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International Reporting Project - Home
Description
The International Reporting Project is designed to educate U.S. journalists about global issues and to increase and improve the coverage of international topics in the U.S. news media. It does so through a variety of fellowships, conferences, seminars, fact-finding visits and publications to meet the needs of all levels of journalists: early-career, mid-career and senior journalists.
The Program is based in the heart of Washington, D.C. at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University. Journalists involved in the International Reporting Project have access to some of the world's leading specialists in international issues at SAIS and other institutions.
The core of the Program is the IRP Fellowships in International Journalism, which each year bring two groups of eight U.S. journalists to Washington, one group in the fall and another in the spring. Since the Program's founding in 1998, more than 100 IRP Fellows in International Journalism have participated in the 13-week fellowship program that includes a five-week overseas reporting project. Some priority is given to stories on international health and medical issues such as malaria, TB, HIV/AIDS, and child survival, the world of Islam, refugees and migration issues, women's and children's rights, press freedom, cultural and social change, human rights, economic development and post-conflict resolution. Stories by IRP Fellows have won major awards, and have appeared in many of the country's best news media.
