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05/03/2024

Kiplinger salutes our many Fellows and fellow journalists around the world as we celebrate World Press Freedom Day.

It's during WPFD we highlight the significant role played by the press, journalism, the free access and dissemination of facts to ensure and secure a sustainable, reliable information system.

This year WPFD brings awareness of all aspects of the global environmental crisis and its consequences essential to building democratic societies. Journalistic work is indispensable for this purpose.

Moving forward Kiplinger's mission of 51 years will continue being the training and education of professional journalists globally to face critical reporting challenges in climate, political, immigration coverage and all issues requiring our persistent attention.

04/30/2024

Wrapping up the 2024 Kiplinger Fellowship with a photo array of training sessions during the week. The 17 journalists focusing on immigration and migration reporting spent about 25 hours learning from trainers on ways to enhance their reporting. The fellows represented four continents and nine countries.

04/29/2024

The 2024 Kiplinger Fellowship was a weeklong event that brought talented, veteran journalists from around the globe to the Ohio University campus to study immigration and migration reporting.
Seventeen journalists from nine nations started in Columbus and spent a week in Athens. Five days of training and a lot of socializing made the week a success.
This is one of two posts highlighting the program. Ohio University Scripps College of Communication

04/22/2024

The 2024 Kiplinger Fellowship at Ohio University featured 17 professional journalists from nine nations on campus April 15-20 for a focus on immigration and migration reporting. An opening reception and dinner was held on April 15 at the OU Inn.

04/19/2024

The Kiplinger Fellowship ended today and we said goodbye to an amazing group of journalists who cover immigration issues across the globe. Six days of learning and fun at Ohio University. Ohio University Scripps College of Communication

04/08/2024

The final fellow in our illustrious class comes to Kiplinger from Belgium. Welcome.

Mahmoud Elsobky is an experienced investigative reporter with more than 17 years of experience.
He has worked for reputed national and international media outlets and actively contributed to cross-border investigative projects. Elsobky holds a master's degree in journalism and media from Brussels University.
His work has been recognized with several awards, including The Samir Kassir Award for Press Freedom in 2023, which was conferred “in recognition of his exceptional reporting on illegal migration, passport brokers, and the black market for European travel documents.

04/04/2024

Welcome to Kiplinger another European fellow who has extensive reporting experience in the Middle East.

Francisco Carrión is a reporter for Spanish newspaper El Independiente.
Previously he was a correspondent for El Mundo in Cairo (Egypt). Over more than a decade he reported from Egypt on the most turbulent years in the history of the Arab country. He has traveled extensively across the Middle East, from Iraq or Syria to Gulf countries.
Our His work has been awarded in Spain by at least 20 distinctions, including the Young Journalist of the Year Award from the Press Association of Madrid; the Young Communication Award from the Complutense University of Madrid; the Tiflos Journalism Award from the ONCE Foundation; the Colombine Award from the Press Association of Almería; the Manuel Alcántara Award from the University of Málaga; and the Manuel Azaña Award from Alcalá de Henares. In 2021 he was a finalist for the Cirilo Rodríguez Prize, the most prestigious award for correspondents and special envoys in Spain.

04/03/2024

Kiplinger is pleased to introduce another one of our seven U.S. journalists in the Class of 2024.

Ralph Thomassaint Joseph is an award-winning Haitian multimedia journalist. He co-founded Ayibopost, one of Haiti's most competitive digital news media platforms, before moving to New York to pursue a master's in digital dournalism and innovation from New York University.

Currently, he serves as the Caribbean community correspondent at Documented, the only news media in New York that focuses on immigrants and the policies that affect them. At Documented, Ralph produces news content and resource guides for immigrants, conducts audience research, and develops news products. As part of Documented's strategy, he utilizes Nextdoor to connect with Caribbean immigrants living in various New York neighborhoods.

Ralph is also a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.

04/01/2024

Our next fellow comes from Central Asia, an underrepresented region of the world in Kiplinger's 51-year fellowship history.

