Gatekeeper Trips
Spring 2007 Gatekeeper Editor Stéphanie Giry, senior editor at Foreign Affairs, during a meeting with the Emir of Kano, Nigeria.
Twice a year up to 12 U.S. “gatekeeper” editors will be awarded fellowships to travel as a group on an intensive fact-finding visit to a single important but somewhat under covered country in the news. Since 2000, visits for gatekeepers have been organized to Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa, Lebanon/Syria, India, Egypt, Nigeria, Korea, Uganda, Turkey and Kenya.
Gatekeepers are defined as any journalists in supervisory positions at any type of media who help to determine what news items will be selected for publication or broadcast. In the past, gatekeepers have included editors-in-chief, executive editors, managing editors, senior producers, foreign editors, editorial page editors, wire editors, national editors, news editors and other similar positions. Gatekeepers must be U.S. citizens or else working as fulltime staff editors in the U.S. for a U.S.-based news organization.
All costs of travel, meals and accommodations during the gatekeeper trips are paid for by the International Reporting Project unless a news organization prefers to pay its editor’s own expenses. Gatekeepers are responsible for paying the costs of their passport, visa and immunization fees, as well as the cost of transportation between their home cities and the gateway city from which the gatekeepers’ trip will depart.
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