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The International Reporting Project
The International Reporting Project is designed to educate U.S. journalists about global issues and to increase and improve the coverage of international topics in the U.S. news media. It does so through a variety of fellowships, conferences, seminars, fact-finding visits and publications to meet the needs of all levels of journalists: early-career, mid-career and senior journalists.
The Program is based in Washington, D.C. at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University. Journalists involved in the International Reporting Project have access to some of the world's leading specialists in international issues at SAIS and other institutions. Located in the heart of downtown Washington, near think tanks, embassies and government offices, SAIS enrolls more than 550 full-time graduate students and mid-career professionals and has trained more than 13,000 alumni in all aspects of international affairs. Its distinguished faculty includes some of the nation's leading experts in global issues.
The core of the Program is the “IRP Fellowships in International Journalism,” which each fall brings a group of U.S. journalists to Washington to prepare for an international reporting trip. Since the Program's founding in 1998, more than 145 IRP Fellows in International Journalism have participated in the fellowship program that includes a five-week overseas reporting project. Fellows cover stories on topics including international health and medical issues such as malaria, TB, HIV/AIDS, and child survival, the world of Islam, refugees and migration issues, women's and children's rights, press freedom, cultural and social change, human rights, economic development and post-conflict resolution. Stories by IRP Fellows have won major awards, and have appeared in many of the country's best news media.
Also offered by the Program are the "Gatekeeper Editors" fellowships for editors whose jobs require them to determine what gets on the air or online or in print at their news organizations. Each year, two groups of gatekeeper editors are selected to visit an important country in the news.
The "Journalist-in-Residence" fellowship enables senior journalists, in many cases veteran foreign correspondents, to spend from one to eight months in Washington to work on a book or other project about international affairs. The Journalist-in-Residence is also expected to conduct a seminar on his or her work.
The Program also organizes occasional conferences and public events on international news coverage. In 2007 the Program held a conference at SAIS on covering the war in Iraq and the future of international news in the U.S. media. In 2005 the Program invited video journalists from around the country to Pocantico Hills Conference Center to discuss the future of international broadcast news. In 2003 the Program held a conference at SAIS on engaging young people in international news. In 2002 a conference on the impact of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 was held at the National Press Club. In 2001 the Program held a conference at Columbia University on digital video reporting.
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