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IRP Fellow in The Atlantic: "As Go the Hippos" Under the weight of Congo’s civil war, an ecosystem collapses
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photo by: Delphine Schrank |
The destabilizing effects of the Congo's ongoing conflict have now begun to wreak havoc for the region's ecosystem.
In this report for The Atlantic, 2008 IRP Fellow Delphine Schrank explores the environmental impacts of the civil war.
Read Schrank's report and watch a video created for The Atlantic
Gatekeeper Editors Selected for Kenya Trip
12-day trip to include meetings with Kenyan leaders
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Nairobi, Kenya |
The International Reporting Project (IRP) has chosen 12 senior editors and producers from across the United States to participate in a 12-day trip to Kenya as part of the IRP’s annual “Gatekeeper Editors” fellowships.
The Gatekeepers will meet with a wide range of Kenyan leaders in fields such as politics, business, media, medicine and health, education, environment, agriculture, arts and culture and other areas.
Editors selected for the Kenya trip, scheduled for May 30-June 12, are:
Andrea Lynn Crossan, News Producer, "The World,” BBC/PRI
Kitty Eisele, Supervisory Senior Editor, "Morning Edition," NPR
Stephanie Hanson, News editor, CFR.org, Council on Foreign Relations
Richard Just, Managing editor, The New Republic
Margaret McElligott, Senior producer, Washingtonpost.com
Miriam Pepper, Vice president, editorial page, Kansas City Star
Dante Ramos, Deputy editorial page editor, Boston Globe
Monica Richardson, Beat department leader, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Linda Roth, Executive Producer, CNN Washington
Debra Adams Simmons, Managing Editor, The Plain Dealer
Jim Simon, Assistant Managing Editor, Seattle Times
Greg Winter, Assistant Foreign Editor, The New York Times
Read more about the Kenya trip
Mexico's Other Dangerous Border
IRP Fellow reports from Mexico
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2008 IRP Fellow Macarena Hernandez |
Macarena Hernandez is an IRP Fellow who spent five-weeks traveling along Mexico’s southern border reporting on the dangerous journey north for many Central Americans.
On her return, she sat down with IRP Director John Schidlovsky to discuss the immigration stories that go untold in the U.S. media.
68 Million Congolese Can't Be Wrong
IRP Fellow reports from DRC
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photo by: Delphine Schrank |
Delphine Schrank is an IRP Fellow who spent five weeks reporting from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where decades of conflict have left the country's eastern area prone to violence and turmoil.
In this report for Foreign Policy Schrank takes a look at Congolese nationalism, possibly the only thing keeping the country all in one piece.
Read Schrank's report for Foreign Policy
Iraqi expats join the Swedish labor pool
IRP Fellow Alisa Roth Reports from Sweden
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2008 IRP Fellow Alisa Roth |
One Swedish city used to brag that it took in more Iraqi refugees than the entire U.S., until it ran out of jobs for the new expats. Now other towns in Sweden are trying to lure refugees with career opportunities. Alisa Roth traveled to Sweden on an IRP Fellowship and filed this report for "Marketplace."
Obama in Turkey
See new video reports on Turkey from IRP trip
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Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan |
President Obama has chosen Turkey as the first Muslim country he has visited as president. The IRP Gatekeeper Editors recently visited Turkey for an in-depth look at the country. Shayla Harris, a video journalist with The New York Times, accompanied the IRP group and has produced two videos about the country. One video examines the issue of secularism in Turkey and the other reports on health care in the rural, mostly Kurdish, areas of eastern Turkey.
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To receive a free DVD, “Turkey in Transition,” with these videos and other stories on Turkey, email us with your name and postal address at irp@jhu.edu.
IRP Fellow receives honor for Fellowship photo
Image part of DC photo Exhibit
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The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) has selected a picture taken by David Rochkind during his 2008 IRP Fellowship to South Africa as an honorable mention in their 2009 Best of Photojournalism contest. The contest is one of the largest and most prestigious photo journalism contests in the world. The selected image was one of a series of photographs taken by Rochkind depicting the impact of Tuberculosis (TB) in the South African gold mining communities.
The photographs from Rochkind’s 2008 IRP Fellowship are on display as part of a photography exhibition at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars based in Washington DC. The photos will be on display through May 15, 2009.
Click here to see more photos from Rochkind's 2008 IRP Fellowship
Why is Foreign Aid Failing Haiti?
IRP Fellow reports from Haiti
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photo by: Roberto "Bear" Guerra |
During her five-week IRP Fellowship Ruxandra Guidi traveled to Haiti to examine the effects of foreign aid on human rights, violence and poverty. This stirring gallery, with photos by Roberto "Bear" Guerra and music by Luis Guerra, depicts some of Haiti's harsh realities.
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Read excerpts of a conversation on Haiti with Guidi and IRP Director John Schidlovsky
"The World, in Eight Weeks"
Johns Hopkins Magazine's February feature story on the IRP
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Cover photo by: David Rochkind |
As news organizations pare down or eliminate their foreign bureaus, the Johns Hopkins-based International Reporting Project's (IRP) non-profit model may be the natural evolution of international news coverage.
In its February cover story, Johns Hopkins Magazine, Senior Writer Michael Anft explores the new trends in journalism and how the IRP is trying to bridge the news gap between Americans and the rest of the world.
Read Michael Anft's piece, "The World, in Eight Weeks"
Japan's New Leadership Role
IRP Fellow reports from Tokyo
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Amelia Newcomb is an IRP Fellow who recently traveled to Japan where she explored the country's ascending role as a global influence on the green movement and popular culture.
The Christian Science Monitor has produced a three part series, "Japan Influential: Lessons in softer power,"
with the reporting done during Newcomb's Fellowship.
Read excerpts of a conversation on Japan with Newcomb and IRP Director John Schidlovsky
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