Knight Fellowships at Stanford University- A Year to Make a Difference for Journalism…

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By Seyi Oduyela

Published: October 7, 2009

Knight Fellowships at Stanford University- A Year to Make a Difference for Journalism…

Think of it…

A year to study and research, removed from the dailiness of newsroom deadline pressures, in the company of other accomplished journalists at Stanford University, one of the top research and innovation institutions in the world.

A year in which you can pursue those fascinating threads of knowledge that get ignored when you’re working on tomorrow’s story. A year to hone your professional intellect for the rest of your career. A year to dive into the challenges and opportunities of 21st century journalism.

What could be better? 
The John S. Knight professional journalism fellowships at Stanford offers such a year. We give outstanding journalists the chance to broaden and deepen their understanding of a changing world, while working on very real journalism issues. Our goal? To improve the quality of news and information reaching the public through the news media: print, broadcast and cyberspace.

Changes to the Knight Fellowships Program

It’s not the same old story, not in journalism and not at the Knight Fellowships program. Beginning with the 2009-10 fellowship year, the program will put a new emphasis on journalistic innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership.

The program is transforming itself in order to serve the needs of journalism and journalists as much in the years ahead as it has in the past. The dizzying landscape of layoffs and consolidation, Internet media sites, citizen journalism and bloggers make journalism a chaotic and exciting proposition today. We are making bold changes to meet these new realities.

The Knight Fellowships awards up to nine fellowships each year to journalists from outside the United States who have already done first-rate work and who have the potential of great impact in journalism in their home countries. Beginning this year, the program has revised its selection process to reflect a new emphasis on journalistic innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership, including an emphasis on developing and strengthening press freedoms around the world.

The overall goal for international fellows is the same as those from the U.S. – an engaged, informed public. We are paying special attention to countries where the obstacles to this goal may be more acute than in the U.S. because of government or other powerful forces opposed to free expression.

The program is seeking journalists from countries where the news media can work as a significant agent of change, both in nurturing a free press and fostering innovation. At the same time, we will continue to seek international journalists from countries with a more robust press, especially those who would focus on innovation and entrepreneurship.

The international application deadline is December 15, 2009. 
Winners will be notified in March.

To get more information or to apply, visit the Knight Fellowship website at http://knight.stanford.edu/.

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