpreter, and were expected to dig into the economic, social, environmental and energy-policy challenges still facing Japan after the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

  • Brazil: Launch a Digital Map That Uses Open Data to Monitor the Amazon

    In Partnership With: 
    Folha de Sao Paulo
    In Partnership With: 
    ABRAJI

    Gustavo Faleiros is a Knight International Journalism Fellow based in Brazil who has created a comprehensive online map that makes extensive use of data to track the deteriorating environment of the nine-country Amazon region. The map—a mash-up of existing technologies such as satellite images, open data and media and social-media feeds—is hosted by partner O Eco, an environmental news site, and supported by a grant from Internews.

  • The Henry Luce Foundation Program to Promote Excellence in Global Coverage of Religion

    Continuing its efforts to improve coverage of religion around the world, ICFJ has launched a two-year program for American and international journalists who cover religious issues. By improving professional skills and increasing the dialogue around religion, ICFJ hopes to encourage journalists to engage the subject more openly and free of bias, and simultaneously more respectfully and critically.

    The program is designed to:

    • Improve U.S.

  • Argentina: Create Tools to Collect, Analyze and Visualize Data for Investigative Stories

    In Partnership With: 
    La Nación
    In Partnership With: 
    Foro de Periodismo Argentino (FOPEA)

    At La Nación, one of Argentina’s leading daily newspapers, Knight International Journalism Fellow Sandra Crucianelli is creating the first team of investigative journalists who can track tax revenues earmarked for the country’s crumbling public services. She is creating a team of data journalists who can extract and analyze information for investigative stories. And as part of this effort, she helped La Nación launch Argentina’s first data blog, where journalists post data-driven stories and invite the public to respond and engage.