Fellows’ Blog Posts
Fellowship Blog
‘Russian?’ Here’s how Georgians react
By Khatia Shamanauri, Alfred Friendly Class of 2020 Exactly a year ago, ...
How coding can make your journalism faster, bigger, and smarter
By Anastasia Valeeva | During my Alfred Friendly fellowship, I spent ten ...
What can you accomplish in a year?
Taking the Fellowship program is a big commitment and come graduation day, ...
AFPP Presents: Challenges and Rewards of Starting An Online News Platform
Journalists around the world must now be entrepreneurs as well as reporters. ...
Fellowship helps me practice new ways of doing journalism
“Hi, I’m Jody García, a journalist from Guatemala, currently working for Plaza ...
Indian Fellow finds LA more about homeless than Hollywood
By Parth Nikhil In my coverage of homelessness for the Los Angeles ...
Making memories while learning journalism in America
By Gagandeep Singh I have been thrilled to attend the Missouri School ...
Our shareable dashboard tracks stimulus spending
By Anastasia Valeeva, TRACE Investigative Reporting Fellow 2022 Since the first day ...
Chinese alum profiled by foreign correspondents association
During an interview by the Association and Club of Foreign Press Correspondents ...
Conference focuses on investigative journalism trends, tips, resources
By Anastasia Valeeva, TRACE Investigative Reporting Fellow 2022 The annual Global Investigative ...
The AF journey makes you unlearn and relearn
By Abhishek Waghmare Journalism is as multi-dimensional as a profession can be. ...
A fellowship amid the world’s worst Covid-19 outbreak
By Daniela Castro | It was a cold night in mid-March when ...
Although suspended, this fellowship was a great episode in our lives
By Illia Ponomarenko | After so many trips to war zones across ...
From classroom to quarantine, a fellowship upended
By Khatia Shamanauri | One month into my journalism fellowship program, I’m ...
Fellowship changed me as a journalist, and a person
By Dumitru Stoianov | Being abroad is never emotionally easy. We’ve ...
Plant research institute helps fill gap between science and my beliefs
By Justice Baidoo | I was raised by my grandparents, who farmed ...
Columbia’s connections with China made me feel less of a stranger
By Yan Zhang The journalism school in this Midwestern city is the ...
Training at MU, working at LA Times, a lifetime’s worth of lessons
By Justice Baidoo | Before I arrived here from Ghana to begin work ...
‘Who wouldn’t want to work for a newsroom with these values?’
By Danish Raza | Before this fellowship opportunity, life back home in ...
Preliminary Schedule of Macedonia Workshops 2019
Content subject to change as participants provide feedback on what they want ...
2019 Macedonia Media Mentorship Program
Data-Driven, In-Depth, Multi-Platform Storytelling | An Alfred Friendly/US Embassy Workshop Series Coordinated ...
Border assignment brings child separation issue home
By Juan Luis García When the national outcry began over the separation ...
Meeting famous journalists and war heroes
By Krenar Sadiku | Time does not wait for us mortals, it ...
Working for 60 Minutes: A Dream Becomes Reality
By Farah Ajlouni | I was thrilled when I found out I ...
J-School Experience was exceptional
By Aurora Karameti | My experience at the Missouri School of Journalism ...
Fellows Profiles
Words have the power to create change
Words, facts, stories, they hold the powerful accountable, they inform nations, they ...
What book would you recommend?
What book would you recommend? Our 2022 Fellows share what’s on their bookshelf. ...
Alum goes undercover in Namibia for illegal logging investigation
John Grobler has investigated wrongdoings in Africa for nearly a quarter century, ...
Chencho Dema
Thimphu, Bhutan Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Fellow Dema, 32, has ...
Indunil Usgoda Arachchi
Colombo, Sri Lanka Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Fellow Usgoda Arachchi, ...
Saurav Rahman
Dhaka, Bangladesh Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Fellow Rahman, 33, has ...
Jody García
Guatemala City, Guatemala TRACE Foundation Fellow García, 28, began reporting in January ...
OCCRP Alfred Friendly Fellowship Application
OCCRP Investigative reporting Fellowship Application Download the application here (PDF). If you would ...
At-risk journalist determined to resume watchdog reporting in Pakistan
The thugs determined to silence Ahmad Noorani’s investigative reporting on Pakistan’s leadership ...
Yan Zhang reports with insider’s perspective at USA Today
Yan Zhang worked as a reporter and editor in China for eight ...
Schirger Fellow Dumitru Stoianov joins staff at Newsy, ProPublica
Dumitru “Dima” Stoianov is a reporter for RISE Moldova, a media outlet ...
Stueve Fellow Danish Raza joins staff at Minneapolis Star Tribune
Danish Raza’s reporting at the Hindustan Times, India’s second largest English language ...
Food Security Fellow Justice Baidoo joins new TV team at LA Times
Justice Baidoo is an award-winning news videographer who works on documentaries ...