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The program was created in 1998, making it a pioneer in the "non-profit journalism" movement that seeks to fill the gap left by much of the mainstream media's reduction of international news. The IRP has provided opportunities to more than 300 U.S. journalists to travel to more than 85 countries to produce award-winning stories.
Stories
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IRP Fellows for Spring 2011 Program Announced
Five U.S. journalists have been awarded International Reporting Project (IRP) Fellowships to report on important global health topics that will take them to Botswana, Haiti, Mali, ...
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RSVP Now: IRP Fellows Report on Global Health Successes and Failures
Join five IRP journalists as they share the results of their five-week global health reporting projects at a lunch discussion. The IRP Fellows are returning from India, Morocco, ...
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Indonesia Punishes Wildlife Traffickers
Indonesia has more unique species of mammals, birds, and butterflies than any other country in the world. This diversity has made it a hot-spot for illegal wildlife trafficking, ...
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The 2012 Gatekeeper Editors to Saudi Arabia
The International Reporting Project (IRP) has selected 12 senior editors and producers from across the United States to participate in a two-week trip to Saudi Arabia in May 2012 ...
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Hospital Shows Rwanda’s Health Care Successes
Rwanda has made drastic improvements in health care thanks to new hospitals and a grassroots approach. But even the best facilities have limitations. Ed Robbins, a freelance ...
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RSVP Now: IRP’s Screening of “Bhopali” and Two Short Films
On the evening of Thursday, March 22, IRP will host three film screenings as part of the DC Environmental Film Festival. "Bhopali," a full-length documentary about the worst ...
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Apply for IRP’s Fact-Finding Trip to Saudi Arabia Now
The International Reporting Project (IRP) is pleased to announce a 13-day Gatekeeper Editors Trip to Saudi Arabia on May 5-18, 2012, for senior U.S. editors and producers ...
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How Organizing Jakarta’s Motorcycle Taxis Could Help its Notorious Traffic
GOJEK is the first motorcycle taxi and courier service in Jakarta, Indonesia. Its founders think the start-up could help fix the city's notorious traffic problems. The ...
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IRP Fellows for Spring 2012 Announced
Five U.S. journalists have been awarded International Reporting Project (IRP) Fellowships for the spring of 2012 to report on important global health topics that will take them to ...
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RSVP Now! Journalists Cover the Globe
Join ten journalists as they share the results of their five-week IRP reporting projects at a lunch discussion. The IRP Fellows have just returned from Benin, Swaziland, Taiwan, ...
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Liberia’s Daily Chalkboard Newspaper
In Monrovia, Alfred Sirleaf runs "The Daily Talk," a chalkboard newspaper that displays the day's news in local dialect and is read aloud to help the illiterate stay informed. Ed ...
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Apply by MIDNIGHT Tonight for IRP’s Fall 2012 Fellowships on Religion
The International Reporting Project (IRP) is pleased to announce that it will award up to four IRP Fellowships in the fall 2012 to U.S. journalists reporting on topics of ...
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Indonesia’s President: “We Have to Protect Freedom of Religion”
The International Reporting Project (IRP) and 11 senior U.S. editors and producers traveled to Indonesia from May 6-20, 2011, to learn more about this important country in ...
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The Environmental and Economic Importance of Indonesia’s Forests
The International Reporting Project (IRP) and 11 senior U.S. editors and producers traveled to Indonesia from May 6-20, 2011, to learn more about this important country in ...
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Indonesia’s President: Combating Corruption Is a “Huge Challenge” and Personal Test
The International Reporting Project (IRP) and 11 senior U.S. editors and producers traveled to Indonesia from May 6-20, 2011, to learn more about this important country in ...
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Indonesia’s President: Top Challenges Are “Building Good Governance and Combating Corruption”
The International Reporting Project (IRP) and 11 senior U.S. editors and producers traveled to Indonesia from May 6-20, 2011, to learn more about this important country in ...
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SBY’s Advice for Emerging Arab Democracies
The International Reporting Project (IRP) and 11 senior U.S. editors and producers traveled to Indonesia from May 6-20, 2011, to learn more about this important country in ...
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Meet the IRP Gatekeepers to Rwanda
The International Reporting Project (IRP) has selected 12 senior editors and producers from across the United States to participate in a two-week trip to Rwanda in November 2011 ...
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Keeping Radical Islamists from Recruiting on Indonesia’s Campuses
Filmmaker Hanung Bramantyo hopes his controversial new film will spread tolerance and help quell recruitment by radical Islamists on Indonesia's university campuses. Jacob ...
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Can Home Delivery Fight Malnutrition In Indonesia?
Despite Indonesia's economic growth and development, more than 37% of the country's children under 5 still suffer from malnutrition. One clinic in Java delivers food to kids in ...
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Indonesia’s Palm Oil Dilemma
With demand for palm oil on the rise, Indonesia is leveling forests to create plantations. Jacob Templin meets two men in Borneo who take different approaches to protect their ...
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Report on Global Health in Spring 2012
The International Reporting Project (IRP) is offering up to five IRP Fellowships in the spring of 2012 for U.S. journalists to report on global health topics such as malaria, ...
