Posted in captured journalist, Female journalists, foreign correspondancy, journalism, news, Uncategorized on February 29, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters
Four American journalists who were arrested on February 14, 2016 during protests marking the fifth anniversary of a Shia-led uprising in Bahrain have been charged and released, according to their families and a prosecutor.
Read the full article here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/16/four-american-journalists-arrested-in-bahrain-during-protests
Posted in American University School of Communication, backpack video journalism, Bill Gentile, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies (CLALS), foreign correspondancy, journalism, photo journalism, Uncategorized, video journalism on February 29, 2016| 1 Comment »
Join us at 12:30 pm, Wednesday, March 2nd at the Media Innovation Lab in McKinley Building for information on how to apply for one of two Student International Reporting Fellowships!
Applications can be found here: fellowship application (pdf), fellowship application (doc)
You must be an AU student to apply for this extraordinary opportunity. Please contact Bill Gentile with questions.
More information on the fellowship here: http://american.edu/soc/journalism/Pulitzer-Center-Fellowships.cfm
Posted in foreign correspondancy, journalism, news, trends in foreign corespondency, Uncategorized on February 26, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Screenshot via YouTube / 60 Minutes
Journalists and professors from around the world write an open letter to the executive producer of CBS’ “60 Minutes” in order to express their grave concern about the frequent and recurring misrepresentation of the African continent.
Read the full article here: http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/3/open-letter-to-60-minutes-on-its-africa-reporting.html
Posted in captured journalist, foreign correspondancy, journalism, news, Uncategorized on February 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »
(Ammar Awad/Reuters)
Israeli authorities issued statements of regret on Tuesday after police officers briefly detained The Washington Post’s bureau chief in Jerusalem and a colleague while they were conducting interviews at the Damascus Gate into the Old City, a site of frequent attacks by Palestinians against Israeli Jews in recent months.
Read the full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/world/middleeast/washington-post-reporter-william-booth-detained-by-israel.html
Posted in foreign correspondancy, journalism, news, Uncategorized on February 24, 2016| Leave a Comment »
(Photo: Associated Press)
One of the most famous and influential journalists in the Arab world, the Egyptian Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, has died in Cairo at the age of 92.
Read the full article here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35595022
Posted in American University School of Communication, backpack video journalism, Bill Gentile, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies (CLALS), journalism, photo journalism, video journalism, tagged American University, backpack video journalism, Bill Gentile, foreign correspondence, Foreign correspondent, International journalism, Journalism on February 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »
WASHINGTON, DC, 23 February 2016 — Join us next week for information on how to apply for one of two Student International Reporting Fellowships!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »
From the rise of China to the tragedy that is Syria, find out what the Telegraph’s foreign team think are the most interesting countries shaping the world today.
Read the full article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/12136693/From-the-Frontline-most-interesting-place-on-earth.html
Posted in foreign correspondancy, journalism, photo journalism, photography, Uncategorized on February 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »
(Photo by Stephen Yang)
Interview with Stephen Yang, who has covered protests in Baltimore and Ferguson. He has also made photographs in Tahrir Square, Egypt and he has covered the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. Additionally, he has covered many local news stories in New York City and beyond.
Read the full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-arnon/how-to-shoot-a-photograph_b_9178738.html
Posted in foreign correspondancy, journalism, news, Uncategorized on February 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »
(Charles Ommanney/The Washington Post)
“Matthias Kolb is a digital correspondent for Süddeutsche Zeitung (literally, “Southern German Newspaper”) assigned to his second presidential campaign. If the political process occasionally strikes native-born Americans as odd, it can look positively, well, foreign to a journalist from Munich who’s just dropped into the American heartland.”
Read the full article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/how-the-presidential-campaign-looks-through-the-eyes-of-a-foreign-journalist/2016/02/10/22dd0a96-cb98-11e5-ae11-57b6aeab993f_story.html
Posted in American University School of Communication, backpack video journalism, Bill Gentile, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies (CLALS), foreign correspondancy, journalism, photo journalism, photography, Uncategorized, video journalism on February 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »
The American University and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting are teaming up to offer two International Reporting Fellowships worth $2,500 each. The deadline for applications are March 31, 2016.
Applications can be found here: fellowship application (pdf), fellowship application (doc)
You must be an AU student to apply for this extraordinary opportunity. Please contact Bill Gentile with questions.
More information on the fellowship here: http://american.edu/soc/journalism/Pulitzer-Center-Fellowships.cfm
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