Erkinbek Kamalov, a freelance journalist hailing from Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic (aka, Kyrgyzstan), is a versatile writer proficient in Kyrgyz, English, and Russian. He frequently contributes to local online media outlet, Versia.kg and the think tank rcsgs.org/ru, specializing in international politics, migration and geopolitics and social issues.
His journalistic journey includes specialized training in Development Journalism at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication in New Delhi, India, along with international field-oriented media fellowships such as, US State Dept’ Digital Communication Network in (DigitComNet, 2016) and alumnus of Meridian’s Central Asia Journalist- in- Residence held in Austin, Texas (CAJIR, 2019).
Beyond his journalistic endeavors, Erkinbek proactively involved in designing and implementing media and communications research projects for Kyrgyz as well as, international non-governmental organizations based in his home region Central Asia and beyond.

03/29/2024

Welcome to our fellow from Atlanta where is
a proactive voice for immigrants and refugees.

Sophia Qureshi is the founder and publisher of 285 South, the first news publication dedicated solely to reporting on Metro Atlanta’s immigrant and refugee communities.

She has written stories about the need for more culturally sensitive mental health services, language access challenges for newly arriving families, and regularly profiles unsung heroes in local communities. She is also an editorial contributor to Atlanta Magazine, and has written for Canopy Atlanta, the Atlanta Civic Circle, and the Atlanta History Center, and The Local Palate.

In 2023, she won an Atlanta Press Club award for Narrative Nonfiction for a story about an Afghan family building their life in Georgia, published by Atlanta Magazine. She was also awarded the 2023 Raksha Community Change award.

Before launching 285 South in 2021, she worked for over 15 years in media and communications, including at Al Jazeera Media Network, the United Nations Development Programme, and South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT).

03/27/2024

Our South American journalism representative at this year's fellowship focuses her work on covering migration issues on that continent.

Pierina Sora (Venezuela). She is a journalist and digital content creator. She is based in Lima, Peru.
Her work has focused on migration, gender and human rights issues.
She is co-founder of Cápsula Migrante, a platform run by and for Venezuelan migrants in Peru. She participated in the campaign Migrantes Informados (finalist in the first edition of the Latin American Digital Democracy Award in the Citizen Journalism category) and in the campaign Migrantes Informadas. This campaign received an honorable mention in the VI National Journalists' called "Periodismo que llega sin violencia" (Journalism without violence).
Sora is a content creator and she uses her social media to post informative content about migration and journalism.

03/26/2024

We are more than halfway in our Kiplinger Fellows introductions. Please welcome of our two journalists this year coming from Mexico.

Magdaléna Rojo is a Slovak freelance journalist covering global issues and human rights.
She is a multimedia storyteller who focuses on solutions and voices that do not often make it into the mainstream media. She has been working in the countries of Global South for the past ten years and is currently based in Oaxaca, Mexico.
In 2017, Magdalena and a documentary photographer Noel Rojo founded a global, slow journalism project Women Who Stay to bring a different perspective on migration – the perspective of women left behind after their male counterparts migrate. As they documented stories of women in Mexico, Ethiopia, Senegal, India, Romania, and Slovakia, the project Women Who Stay resulted in several articles published in the international media, photo exhibitions, public speeches and a narrative non-fiction book published in Slovakia in 2023.
Rojo's work has been published in Thomson Reuters Foundation/The Context, The New Humanitarian, Deutsche Welle, Mongabay, Unbias the News, YES! Magazine, etc. She was nominated for the Slovak Press Award for the best feature in 2013.
She was a journalism fellow in the Spiritual Exemplars Project by the University of Southern California and with the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab at Brandeis University.

03/22/2024

Our next fellow comes to the fellowship from New England and is a podcast producer.

