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IRP Fellows for Spring 2007 Program Announced
Washington, DC, November 27, 2006 – Seven U.S. journalists, including the third recipient of the NPR-Bucksbaum International Fellowship, have been awarded International Reporting Project (IRP) Fellowships in Washington D.C. for the Spring 2007 program.
The 14-week fellowships, which are aimed at encouraging coverage of international issues by the U.S. news media, begin in January 2007 at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University.
The U.S. journalists will focus on stories in Afghanistan, China, Lebanon, Liberia, Mexico, Senegal and South Africa. The IRP program combines nine weeks of study in Washington and five weeks of individual overseas reporting. This is the first time IRP Fellows have been selected to report in Afghanistan, Liberia and Senegal.
The seven Fellows include one journalist who will receive an additional six weeks of training with National Public Radio as the NPR-Bucksbaum International Fellow, a position made possible by a grant from Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum. The recipient of that fellowship is Shereen Meraji, a radio journalist from Los Angeles. During her NPR training, she will focus on production, editorial and on-air skills, and produce a project for one of NPR’s newsmagazines.
The IRP Fellows for Spring 2007, their affiliations and the countries on which they will focus are:
Vanessa Gezari, national reporter, St. Petersburg Times – Liberia
Steve Kiehl, staff writer, Baltimore Sun – Mexico
Nikole Killion, anchor/reporter, WJLA NewsChannel 8, Arlington, VA – South Africa
Christina Larson, managing editor, Washington Monthly – China
Shereen Meraji, associate producer, National Public Radio, Los Angeles – Lebanon
Jessica Reaves, reporter, Chicago Tribune – Senegal
Greg Warner, freelance reporter, WHYY-FM, Philadelphia – Afghanistan
Two of the spring 2007 IRP Fellows, Killion and Reaves, are focusing on international health issues. Each year, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provides support for IRP Fellows to cover global health issues. Since 1998, 145 journalists have been selected as IRP Fellows and have reported from more than 75 different countries.
The next deadline for applications for the IRP Fellowships and the NPR-Bucksbaum International Fellowship is April 1, 2007 for the Fall 2007 program. For more information, call (202) 663-7761, fax (202) 663-7762, email irp@jhu.edu or click here. For additional information on the NPR-Bucksbaum International Fellowship, click here.
The International Reporting Project is grateful for the generous support of the Pew Charitable Trusts, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Stanley Foundation, Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum, the New York Times Company Foundation and others. The IRP Fellowships program is based at SAIS, one of the country’s leading graduate schools devoted to the study of international relations. Located in downtown Washington, the school enrolls more than 450 full-time graduate students and mid-career professionals and has trained more than 13,000 alumni in all aspects of international affairs.
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