SummaryThe Los Angeles World Affairs Council Young Professionals is honored to host the 2013 recipients of the Daniel Pearl Journalism Fellowship, Khalid Khattak and Emran Hossain, and the 2013 recipient of the Pearl-Shahzad Fellowship, Waqas Banoori. These fellowships were established in the memory of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed by al Qaeda extremists in Pakistan in 2002. The three honorees will talk about their experiences working in the relatively free and unrestricted media here in the US, and compare that to the challenges they face working as reporters in their home countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh, where they have…
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August 2013
Meet the 2013 Daniel Pearl Fellows, Kahlid Khattak from Pakistan and Emran Hossain from Bangladesh, and the 2013 Daniel Pearl-Saleem Shahzad Fellow Waqas Banoori. They will share their experiences in America at a panel discussion moderated by Rob Eshman, Editor in Chief, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Established in 2003, in partnership with the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships, the Daniel Pearl Fellows come from countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, which Danny covered as a journalist. They work for six months at major U.S. newsrooms and experience the dynamics of a free press. Each Fellow also spends one…
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