ICFJ Programs in All Topics

  • U.S.- Pakistan Professional Partnership in Journalism

    In Partnership With: 
    United States Educational Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP)

    A three-year, multi-phase program will bring 128 Pakistani media professionals to the United States and send 30 U.S. journalists to Pakistan. Journalists will study each others' cultures as they are immersed in newsrooms in each country.

    English-speaking Pakistanis will receive four-week internships at U.S. media organizations, and non-English speakers will spend half that time.

  • Public Service Journalism for Arabic-speaking Journalists

    The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) held a six-week online course in Arabic on using digital tools in public service journalism and investigative techniques. The online course was the first part of a program that brought together journalists, citizen journalists and civil society actors from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, West Bank/Gaza and Yemen. The six-week online course guided 60 participants from the above mentioned countries to work on ideas for multimedia public service journalism projects.

  • India: Use Mobile Technology to Bring News to Isolated Tribal Communities

    In Partnership With: 
    CGNet Swara

    Knight International Journalism Fellow Shubhranshu Choudhary’s mobile news service CGnet Swara (Voice of Chhattisgarh) is transforming how people in remote areas of India receive and share news. The system, developed with the help of Microsoft Research India, allows people to use mobile phones to send and listen to audio reports in their local language. This service circumvents India’s ban on private radio news and reaches people who never before had access to local news.

    Choudhary has trained more than 100 citizen journalists to produce audio news reports.

  • Scripps Howard Semester in Washington Internship Program

    In Partnership With: 
    Scripps Howard Foundation

    The Scripps Howard Foundation Semester in Washington internship program brings two international students per year to Washington, D.C., to work at the Scripps Howard News Service for a semester. The internship is designed to give international students an opportunity to cover events in the U.S. capital, as well as to report and write feature stories for the Scripps Howard Foundation Wire.

  • U.S.-Austrian Journalism Exchange Fellowships

    In Partnership With: 
    Kuratorium für Journalistenausbildung (KfJ)

    2010 fellows; from left to right: Peter Leinfellner, Susan Valot, Florian Niederndorfer and Emily Nipps visit The Washington Post during orientation.

    Each year three to six outstanding media professionals from the United States and Austria are awarded an opportunity to report from and travel in each other's countries as part of the U.S.-Austrian Journalism Fellowships. The program offers young print and broadcast journalists from each country the opportunity to share professional expertise with their colleagues across the Atlantic while working as "foreign correspondents" for their hometown news organizations.

  • Arthur F. Burns Fellowship

    Each year 20 outstanding media professionals from the United States and Germany are awarded an opportunity to report from and travel in each other's countries as part of The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program. The program offers 10 young print and broadcast journalists from each country the opportunity to share professional expertise with their colleagues across the Atlantic while working as "foreign correspondents" for their hometown news organizations.

  • Beyond the Border: Covering the Immigration Phenomenon through Digital Media

    In Partnership With: 
    Scripps Howard Foundation

    The Scripps Howard Immigration reporting training program brings together journalists from the U.S. Spanish and English-language media for a week-long training on how to cover immigration issues using multimedia tools.

    ICFJ is currently seeking applicants for the 2012 Scripps immigration reporting program. The program is scheduled to take place Sunday July 15, 2012 through Sunday July 22, 2012 in Washington, D.C.

    The application deadline is Monday May 28, 2012.

    The 2012 program will have a special focus on the U.S. 2012 presidential election and immigration.

  • McGraw-Hill Markets Reporting Program

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    The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) will offer two online courses in English and Spanish on covering marketing concepts such as how to plan for retirement, understanding your 401k, stock and bond markets, mutual funds and private and public companies, among others. These courses will be available to U.S. journalists who report in minority communities. The online courses will take place from September 4, 2012 through October 26, 2012.

  • Media Educational Exchange Program for Georgian Journalists

    The International Center for Journalists is announcing the second year of a three-year exchange program for Georgian journalists, funded by the U.S. Embassy in Georgia through the Public Affairs Section, and implemented by ICFJ.

  • Brazil: Launch a Digital Map That Uses Open Data to Monitor the Amazon

    In Partnership With: 
    Folha de Sao Paulo
    In Partnership With: 
    ABRAJI

    Knight International Journalism Fellow Gustavo Faleiros is creating a comprehensive online map that makes extensive use of data to track the deteriorating environment of the nine-country Amazon region. The map, a mash-up of existing technologies—satellite images, open data and media and social-media feeds—gives journalists the ability to keep tabs on changes that impact the world’s largest tropical rainforest.

  • Digital Tools for Effective Public Service Journalism

    Online Course: February 27, 2012

    ICFJ presents a five-week online course called “Digital Tools for Effective Public Service Journalism” to strengthen journalists’ understanding of public interest issues while providing new multimedia reporting skills. Brazilian journalists from print, TV and online are welcome to participate in the course.

  • India: Enhance a Cutting-Edge, Multimedia Academy and Help Make it Sustainable

    In Partnership With: 
    Greycells Education

    Siddhartha Dubey is a Knight International Journalism Fellow who is leading an innovative multimedia academy in India. Launched by ICFJ and Greycells Education, the World Media Academy Delhi equips students with the practical, digital skills and international standards they need to succeed in India’s emerging, multimedia news environment. WMA Delhi’s curriculum focuses on video and broadcast.

  • New Media, New Challenges: Best Practices In the Digital Age

    Journalists from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are invited to apply to a new training program that aims to connect journalists in the region on joint reporting projects that will explore cross-border issues of importance, while also training them in responsible practices in the digital age. The program, run by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and sponsored by the U.S. State Department, has two main components.

