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Alumni News and Notes
March 1 , 2005
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Josh Benton with former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda
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Josh Benton
Fall 2003 IRP Fellow
Fall 2003 IRP Fellow Josh Benton was recently awarded First Prize for Beat Reporting, Large Media or Market in the 2004 National Awards for Education. The annual contest honors the best education reporting in print and broadcast media. Josh’s prize-winning entry included one of the stories he wrote about Zambia as part of his IRP Fellowship. For more information about the National Awards for Education Reporting, please visit their website at www.ewa.org.
January 5, 2005
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Sarah Colt
Spring 2004 IRP Fellow
Spring 2004 IRP Fellow Sarah Colt is re-locating to Washington, DC to work with Hedrick Smith Productions producing one hour of a two hour series about education for PBS. The series will examine successful models for failing public schools.
December 20, 2004
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Daphne Eviatar |
Daphne Eviatar
Fall 2003 IRP Fellow
Fall 2003 IRP Fellow Daphne Eviatar has been selected as a 2005 Alicia Patterson Foundation Journalism Fellow. Daphne's story topic will be the "Perils and Promise of South American Petroleum Wealth."
According to the Foundation press release: "Recipients spend their fellowship months traveling, researching, and writing articles on their projects for the APF REPORTER, a quarterly magazine published by the Foundation and available via Web site. Fellows' articles and photo essays are reprinted in newspapers, magazines, and websites worldwide."
For more information about the Alicia Patterson Foundation and their journalism fellowship program, please visit them on the web at: http://www.aliciapatterson.org.
November 17 , 2004
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Laurel Bowman
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Laurel Bowman
Spring 2002 IRP Fellow
Spring 2002 IRP Fellow Laurel Bowman's documentary "The Healer's Way" airs Thursday, November 18th at 9pm on PBS's WHUT, on the station's "On Africa" program. The documentary profiles traditional healer Bongo Mzizi as he works to aid the HIV/AIDS victims in his Tanzanian village. Bowman travels deep into the East African bush with Mzizi, where he searches for scarce roots to make his herbal remedies. She also visits the large government hospital that Mzizi supplies with herbal medicine, the only available treatment for AIDS patients in the region. "The Healer's Way" examines the attempts by several African governments to integrate traditional medicine into their national healthcare systems and the controversial results of that policy.
WHUT is available in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Its "On Africa" program was launched in 2002 as an outlet for work by African producers and about African issues -- from current affairs and politics to music and art. The station is operated by Howard University.
October 12, 2004
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Quil Lawrence, Farouk and Nathan Hodge
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David "Quil" Lawrence
Spring 2000 IRP Fellow
Nathan Hodge
Spring 2004 IRP Fellow
Two former IRP Fellows recently met up in Afghanistan in October, where they are covering that country’s elections. Quil, on the left, has made several visits to that country over the past few years as a correspondent for the BBC’s “The World.” Nathan, on the right, is making a return visit to that country as a working journalist. In the center is an Afghan friend of theirs named Farouk.
Kira Kay
Spring 2004 IRP Fellow
Jason Maloney
Spring 1999 IRP Fellow
Kira and Jason combined to report on a story that was broadcast this month on “60 Minutes” about the refugee camps in Chad that hold thousands of refugees from the Darfur area of Sudan. Kira writes: “We had flown down to the Darfur region from N'Djamena (the capital of Chad, which these days is swarming with oil workers from Texas and Louisiana in real wild west mode). We went by tiny prop plane, which in the desert heat did something I can only liken to a hula – not up and down and not side to side, but both. While Jason was crossing borders, I was spending my time in the refugee camps on the Chad side, run by the IRC and UNHCR. It was the farthest ‘out there' I have been, a great learning experience in understanding how tough emergency response can be on the NGO workers, and how hard life is on locals in such an inhospitable corner of the world.
“The temperatures were around 120 degrees, and we faced a dwindling water supply that led us to drink lake water that had been filtered and refiltered to an off shade of orange. We had some laughs, too (it was donkey mating season in the desert) and watched a moon rise over our ‘beds’ (mattresses in the sand) that shone as brightly as the sunrise that followed a short few hours later.”
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Antrim Caskey
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Chris Hondros
Spring 2001 IRP Fellow
Antrim Caskey
Fall 2003 IRP Fellow
Two photojournalist alums have been on the presidential campaign swing this year. Chris’s photo of the first presidential debate was the cover of Newsweek this month. Antrim photographed the protests at the Democratic National Convention. Her photos can be seen at: http://antrimcaskey.com/photos.php?id=174.
Edie Rubinowitz
Spring 1999 IRP Fellow
Edie is the Health Action AIDS Media Coordinator for Physicians for Human Rights. The Boston-based group, which shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, was founded in 1986 and seeks to “mobilize health professions to promote health by protecting human rights.” Health Action AIDS is a project that is run in coordination with Partners in Health.
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Joe Rubin
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Joe Rubin
Fall 2001 IRP Fellow
Joe has been named a Knight International Press Fellow to train journalists in Latin America. The fellowship, administered by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), will run through the end of the year and will take Joe to El Salvador, Panama and Ecuador to teach and train local journalists.
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Kai Wright
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IRP Fellows at UNITY 2004
Sumana Chatterjee, Fall 2000
Jessie Graham, Spring 2002
Shayla Harris, Spring 2003
Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Spring 2004
Marc Ramirez, Fall 2001
Noy Thrupkaew, Fall 2003
Kai Wright, Fall 1999
Each of these former IRP Fellows stopped by the IRP Fellowships booth at the UNITY 2004: Journalists of Color, Inc., convention in Washington in August. Attended by more than 8,000 journalists from around the world, the convention featured workshops, appearances by both major presidential candidates and great networking opportunities. The former IRP Fellows helped the program staff to disseminate information about the fellowships to hundreds of potential applicants. Among the convention’s speakers was Kai, who earlier in the year was awarded a Kaiser Media Mini-Fellowship to report on HIV/AIDS in the New York state prison system.
Alumni news archive: April - May 2004
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