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IRP Fellows for Spring 2011 Program Announced

Fellows Spring 2011

January 24, 2011

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, Mozambique and Uganda.

The nine-week-long reporting fellowships, which provide U.S. journalists with opportunities to do in-depth overseas stories, will begin in March and end in May. The IRP, now in its 13th year, is based in Washington at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University.

The IRP Fellows, their affiliations and the countries from which they will report are:

Jenny Asarnow, freelance, Seattle – Haiti
Jill Braden Balderas, freelance, Washington D.C. – Uganda
Ann S. Kim, freelance, Boston – Botswana
Annie Murphy, freelance, South America – Mozambique
David Taylor, freelance, Washington D.C. – Mali

Each of the journalists spends five weeks in their destination country to report on topics that include HIV/AIDS, malaria, infant and maternal care and new medical and scientific research. This is the first group of IRP Fellows in the program’s 13-year history in which all of the journalists will report on international health issues.

“With a combined 25 weeks overseas to do reporting on global health issues, we think this is going to be a very special group of journalists in this session,” said John Schidlovsky, director of the International Reporting Project (IRP).

IRP Fellows’ prizewinning stories have appeared in scores of newspapers, magazines, on television, radio and online in various media organizations with which the IRP collaborates.

The next deadline for applications for the IRP Fellowships is April 1, 2011, for the program to be conducted in the fall of 2011.

For more information, call (202) 663-7761, fax (202) 663-7762, email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or read about IRP's Fellowships.