Alexandra Locke is the executive producer of The Take, Al Jazeera's daily news podcast. Born and raised in the Boston area, she began her career at Al Jazeera English after living in Syria during 2011.
From Washington, she worked as a digital producer at The Stream, an Emmy-nominated live discussion show that broke ground at the intersection of digital and broadcast media.
She then lived in Istanbul as a journalist for several years before joining The Take as a senior producer. As executive producer, she led the show's transformation to a daily podcast.
Recognition of her work in audio journalism includes the Online Journalism Awards, the Gracie Awards, and the Signal Awards. Alexandra has interviewed people from more than 50 countries, across all borders and walks of life.
She has a bachelor's degree in international relations from Bowdoin College and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

03/20/2024

Welcome our first fellow from Malaysia. Glad to have you in the 2024 class.

Hadi Azmi is the Malaysia correspondent for the South China Morning Post. He previously contributed to The New York Times, Bloomberg, CNN, and Radio Free Asia.

Despite earning a journalism degree from Curtin University in Perth, Australia, Hadi decided against being a journalist seeing the climate of media in Malaysia in the early 2010s which was predominantly state-controlled. Instead, created video content for advertising agencies.

His actual start in journalism started in 2016 after his former lecturer who was then running Radio Free Asia in Malaysia roped him in to come on board. Among the major news events he covered include the assassination of the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Malaysia in 2017, the 1MDB corruption scandal, the Rohingya migration crisis, as well as the ongoing insurgency in Southern Thailand.

Hadi continues to make use of his videomaking skills by directing a documentary on the transmigration between Malaysia and Thailand and in the production of a Skinhead subculture short documentary in Malaysia which was nominated for the Grierson British Documentary Awards in 2022.
He was also prominently featured in ‘Assassins’, an Emmy-nominated documentary on said North Korean assassination.

03/18/2024

The Kiplinger Program has had several Canadian journalists join us for our yearly fellowship over the last decade. This year, we welcome one more.

Morgan Black is an award-winning multi-platform journalist with nearly 10 years of experience covering daily news in Alberta.
For Global News, she has covered national and local stories from Pope Francis’ historic apology to survivors of Canada’s residential schools, the shooting deaths of two Edmonton police officers and multi-day coverage on wildfires across Alberta. In November 2023, she also reported and produced an episode of Global TV’s Crime Beat: Most Wanted.
The recipient of a national RTDNA award for her large-market feature piece A Love Story Worth Listening To, in 2021, Morgan was a Canadian Association of Journalists award finalist in the “Best Broadcast Under Five Minutes” category.
Her work has also been recognized for outstanding leadership in the mental health sector and in 2022, she was recognized by Momentum Walk In Counselling in the media category for “making a difference in the world of mental health service and stigma reduction.”

03/15/2024

For only the second time in 10 years, we have a Kiplinger Fellow returning.

Cristina Lai Men was a fellow in 2015 when Kiplinger's fellowship focused on digital media skills. Now, the senior reporter and editor at TSF Rádio Notícias, where she covers current affairs, breaking news and features, with a special focus on social and international issues, is returning for this fellowship focusing on immigration and migration reporting.
Working as a professional journalist since 1995, Cristina served as TSF's executive editor for three years and was awarded 16 times for her radio documentaries: nine top prizes and seven special mentions.
Based in Lisbon-Portugal, she also worked as a special envoy in several countries including Bosnia Herzegovina, Turkey, UK, USA, Angola and Mozambique.
With a degree on social communication, Cristina was selected for three international Journalism Fellowships, the International Visitor Leadership Program, in the USA, and a Science Retreats’ workshop by the EEA Grants.
With completed training courses on Radio Journalism, Television and Multimedia for the web, she also attended several seminars and workshops in Lisbon, Brussels, Marseille, Ankara and online with the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas.
Cristina has three books published (two as a contributor) and apart from Portuguese, she also speaks basic French, Spanish and studied Mandarin for five years.

03/13/2024

Another fellow, another introduction. This time it's a U.S. journalist reporting from Dearborn, Michigan where immigration plays a key role in daily life.

