Stories: United Kingdom
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UK Prime Minister Cameron’s visit to India
Lindsey Mastis is reporting from India with the International Reporting Project.
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Apply for IRP’s New Media Journalists Trip to India by Dec. 10!
Application deadline: December 10, 2012 In 2013 the IRP will offer three separate reporting trips of 8 to 10 days each for US and international new media journalists to report on important global health and development issues in one country. The first of those trips will be to India on February 17-27, 2013. Priority for these trips will be given to...
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Apply Now for IRP’s New Media Fellowships in 2013
Application deadline: December 7, 2012 In 2013, the IRP will offer up to six year-long reporting fellowships to influential journalists and media figures who are actively engaged in the new media landscape, using new media and multimedia tools, with strong ties to a social media community, in order to support reporting projects on issues related to health, development, and innovation in the...
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Apply Now for Two New Media Grants!
The International Reporting Project (IRP) is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for two new kinds of global reporting grants in 2013. For the first time in IRP’s history, each of these two new fellowship programs will be open to non-US media professionals as well as to US citizens. In addition to these two new programs,...
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After Eighty Years, No Prosecutions for FGM in the UK
As long ago as 1932, the MP Colonel Wedgwood (direct descendent of the famous potter) spoke in parliament on the 'horrible practice of female circumcision' that he had seen in Kenya and questioned any acceptance of 'their customs...their cruelties'. It’s a practice that involves the partial to complete removal of a girl’s external genitals which inevitably...