  • Russia-U.S. Young Media Professionals Exchange Program

    In Partnership With: 
    Moscow Union of Journalists

    The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is now recruiting American journalists to take part in the first year of a new two-year initiative – the “Russia-U.S. Young Media Professionals Exchange Program.” The first round of the month-long exchange is set for April 2012.

  • The Douglas Tweedale Memorial Fellowship

    The International Center for Journalists offers fellowships for two journalists from Latin America to enhance and polish their skills in the United States in the fall of 2011. The program includes customized training in a specialty of the fellows' selection, meetings with journalists in that field and an internship of two weeks or more in one or more U.S. news organizations.

  • Middle East: Launch a Network to Connect Journalists with IT Experts

    In Partnership With: 
    Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism
    In Partnership With: 
    Jordan Open Source Association

    Ayman Salah has formed the first Hacks/Hackers chapter in Amman, bringing together journalists from the online, Arabic news site AmmanNet and and Al Ghad newspaper, students from the University of Jordan and Jordan Media Institute, and developers from the Jordan Open Source Association. The goal: to grow local technology that supports the development of independent, Arabic-language media in the region.

    Among the initial ideas: A mobile application that connects citizens directly to news media.

  • Nigeria: Launch New Multimedia Health Section

    In Partnership With: 
    This Day Newspaper

    Knight International Journalism Fellow Declan Okpalaeke, an award-winning health and environmental journalist, is working with reporters and editors at one of Nigeria’s most popular newspapers, This Day , to create multimedia coverage for a new weekly health section. Aimed at reaching millions of tech-savvy young people in Africa’s most populous country, the health journalists will produce stories about deadly diseases and public health policies designed to raise the quality of life.

  • Sub-Saharan Africa: Develop New Business Models

    In Partnership With: 
    African Media Initiative

    A media entrepreneur, Knight International Journalism Fellow Meredith Beal is working with members of the African Media Initiative (AMI), a pan-African organization of media owners and operators, to develop effective business models and new revenue streams that support quality news coverage.

    Through a competitive process, AMI is selecting organizations to receive Beal’s intensive coaching on business practices, including monetizing mobile and online news services.

  • South Africa: Create Multimedia Health Coverage

    In Partnership With: 
    South African Broadcasting Corporation

    Wilson is expanding multimedia health coverage at South Africa’s largest broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation, which has reporters and bureaus in every part of the country. She is coaching and mentoring SABC journalists to produce in-depth coverage of issues such as national health insurance and AIDS among soldiers, a topic that rarely receives media attention.

  • Liberia: Create Commercially Viable Radio Stations Using New Marketing Strategies

    In Partnership With: 
    UNESCO

    Luisa Handem Piette is coaching managers at four independent newspapers and three radio stations in Liberia to become profitable. She started up the Media and Business Exchange (MBS), which brings together Liberian media managers and other members of the business community, including the Liberia Chamber of Commerce. The goal: to help the news media to attract clients and to educate businesses on the value of buying ads in a country where most advertising still comes from the government and NGOs.

  • Colombia: Use Crowd Sourcing Technology to Track Crime and Corruption

    In Partnership With: 
    El Tiempo
    In Partnership With: 
    Consejo de Redaccion

    Knight International Journalism Fellow Ronnie Lovler is helping El Tiempo, the largest newspaper in Colombia, use crowd-sourcing technology to track crime and violence in Bogota and other major cities.

    Modeled after a similar Fellowship project in Panama, citizens and citizen journalists will post information on the map. Lovler will train El Tiempo journalists to use the map to identify trends and produce investigative stories about crime and violence.

  • Sub-Saharan Africa: Build a Network of Climate-Change Reporters

    In Partnership With: 
    United Nations Development Program

    Formerly a very successful Knight International Journalism Fellow in Tanzania, Joachim Buwembo is now working in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to form a network of journalists across Africa who cover climate change.

    Buwembo is training journalists in five countries, with three additional experts training in 15 other African nations. Buwembo will knit together a cross-border network so that journalists covering climate change can share resources and collaborate on stories.

  • McGraw-Hill Personal Finance Reporting Online Courses

    In Partnership With: 
    McGraw-Hill

    The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) has offered two online courses in English and Spanish on covering personal finance for Hispanic journalists and US journalists covering finance issues for minority and immigrant communities. These courses started on July 1 and will end on August 18.

    The courses were open to Spanish-speaking and English-speaking journalists from ethnic media.

  • Serbian Media Managers Professional Development Program

    In Partnership With: 
    U.S. Department of State

    ICFJ conducted a U.S.-based professional development program for six media managers from Serbia, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State through Support for East European Democracy (SEED) assistance to Serbia

    The program is designed to explain the principles and practices of U.S. media industry that help the press retain its freedom and economic viability through observing how U.S.

  • Nigeria: Create New Health Section at Daily Trust newspaper

    In Partnership With: 
    The Daily Trust
    In Partnership With: 
    Freedom Radio Kano

    As a Knight International Journalism Fellow, Sunday Dare has helped the Daily Trust, the most widely read newspaper in northern Nigeria, launch an eight-page weekly health section. He is working with a team of dedicated health reporters there to improve coverage of health news, and his trainees are producing investigative pieces that have led to better policies.

    Four days after the Daily Trust broke news of an outbreak of the deadly lassa fever, the government announced it had distributed treatment vaccines as well as safety gloves and vests.