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Apply for IRP Gatekeeper Editor Trip to Rwanda by September 7
Photo: John and Melanie KotsopoulosThe International Reporting Project (IRP) is pleased to announce a 13-day Gatekeeper Editors Trip to Rwanda on November 6-19, 2011, for senior ...
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Meet the Fall 2011 IRP Fellows
Ten U.S. journalists have been awarded International Reporting Project (IRP) Fellowships to report on important global topics, including four reporting projects on global ...
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Reporting on Global Health
A doctor at the Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in South Africa looks at a chest x-ray of a miner suspected of having tuberculosis.Photo: David RochkindOn homepage: A water ...
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11 Gatekeeper Editors Selected to Travel to Indonesia
The International Reporting Project (IRP) has selected 11 senior editors and producers from across the United States to participate in a two-week trip to Indonesia in May 2011 as ...
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Finding a Center to Hold in Liberia
Listen Now!John Milewski, host of dialogue radio and TV, discusses IRP's latest Gatekeeper trip to Liberia with Sunni Khalid, Ed Robbins, and Teresa Witlz.Photo: David Hawxhurst / ...
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Liberia’s Beautiful Side
For 14 years, a brutal civil war swept over Liberia. Now, seven years later, Liberians are optimistic about the future of their country and their lives. Nowhere is the optimism ...
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Capturing the Flavor of Liberia Beyond Monrovia
Ed Robbins reports on his recent Gatekeeper Editors' trip to Liberia with the International Reporting Project (IRP). You can watch the video clips mentioned in this interview here ...
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Liberia Beyond Monrovia: A Small-Town Mayor’s Big Visions for the Future
Etweda "Sugars" Cooper, mayor of Edina, Liberia, discusses her vision for the small town's future in the wake of 14 years of civil war. "Just come back two years from now," Cooper ...
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Has Firestone Liberia Gone Far Enough in Workplace Reforms?
As the largest foreign corporation in Liberia, Firestone has come under scrutiny in recent years. After accusations of mistreating its workers, Firestone Liberia made concerted ...
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Apply Now! IRP Gatekeeper Editors’ Trip to Indonesia
May 6-20, 2011The International Reporting Project (IRP) is pleased to announce a two-week Gatekeeper Editors Trip to Indonesia on May 6-20, 2011, for senior U.S. editors and ...
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IRP Offers Fall 2011 Fellowships on Religion and Peacekeeping / Genocide Prevention
The International Reporting Project (IRP) is pleased to announce that it will award up to four IRP Fellowships in the fall 2011 to U.S. journalists reporting on topics of ...
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Liberia’s President: Prosecuting War Crimes Could Disturb Newfound Peace
The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, spoke with Gatekeeper Editors on a trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). In this final segment, she speaks about ...
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UN Peacekeeping Forces to Withdraw From Liberia Within Three Years
The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, spoke with Gatekeeper Editors on a trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). In this portion of the interview, she ...
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Americo-Liberians and Indigenous Liberians Reach for a Common Identity
The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, spoke with Gatekeeper Editors on a trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). In this portion of the interview, she ...
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Liberia’s President: Warlords “Don’t Have the Means or the Interest to Take Liberia Back to War”
The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, spoke with Gatekeeper Editors on a trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). Here, she brings up the concern that ...
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Liberian Land Commission Hopes to Eradicate Post-War Disputes
The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, spoke with Gatekeeper Editors on a trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). In this video, she speaks about land ...
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Liberia’s Government Needs to Monitor Firestone’s Environmental and Educational Impact
The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, spoke with Gatekeeper Editors on a trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). In this section of the interview, she ...
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Liberia’s President: Oil May Be Liberia’s “Transformative Asset”
The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, spoke with Gatekeeper Editors on a trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). In this section of the interview, she ...
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Liberia’s President: Corruption Is a “Societal Problem, Not a Government Problem”
The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, spoke with Gatekeeper Editors on a trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). In this segment, she speaks about ...
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Liberia’s President: Sexual Violence “Stems From the Victimization of Women in Conflict”
The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, spoke with Gatekeeper Editors on a trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). In this video, she speaks about her ...
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Liberia’s President: “The Next Election Will Be a Defining Event”
The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, spoke with Gatekeeper Editors on a trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). Here, she speaks about the upcoming ...
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UNMIL Head Løj on the Risk of Renewed Conflict in Liberia
UN Envoy Ellen Margrethe Løj spoke with Gatekeeper Editors on a recent trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). Here, she addresses the risk of renewed conflict in ...
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UNMIL Head Løj on the Reconciliation Process
UN Envoy Ellen Margrethe Løj spoke with Gatekeeper Editors on a recent trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). Here, she talks about the reconciliation ...
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UNMIL Head Løj on Hidden Arms Caches
UN Envoy Ellen Margrethe Løj spoke with Gatekeeper Editors on a recent trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). Here, she talks about caches of hidden weapons. Video ...
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UNMIL Head Løj on Ethnic Conflicts in Liberia
UN Envoy Ellen Margrethe Løj spoke with Gatekeeper Editors on a recent trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). Here, she addresses ethnic conflicts in ...
