NMWE will fund three women-led start-ups that will generate new ideas in the world of news and information and model a spirit of journalistic entrepreneurship.
Glamour's Woman of Your Year contest pays tribute to a real-life woman who uses
her strength, agility, and compassion to incite major change in her
community.
This year's essay contest topic, "The Denial and Its Cost — Reflection of the Nanking Massacre 70 Years Ago and Beyond," is very timely. Japanese Prime Minister Abe caused a furor in Asia and the United States when he tried to deny the fact that the Japanese military had coerced women into being sex slaves in World War II.
The International Reporting Project is pleased to announce an 11-day fellowship fact-finding trip to Nigeria for U.S. gatekeeper" editors and producers interested in learning more about this important country.
Two groups of eight IRP Fellows (one group for spring, one for fall) will be selected for intensive travel and study for research involving foreign affairs.
Any U.S. senior editor is eligible to apply for this spring's International Reporting Project Gatekeeper Editors" fellowship trip, which will take up to 12 "Gatekeepers" on a fact-finding trip to Egypt April 29-May 12, 2006, part of the International Reporting Project's programs to educate U.S. journalists about international issues.
I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison. —bell hooks, black feminist social critic