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a journalist, essayist, scholar, and poet focused on issues of Asian America, race, justice, and the arts.
She is a Communities Correspondent, Dearborn/Detroit for PBS NewsHour and her writing has appeared at NBC News Asian America, PRI Global Nation, Detroit Journalism Cooperative, Hour Detroit, Angry Asian Man, Cha Asian Literary Journal, and several anthologies, journals, and art exhibitions.
She has taught Asian/Pacific Islander American studies at University of Michigan, and creative writing at University of Hawaii Hilo and Washtenaw Community College. She was Executive Director of Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce and American Citizens for Justice. She co-created a multimedia artwork for Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.
She has written a book of prose poetry, “You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids,” Wayne State University Press. She is a 2022 National Critics Institute Knight Fellow, 2022 Columbia Univ DART Center Age Boom Academy Fellow, 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Detroit artist, 2019 Marguerite Casey Equal Voice Journalism Fellow on Poverty, and 2019 Keith Center for Civil Rights Detroit Equity Action Lab Race and Justice Reporting Fellow.
She has a weakness for a well-crafted argument and a lyrical turn of phrase. Franceskaihwawang.com

03/11/2024

Meet our next fellow. Welcome to Kiplinger, Juan.

Juan Luis Garcia began his career as a junior reporter in Plaza Publica, Guatemala, the principal investigative media in the country. In 2014, Garcia moved to Mexico, where he published several migration articles for SinEmbargo, El Universal, and Cuestione.

In 2017, he was selected by the United Nations as a Reham Al Farra Fellow in New York to cover the General Assembly; in 2018, by the Alfred Friendly Foundation in Columbia, Missouri, and The Texas Tribune, where he covered immigration in the southern border of the United States during the separation crisis of families of Donald Trump's administration.

In Mexico, he covered the first Central American caravan of migrants and witnessed a massive cross-border attempt (2019).

He is currently a Causa Natura Media reporter covering climate-related social issues like migration.

03/08/2024

We continue to introduce our 2024 Kiplinger Fellows with a Venezuelan journalist working in Florida who loves covering immigration stories.
Clavel Rangel Jimenez (she/her) is a Venezuelan journalist based in Miami, a freelance reporter, and co-founder of the Network of Journalists from the Venezuelan Amazon.
With a background in investigative journalism, she worked as a Senior Editor at El Tiempo Latino in Washington, D.C., and as the Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning newsletter Soy Arepita. Passionate about human rights, environmental issues, labor, and immigration, Clavel's work has been featured in prestigious publications like Correo del Caroní, Armando.info, Univision and The Guardian.
She was a Resilience Fund Fellow in 2020 and is currently a fellow at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime and an IRE's 2024 Chauncey Bailey Journalist of Color Investigative Reporting Fellow. In 2023, she joined the Oxford Climate Journalism Network. She was trained as a journalist for almost ten years in Guayana City, Venezuela, at the region's oldest newspaper, Correo del Caroní. X: | LinkedIn:

02/29/2024

Today, we showcase one of our U.S. Kiplinger Fellows for 2024.

Jordan Gass-Pooré (she/her) is an award-winning podcast producer and investigative journalist with more than a decade of journalism experience.
Presently, Jordan is the creator, producer, reporter, and host of “Hazard NJ,” a limited-series podcast about the impacts of climate change on hazardous Superfund sites in New Jersey. “Hazard NJ” is a production of NJ Spotlight News, the news division of NJ PBS, and is the outlet’s first podcast.

She’s also the co-founder of Local Switchboard NYC, a women-led audio collective that trains New Yorkers in journalism and audio production in the form of a local news podcast of the same name.

Prior to this, Jordan was a producer of CNN’s podcasts, “Chasing Life” and “Coronavirus: Fact vs Fiction,” both hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta. She was also a producer of the investigative podcast “Sounds Like Hate,” created by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Until 20 Productions, and the executive producer of the Queens Memory podcast, “The Borough We Became: Queens Residents On Life During COVID-19,” which won the 2021 Third Coast “Impact” award.

She has a master’s degree in investigative journalism from City, University of London and a bachelor's degree in journalism and English from Texas State University.

