NEW YORK: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is launching the Knight New Media Center to help journalists adapt in the digital age. The center will be jointly operated by the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. The foundation granted $650,000 to fund the center in the...
IMPHAL, Mar 22: All Manipur Working Journalists` Union invites application from print and electronic journalist from Manipur for award of AMWJU Media Fellowship - 2006 on the theme Rural Development reporting in the state. Altogether four fellowships are to be awarded, three for print journalists and one for electronic journalist. However, the amount of the fellowships for both print and...
The Guwahati Press Club (GPC) is inviting applications from working journalists of Northeast India for the 2nd GNRC Media Fellowship. The fellowship programme was launched last year when three journalists were selected. The number of fellowships has been increased to four this year. The fellows, selected for the three-month-long programme, will receive a stipend of Rs 10,000 per month each. A...
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is inviting journalists with at least five years of full-time professional experience in the news media to apply for the 2007 Nieman International Fellowships. The deadline for the 2007 International Fellowships is December 15, 2005. Successful candidates will be notified by February 15, 2006. Awarded each year to 12 working journalists...
Accomplished journalists worldwide are eligible for a fellowship at Stanford University in the state of California, for nine months of independent study and reflection. The John S Knight Fellowships at Stanford are open to all kinds of journalists from outside the US, including anchors, photographers, Web editors, producers and cartoonists. The programme selects six to eight candidates with at...
Asian and Pacific journalists now have until October 26 to apply for a fellowship program that would send them to learn and travel with U.S. colleagues in Hawaii, India and Pakistan. The next Jefferson Fellowships are scheduled for February 5 to 26, organized by the Honolulu-based East-West Center. The program brings journalists from Asia, the Pacific and the U.S. together to learn about issues...
Over the past years, the digital technology and Internet has become a major arena for broadcast media. Web-based television broadcasting is proving an attractive field for traditional electronic media and for communication in various sectors. Panos South Asia (PSA) is organising a 7-day South Asian regional — TV, Digital Technology and Online Broadcasting Training Workshop’ for media practitioners...
Journalists have a key role to play in fighting corruption, drugs and other problems that afflict the world of sports. That’s a major premise of an upcoming conference on coverage and oversight of sports. Sports journalists from around the world will gather with executives and experts at Play the Game 2005, scheduled for November 6 to 10 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The theme is "Governance in Sport...
Broadcast journalists from developing countries have until November 1 to apply for funding to attend a course in the Netherlands on globalization and broadcast news. November 15 is the deadline for self-paying or sponsored journalists. The Radio Netherlands Training Centre (RNTC) is organizing the course, scheduled for February 6 to April 28 in Hilversum. Its aim is to better train broadcast...
The Irish Independent and The Limpopo Mirror newspaper in South Africa were jointly awarded the World Young Reader Prize by the World Association of Newspapers during a ceremony Monday in Buenos Aires, Argentina. La Prensa of Panama received a Jury Commendation from the Paris-based WAN. Special Mention awards went to The Hindustan Times in India and to The Record of Hackensack, New Jersey in the...
