Author Archives: Press Partners

21 Apr
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Khatia Shamanauri

Tbilisi, Georgia Khatia is a reporter for a digital news outlet and a television station producer.  She left her first TV station with several colleagues after government capture, and then led an effort to form an independent online platform.  Before ...

21 Apr
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Illia Ponomarenko

Kyiv, Ukraine Illia is a defense reporter at the Kyiv Post. He’s been covering the proxy war with Russia since it arrived in his hometown near the Eastern front five years ago when he was still a student.  “I did ...

20 Apr
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Bilge Kotan

Istanbul, Turkey Bilge is a producer and reporter at TRT World, Turkey’s public broadcasting station. Most of her work is for the digital division. Her articles before she started the fellowship focused on refugees in Turkey, the war in Syria ...

20 Apr
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A fellowship amid the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreak

By Daniela Castro | It was a cold night in mid-March when I arrived at the Columbia Regional Airport in Missouri — a Midwestern state that’s unknown territory for me. I arrived with two bags fully packed, and was prepared ...

17 Apr
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Although suspended, this fellowship was a great episode in our lives

By Illia Ponomarenko | After so many trips to war zones across the world, I thought there could be no adventure crazy enough to surprise me.  I was wrong: my journey to coronavirus-afflicted America as part of the Alfred Friendly ...

16 Apr
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From classroom to quarantine, a fellowship upended

By Khatia Shamanauri | One month into my journalism fellowship program, I’m writing this post while quarantined in a hotel room back home in Georgia instead of working in the newsroom of the Star-Tribune in Minnesota.  The coronavirus outbreak changed ...

27 Mar
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Pandemic interrupts fellowship program

Alfred Friendly Press Partners suspended its fellowship program after the initial training period at the Missouri School of Journalism because of the coronavirus pandemic. Two members of the fellowship class of 2020 returning to their home countries on March 28-30, ...

09 Mar
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New fellowship class focuses on investigative reporting

Journalists from Colombia, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Georgia and Ukraine join the Alfred Friendly Press Partners in March as the six-month fellowship program puts a greater emphasis on in-depth, high-impact reporting skills across multiple platforms. The six reporters in the Class ...

11 Dec
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TRACE doubles investigative reporting fellowships

The TRACE Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports projects that encourage greater commercial transparency, announced that it will sponsor two highly accomplished reporters from Colombia and India to participate in the six-month journalism fellowship program administered by Alfred Friendly Press ...

21 Nov
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New graduates teach colleagues in home newsrooms

When the six Fellows from China, Moldova, Russia, Ghana, India and Afghanistan graduated in September after training at the Missouri School of Journalism and working in some of the country’s best newsrooms, the final phase of their fellowships began. It ...

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