The International Reporting Project at Johns Hopkins University is offering two international fellowships, including an all-expenses paid fellowship trip to Nigeria for senior level editors/producers.
The International Reporting Project at Johns Hopkins University is offering two international fellowships, including an all-expenses paid fellowship trip to Nigeria for senior level editors/producers.
IRP Gatekeeper Editors Trip
The International Reporting Project is pleased to announce an 11-day fellowship fact-finding trip to Nigeria for U.S. “gatekeeper” editors and producers interested in learning more about this important country. Gatekeepers are any senior journalists – executive editors, managing editors, broadcast producers, wire editors, editorial page editors, business editors, op-ed page editors and others – who help select editorial content. The IRP will take up to 12 U.S. gatekeepers on an all-expenses-paid fact-finding trip to Egypt from January 22 to February 1, 2007. You are invited to nominate yourself or another gatekeeper from your news organizations senior staff. Applications are available on www.internationalreportingproject.org.
Contact: irp@jhu.edu or 202-663-7761
Deadline: November 1, 2006
IRP Fellowships in International Journalism
October 1 is the deadline for journalists interested in health issues to apply for the International Reporting Project Fellowships. The 13-week fellowship runs from mid-January through April and provides U.S. journalists with eight weeks of study in Washington at The Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and five weeks of reporting overseas from any country on a topic of the journalist’s choice. Priority is given to applicants suggesting health-related topics. Open to any U.S. journalist with at least three years of professional journalistic experience in any medium. Fellows must be U.S. citizens or non-U.S. citizens who are working full-time for a U.S. news organization in the United States. The program offers a stipend of $2,000 a month while in Washington, in addition to paid hotel accommodations. For the five-week overseas period, Fellows receive a free roundtrip air ticket to the country of their choice and a $4,000 travel stipend. Applications are available at www.internationalreportingproject.org.
Contact: irp@jhu.edu or 202-663-7761
Deadline: October 1, 2006
