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It’s still a ways off, but the planning to bring ten foreign journalists for three days to Cook County is in the works, says World Press Institute Director David McDonald.
McDonald said the journalists will be here March 12-15 and the big community forum will be Monday night at the Arrowhead Center of Arts (ACA).
This will be the World Press Institute’s (WPI) 58th annual journalism fellowship program. WPI has invited ten journalists from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Turkey to participate in the program.
Last year the public got to meet the journalists who applied and were selected to attend the WPI program. While in Cook County the journalists traveled to Grand Portage, ventured up the Gunflint Trail, and learned a bit about our culture and norms. At the end of three-four days here there was a gathering held at the Arrowhead Centre for the Arts (ACA). At that event the journalists introduced themselves and told a bit about their work. Following the introductions, the public was free to ask questions and the discussions proved to be quite lively and informative.
The WPI program will run from March 3 through May 6, 2023. The fellows will spend these nine weeks examining the free press and media innovations and learning about America’s social and cultural diversity and its political system. They will spend the first three weeks in Minnesota, based at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, with visits to Grand Marais in the northern and farming communities in the southern part of the state. The fellows will then travel around the U.S. for five weeks, meeting with journalists, policy experts, and political, business and community leaders. They will visit New York City, Washington D.C., Miami, Austin (Texas), Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles before returning to Minnesota for the program’s final week.
The themes that the fellows of the 2023 program will investigate include issues of U.S. democracy (elections/institutions/political divide), climate change (including energy and food security), cutting-edge journalistic technology, and new business models for journalism in the digital age.
The 2023 World Press Institute fellows are:
Argentina: Ms. Julieta Nassau, digital editor of the foreign desk for La Nación newspaper in Buenos Aires.
Australia: Ms. Bridget Rollason, Victoria political reporter for the Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC) in Melbourne
Brazil: Mr. Danilo Alves, international news editor for GloboNews in Rio de Janeiro.
Bulgaria: Ms. Milena Kirova, reporter for the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) in Sofia.
Finland: Mr. Alexander Uggla, investigative reporter for the Finnish Public Broadcasting Company (Yle) in Helsinki.
France: Mr. Tarek Kai, senior reporter for France 24 News TV in Paris.
Nigeria: Ms. Fauziyya Tukur, senior journalist, disinformation for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in Abuja
Pakistan Mr. Saqib Tanveer, social media editor for the Independent Urdu newspaper in Islamabad.
Sri Lanka: Ms. Piyumi Fonseka, deputy editor of investigations for the Daily Mirror newspaper in Colombo.
Turkey: Ms. Feyza Gumusluoglu, foreign news coordinator for EkoTurk TV in Istanbul.
Founded in 1961, the World Press Institute has been the premier organization in the United States providing international journalists with the opportunity to broadly investigate the country — its values, traditions of a free press, institutions, customs, regions and peoples. WPI now has over 600 alumni from 100 different countries around the globe.
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