Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Fellowship opportunity for newspaper editors from developing countries

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Subject: [MediaMentor] Fellowship opportunity for newspaper editors from
developing countries
From: "Dawn" <dwohlfarth@icfj.org>
Date: Tue, March 14, 2006 14:33
To: mediamentor@yahoogroups.com
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Interested in gaining practical journalism experience in the U.S.?

The International Journalism Exchange is now accepting applications
until June 1.

The International Center for Journalists' International Journalism
Exchange will bring 10 young newspaper editors with at least five
years' experience from the developing world to the United States
from October 7 to November 11.

Participants will spend a week in Washington, D.C. where they will get
to meet editors at major U.S. newspapers and learn about journalism in
the capital. Then, they will head out to different parts of the country
to work at a newspaper with about the same size circulation as the
newspaper they left in their home country. There, the editors will spend
one month learning about the cultural and professional aspects of
reporting for a community paper in the U.S. The program ends with a
two-day event in New York where, in addition to touring the city and
visiting media organizations, participants will get to visit the
country's most prestigious newspaper, the New York Times.

For more information and applications, contact Program Officer Dawn
Wohlfarth at the International Center for Journalists, at ije@icfj.org
<mailto:ije@icfj.org> , telephone +1-202-737-3700, fax +1-202-737-0530,
or visit www.icfj.org/ije.html <http://www.icfj.org/ije.html> .

Friday, March 03, 2006

Review of George Lessard's Bolivian Slide Show

I was asked to present my images of Bolivian at the Northern Life
Museum here in Fort Smith, This is a copy of the review of the show
that appeared in the Slave River Journal http://srj.ca , our local
newspaper.

A PSF of the story is available but it is also available th his URL (as a JPG)

Available online as a JPG file at
http://static.flickr.com/39/107240702_88bf00a470_o.jpg

or via

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/107240702/"
title="Photo Sharing"><img
src="http://static.flickr.com/39/107240702_88bf00a470_o.jpg"
width="1148" height="2200" alt="Review of George Lessard's Bolivian
Slide Show" /></a>

More of George's images of Bolivia are available at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/1072623/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/1510357/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/1510957/
and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/1456797/

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