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Gatekeeper Editors' Trip
Click here for information about Gatekeepers
2008: Turkey
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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 undercovered country in the news. Since 2000, visits for gatekeepers have been organized to Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa, Lebanon/Syria, India, Egypt, Nigeria and Korea.
The second 2008 IRP Gatekeeper Editors' Trip will take place September 14 through 25, 2008 in Turkey.
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.
Click here for more information on the upcoming trip to Turkey. The application deadline has passed.
For more information, please contact the International Reporting Project at 202-663-7761 or irp@jhu.edu.
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