Category Archives: News

14 Nov
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Fellowship training empowers independent journalism in Cuba

Mario José Pentón developed multimedia reporting skills at the Missouri School of Journalism, applied them during his fellowship at el Nuevo Herald and taught them to his colleagues at 14ymedio, Cuba’s first independent news platform. Alejandro González describes Alfred Friendly’s ...

16 Sep
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Panama Papers Manager Wins Alfred Friendly Alumni Award

Marina Walker Guevara said winning the Susan Talalay Award for Outstanding Journalism brought back memories of when she arrived 14 years ago from a small city in Argentina to join the Alfred Friendly fellowship program. She had never written an ...

14 Sep
0

Pittsburgh editor wins Alfred Friendly mentorship award

Greg Victor, the Op/Ed and Forum editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, was gracious, as usual, when he spoke about receiving the inaugural Ellen Soeteber Award for Mentorship from Alfred Friendly Press Partners. “I should be giving you an award,” Victor said during the ...

30 Aug
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Alfred Friendly formalizes partnership with journalism school

Alfred Friendly Press Partners and the Missouri School of Journalism formalized a partnership that brings together the world’s oldest and most prestigious journalism school with a journalism fellowship program that’s trained more than 300 reporters, editors and broadcasters from 82 ...

25 Jun
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Fond memories of former Board member Ellen Soeteber

When Isaac Imaka was working at the Miami Herald as an Alfred Friendly Fellow in 2015, and when he returned to Uganda to work for the Daily Monitor, he often turned to Ellen Soeteber for advice, even after she left ...

21 Jun
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Veteran editors join Advisory Board

Teri Hayt, executive editor for American Society of News Editors, and Greg Victor, an editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, have joined the Alfred Friendly Press Partners Advisory Board. During 35 years in the publishing industry, Hayt has held staff management ...

13 May
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Q&A: Pulitzer-winning team member, Pearl Fellow Aoun Sahi

Aoun Sahi, a Daniel Pearl Fellow in 2010, became a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times after he returned to Pakistan, writing stories about terrorism, politics and other big news in his native country. Then one day in early December, ...

11 May
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From Malawi to Manila: Jackie’s Friendly World Tour

By Jacqueline Combs Nelson Back in 1988, the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship sent me a gift—the gift of international friendship. An enriching and enlightening gift that has kept on giving over the last 28 years and will continue through my life; of this I am confident. The gift began with Margie ...

09 May
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Former Fellow leads Panama Papers Investigation

Marina Walker Guevera, an Alfred Friendly Fellow in 2002 and a Missouri School of Journalism alumna, co-managed the Panama Papers, on of the largest collaborative investigative projects in journalism history.

28 Apr
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Former fellow exposes India airline ownership violation

Tarun Shukla, a 2015 Alfred Friendly Fellow, leads a special investigations unit for Mint, India’s second-largest business newspaper.

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