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ICFJ's programs for Asian journalists

Strengthening Media in Timor-Leste
In a two-year project, the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is working to develop a media institute and news agency in Timor-Leste. The aim is to improve the ability of Timorese journalists to produce and disseminate high quality news, particularly in the run up to nationwide elections in 2007.

Training for Tsunami-hit newsrooms
Knight International Press Fellows help television and print media in Aceh Province, Indonesia, recover in the wake of the Dec. 26, 2004 earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 125,000 people in the province and damaged or destroyed half of its leading city, Banda Aceh. Fellows will provide training on newspaper business management, photojournalism, print journalism and television journalism.

Improving Media Management Skills - The Economic Observer, China
The program brought 12 business managers from the Beijing-based business weekly The Economic Observer to the United States for ten days of training on business management, advertising and circulation. Participants attended workshops in Washington, and visited newspapers in Washington and New York where they will be briefed by management staff on U.S. media operations.

International Journalism Exchange
Ten foreign editors will spend five weeks in the United States to learn about newspaper management. The program will include a five-day course in Washington, D.C., a month-long newsroom attachment and three days in New York City.
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Application Deadline: June 1

Scripps Howard Semester in Washington Internship Program
ICFJ brings three journalism students per year to participate in the Scripps Howard Semester in Washington internship program. ICFJ brings one student to Washington for the spring, summer and fall sessions.
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Application Deadlines: October 1, March 1 and June 1

News

Aceh photojournalist makes the front page after ICFJ training

Fellows in region

Tsunami Knight Fellowships providing media assistance to print journalists in Aceh Province, Indonesia, in the wake of the Dec. 26, 2004 earthquake and tsunami.

Carolyn Robinson
Aug. 15. 2005- Sept. 30, 2005

Jim Simon
Aug. 15. 2005- Sept. 30, 2005

Chris Braithwaite
May 23, 2005 - June 29, 2005

Knight International Journalism Fellowships:

Georgia Scott in Indonesia
Departs June 2006

Nailene Wiest in China
March 1, 2006 - Sept. 1, 2006

James Walker in Mongolia
Nov. 2, 2005 - April 20, 2006

Beth Erickson in Vietnam
Sept. 28, 2005 - Feb.28, 2005

Jacqueline Frank in Bangladesh
Oct. 4, 2005 - May 4, 2006

Suzanne Sataline in Bangladesh
April 1, 2005 - July 30, 2005
2005 Knight Fellow Suzanne Sataline worked with the Bangladesh Centre for Development, Journalism and Communication in Dhaka.

Jessica Smith in Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos
Jan. 1, 2005 - May 2005
2005 Knight Fellow Jessica Smith provided media training in Cambodia.

Michelle Foster in Cambodia
March 1, 2004 - Aug. 31, 2004
2004 Knight Fellow Michelle Foster provided media assistance to the Independent Journalism Foundation.
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Michael Fowler & Susan Postlewaite in India
Aug. 1, 2003 - July 1, 2004
Fowler and Postlewaite spent nine months working at IIJNM in Bangalore.
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Paula Green in Sri Lanka
Feb. 1, 2004 - May 6, 2004
2004 Knight Fellow Paula Green provided media assistance to the Sri Lanka Environmental Journalists Forum (SLEJF).
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