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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University December 5, 2005 | Vol. 35 No. 13
 
Eight Selected As International Reporting Project Fellows at SAIS

Eight U.S. journalists, including the first recipient of the inaugural NPR-Bucksbaum International Fellowship, have been awarded International Reporting Project Fellowships at SAIS for the spring 2006 program.

The 13-week fellowships, which are aimed at encouraging coverage of international news by the U.S. media, begin in January.

The IRP program combines eight weeks of study in Washington and five weeks of individual overseas reporting. The spring fellows will focus on stories in Brazil, India, Kenya, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Russia and Uganda. Since 1998, fellows have reported from more than 75 different countries. For the first time, the fellows include one journalist who will receive an additional six weeks of training with National Public Radio as the NPR-Bucksbaum International Fellow, a position made possible by a grant from Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum. The recipient of that fellowship is Bianca Vazquez Toness, a radio journalist from St. Paul, Minn. During her NPR training, she will focus on production, editorial and on-air skills, and will produce a project for an NPR newsmagazines.

Two of the fellows, Elizabeth Shelburne, a freelance print journalist from Boston, and Barry Simmons, of WTVF-TV in Nashville, are focusing on international health issues. They will report from Uganda and Kenya, respectively, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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