02/26/2024

Meet our next fellow coming to campus April 13-19. She is a British journalism repprting from Ukraine. Welcome.

Liz Cookman is an award-winning British foreign correspondent currently based in Ukraine, relocating to the country in the tense months that preceded Russia’s full-scale invasion. She produces on-the-ground reports, in-depth features and news stories from dangerous and challenging environments for some of the world’s most respected outlets.

Her work focuses on the human cost of conflict and crises, and she was recognised this year by Amnesty International with the Gaby Rado New Journalist award. She previously covered the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Turkey and the Middle East.

02/22/2024

Eighteen professional journalists serving as fellows from around the globe will come to Ohio University the week of April 14-19 to take part in a fellowship dedicated to improving immigration and migration journalism.
For the next several weeks, we'll present a bio and photo of our newest class.
Today we welcome 2024 Kiplinger Fellow Aliénor Carrière.

Aliénor Carrière is a French journalist and documentary filmmaker. After studying in Germany, she began her career in 2011 for print media. In 2015 she collaborated with the European channel ARTE, for which she directed her first film on child soldiers in Ivory Coast. From 2016, she covers migration issues during elections across Europe but also deals with the traumas linked to migratory exile, mainly on the Franco-British border. She tells the story of exile, the conditions under which migrants are received in Europe, and the human trafficking networks that take advantage of political inaction... and enable a great deal of violence, particularly against women.

In 2017, she directed a feature-length documentary on s*xist clichés even before the movement. At the same time, she volunteers with associations to train reporters not to retraumatize victims of violence during interviews. She has also been part of the Red Cross's Restoring Family Links service, helping people who have lost their families on the migration route to find their loved ones.

During the last decade, she has taken part in OSINT programs and cross-border journalism fellowships (n-ost project, ECJP project) and she managed to win 11 awards and grants from prestigious foundations.

02/19/2024

Let's meet the 2024 Kiplinger Fellows.

Eighteen professional journalists serving as fellows from around the globe will come to Ohio University the week of April 14-19 to take part in a fellowship dedicated to improving immigration and migration journalism.

For the next several weeks, we'll present a bio and photo of our newest class. We start today with one of seven U.S. fellows.

Katie McQue is a multi-award-winning freelance investigative journalist covering human rights, migration, tech, and human trafficking. Her work has been published by the Washington Post, Guardian, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), and others. Originally from the UK, Ms. McQuehas been based in Brooklyn for the past two years. Previously, she lived and worked in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, covering energy, politics, and human rights as a freelance and staff journalist. She has reported from more than 20 countries across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Ms. McQue’s work for the Washington Post includes an investigation exposing a human trafficking network forcing women to travel from the UAE to Syria to work in domestic servitude. The investigation prompted the Philippine government to rescue more than 60 women, triggered two hearings in the Philippines Senate and the removal of the Philippine ambassador to Syria.

Her investigation for The Post on the smuggling of sanctioned Iranian fuel prompted the US Treasury to dispatch a senior officer to the Middle East to investigate.

Her 2023 Guardian investigation into child s*x trafficking over Meta’s social media platforms has informed a recent lawsuit by the New Mexico Attorney General.

01/08/2024

Congratulations to the 18 veteran journalists who will make up this year's Kiplinger Fellowship in Public Affairs Journalism.
This journalists represent 11 nations and five continents.
The focus of this year's fellowship is immigration and migration reporting.
For one week, the fellows will work on ways to better cover and explain the complexities of immigration and migration issues here and abroad.
The fellowship will take place at Ohio Ohio University from April 14-20 and will be held at the Scripps College and E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.

Eighteen veteran journalists with experience covering immigration and migration issues across the globe have been selected for the 2024 Kiplinger Fellowship in Public Affairs Journalism.

11/18/2023

You're killing me, Smalls!

There's only one week left to apply for the Kiplinger Program Fellowship and we still haven't seen your application.

We are hosting 20-25 global journalists who cover immigration and migration issues for their outlets. The weeklong fellowship will be April 14-20 at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in idyllic Athen's Ohio.

