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The International Center for Journalists runs practical, hands-on programs and events for journalists around the world. From courses and workshops on the latest digital trends, to conferences that gather top international journalists to discuss important issues, there are a range of ways for journalists to get involved.

  • Download with iCal Dec31

    > Story Contest for Best Coverage of Infectious Diseases

    08/01/2013

    These African women are holding bed nets, which will help protect their families from mosquitoes carrying malaria. Photo: Gates Foundation

    Journalists from the United States, Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa can win international reporting trips worth up to $10,000 for submitting the best stories on infectious diseases.

    Stories can address diseases including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. These three diseases alone are the leading causes of death in low- and middle-income countries. They claim nearly 4 million lives every year and cost billions of dollars in lost productivity.

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    07/23/2013 - 09/30/2013 > 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.

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    08/22/2013 - 09/08/2013 > 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.

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    09/04/2013 - 12/10/2013 > Scripps Howard Semester in Washington Internship Program

    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.

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    09/10/2013 - 10/28/2013 > U.S.-Austrian Journalism Exchange Fellowships

    05/06/2013

    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.

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    10/02/2013 - 10/22/2013 > 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.

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    10/06/2013 - 11/09/2013 > 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.

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    11/07/2013 > 2013 Awards Dinner

    Each year, the International Center for Journalists Awards Dinner honors the achievements of colleagues whose outstanding news reports or media innovations have made a huge impact. For one inspiring evening in Washington, U.S. headliners join overseas journalists to showcase the power of quality information.

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