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UNMIL Head Løj on Liberia’s Security Situation
UN Envoy Ellen Margrethe Løj spoke with Gatekeeper Editors on a recent trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). Here, she addresses the security situation in ...
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UNMIL Head Løj on Liberia’s 2011 Elections
UN Envoy Ellen Margrethe Løj spoke with Gatekeeper Editors on a recent trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP). Here, she speaks about the upcoming elections in ...
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IRP Gatekeepers to Discuss Liberia Trip at January 13 Open Forum
Liberia is rebuilding its social, democratic and economic institutions from the ground up after a brutal 14-year civil war that left more than 200,000 people dead. President Ellen ...
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IRP Fellow Wins Front Page Award
2010 IRP Fellow Betsy Pisik ...
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Liberia Gatekeepers Selected
The International Reporting Project (IRP) has awarded 11 senior editors and producers from across the United States fellowships to participate in a 12-day trip to Liberia in ...
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IRP Announces New Global Health Reporting Fellowships in Spring 2011 for U.S. Journalists
The International Reporting Project (IRP) is offering up to five IRP Fellowships in the spring of 2011 for U.S. journalists to report on global health topics such as malaria, ...
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Listen to “Reporting from China”
Click here for PDF flier. September 15, 12-2PM 1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Rome Auditorium Washington DC A panel of senior US editors spoke ...
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An Editor’s View - China’s environmental issues
Peter Thomson is the environment editor for “The World” on BBC/PRI. In this video Thomson discusses his impressions of China's vast population and the effects on the ...
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An Editor’s View - Organic Agriculture in China
Over 50% of Chinese live in rural areas, farming the land. Runoff from fertilizers, pesticides and animal waste is polluting China’s rivers and contaminating produce. A few ...
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IRP Gatekeepers’ Fact-Finding Trip to Liberia
The 24th and current President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf photo by: Jonathan Ernst, 2001 IRP Fellow November 6-18, 2010 The International ...
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IRP Fellow film premieres on PBS’s POV July 6
Though apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994, economic injustices between blacks and whites remain unresolved. As revealed in Yoruba Richen’s incisive Promised ...
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IRP Journalists Report on “Loose Nukes” Issues
The spread of illicit nuclear materials, or “loose nukes,” is one of the most urgent issues of our time. IRP Fellows Joby Warrick, Sharon ...
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IRP receives Overseas Press Club Citation
Perry Beeman reporting from Rwanda The International Reporting Project (IRP) has been awarded a citation by the Overseas Press Club in its 2009 ...
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Video: IRP screens “Promised Land” film on South Africa
On March 21, 2010 the International Reporting Project (IRP) sponsored a "sneak preview" of former IRP Fellow Yoruba Richen's film "Promised Land." Richen began filming this ...
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Apply for IRP Fellowship: April 1 deadline
2009 IRP Fellow Julia Lyon reports from Thailand. In the fall of 2010 the International Reporting Project (IRP) will offer up to 10 IRP Fellowships to U.S. journalists to ...
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“Promised Land” - Sneak Preview this Sunday
Sunday, March 21, 8pm – 10 pm Busboys and Poets (Langston Room) 2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009 “Promised Land,” is a film by Yoruba Richen about South ...
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An Editor’s view of Peru – David Baron
David Baron, health and science editor for PRI’s “The World,” discusses the 2009 IRP Gatekeeper Trip to Peru, and the topics he and his fellow editors examined. (Produced by ...
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Apply for IRP China Trip: March 1 deadline
May 8-22, 2010 The International Reporting Project (IRP) is pleased to announce a two-week Gatekeeper Editors Trip to China May 8-22, 2010, for senior U.S. editors and ...
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Video: IRP and Kim Dae-jung
Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, who died August 18, met with the IRP Gatekeeper Editors in Seoul in November 2007 during the group’s visit to Korea. In an hour-long ...
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What U.S. editors learned in Africa
Jim Simon is the assistant managing editor of The Seattle Times, overseeing local and regional news coverage and the Sunday newspaper. He has worked as an editor and reporter for ...
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What U.S. editors learned in Africa
Debra Adams Simmons is managing editor of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio, where she is responsible for the daily news operation of the state’s largest newspaper. Prior to ...
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What U.S. editors learned in Africa
Greg Winter came to The New York Times in 2000, and started as a business reporter. During his five years as a reporter, he went on to cover national news and, in his longest ...
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Peru Gatekeeper trip deadline nears
Trip dates: November 8-20, 2009 Click here for Gatekeeper application form >> Peru is known as the cradle of the Incan empire, one of the oldest ancient civilizations. But did ...
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March 27, 2012 | by IRP Staff
Meet the Spring Fellows: Juhie Bhatia
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March 09, 2012 | by IRP Staff
Meet the Spring Fellows: Christopher Werth
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February 28, 2012 | by IRP Staff
Sarah Colt Produces PBS Film “The Amish”
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February 07, 2012 | by IRP Staff
Kathryn Schulz Named Book Critic at New York Magazine
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