If you have at least five years of professional journalism experience, cover migration or immigration from the local to the global level, you need to be here. We have S'mores!

We will provide all of your training, lodging, most meals and social events and provide you a handsome travel stipend to cover most of your cost rounding the bases from home.

Our alumni have rated our fellowship a 4.5 out of 5. We're in the big leagues and we intend to keep swinging for the fences with dynamic programming, trainers and people like you who want to be stars back home.

Apply now. It's the bottom of the ninth.
https://www.ohio.edu/scripps-college/journalism/kiplinger

11/08/2023

The days to apply for the 2024 Kiplinger Fellowship in Public Affairs Journalism are dwindling. Deadline is November 26.
Be sure to use the link below to go to our website and follow the navigation bar to the application page.

The upcoming fellowship will focus on immigration and migration reporting, from international strategies to local community impact. If you cover these topics, no matter where you report, we'd like to hear from you.

The fellowship is April 14-20 and will be held at Ohio University in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and Scripps College of Communication.
Kiplinger will generously provide all of the training, lodging, meals and many of the social events, while providing a travel stipend to cover about 75 percent of your travel costs to Athens, Ohio.

The fellowship will host a balance of U.S. and North American journalists with a similar number of international fellows. Our trainers will be the leading experts on these topics and fellows will hear from top journalists in the field who write about immigration and migration for some of the most prestigious outlets in the world.

Don't miss out on this career-enhancing and inspiring fellowship. Apply before the deadline at: https://www.ohio.edu/scripps-college/journalism/kiplinger

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10/30/2023

We are into the final month to apply for the 2024 Kiplinger Fellowship in Public Affairs Journalism.
The upcoming fellowship will focus on and reporting on a global scale. It's April 14-20 at Ohio University and the Scripps School of Journalism.
If you are a journalist with at least five years of experience and cover these issues on the national, regional or local levels, we'd like you to apply.
Kiplinger will cover all of your lodging, training, most meals and social events and offer a travel stipend in the range of 70 percent to help defray costs. Enhance your reporting, meet fellows from around that world and make connections that last a lifetime.
Apply today at https://www.ohio.edu/scripps-college/journalism/kiplinger

10/12/2023

Applications for the 2024 Kiplinger Fellowship are open.

This year's critical reporting theme is immigration and migration.
If you are a journalist with at least five years experience covering these topics, whether it's on an international scale or just locally, you should consider applying.

The fellowship will be held April 14-20 in Columbus, Ohio and at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in Athens.
Kiplinger will provide all training, lodging and most meals and social events. We will provide a travel stipend to cover roughly 75 percent of your travel costs. Your employer should be willing to cover the remaining.

The weeklong fellowship will put you face to face with some of the leading experts in immigration and migration issues. Likewise, you will hear and learn from some of the top journalists who have extensive experience in covering these issues.

To apply, go to: https://www.ohio.edu/scripps-college/journalism/kiplinger/fellowship/apply-now

Deadline is later November.

09/19/2023

Ready to bet on a sure thing in journalism education?

Applications for the 2024 Kiplinger Fellowship will open Oct. 9.

The 2024 fellowship will focus on the critical reporting issue of migration and immigration.
If you are reporting on this topic globally, consider applying for our weeklong fellowship, April 14-20, at Ohio University.

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08/10/2023

The Kiplinger Program is partnering with Solutions Journalism Network, US Democracy Day, The National Press Foundation, The Emancipator, The American Prospect and The Objective to sponsor a four webinar series on covering elections and democracy in 2024.

We invite journalists to join us for the four-part series where distinguished reporters and editors will lead discussions on appropriate applications of the solutions frame, walk through the reporting process for impactful stories, share best practices, and answer your questions. The goal is to empower newsrooms to embrace solutions reporting as one key way to provide more comprehensive, useful and impactful political coverage.

Kiplinger Fellow Kira Lerner will be one of the presenters for this series that begins in late August.

Register here:

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