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2010-11 Knight Journalism
Fellows Named at StanfordTwelve U.S. and eight international journalists have
been awarded John S. Knight Fellowships to study at Stanford
during the 2010-11 academic year.The selection includes the program’s first journalists from
Cuba and Armenia, and is the second group of Knight Fellows
whose selection was guided by the program’s new focus on
journalism innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership.The projects this year’s Fellows will undertake include ones
focused on enhancing civic engagement, developing new
multimedia storytelling approaches, as well as creating tools
to broaden information about immigrant populations and
promote freedom of speech.During their stay at Stanford, the Knight Fellows also pursue
independent courses of study and participate in special
seminars. The 2010-11 program marks the 45th year that
Stanford has offered journalism fellowships.These are the 2010-11 U.S. Fellows:
- Dan Archer, comics journalist, Mountain
View, California. Archer will design a visual online
interface using sequential panels to create an interactive
multimedia reading experience.- Beth Duff-Brown, deputy Asia editor,
Associated Press, Bangkok. Duff-Brown will study new
mechanisms and media platforms that focus on the
empowerment of women and girls.- Patrick Hirsch, senior editor,
Marketplace, American Public Media, Los Angeles. Hirsch
wants to create a free, universally accessible archive of
explainers for media organizations and the public.- Evelyn Larrubia, associate editor, Los
Angeles Daily Journal. Larrubia will study the growing
number of non-profit journalism ventures and evaluate the
sustainability of new funding models for investigative
journalism.- Phuong Ly, freelance writer, Chicago. Ly
will study social media and social networks in immigrant
communities to develop ways to help journalists connect
with these groups.- Michael Marcotte, public radio news
trainer and consultant, Santa Barbara, California. Marcotte
plans to rewrite the NPR news station “playbook,”
highlighting emerging best practices and recommending
strategic changes.- Jigar Mehta, video journalist, The New
York Times. Mehta will develop tools to improve
collaboration between visual journalists and editors.- Edinéria Pinheiro Soares, editions
coordinator, The Wall Street Journal Americas, New York.
Pinheiro Soares plans to create an online platform where
Latinos can affect news coverage through participatory
journalism.- Wendy Norris, publisher/editor,
westerncitizen.com, Denver. Norris plans to establish a
model news technology that advances journalism through
interactive reader civic engagement tools.- Jeremy Smith, editor, Shareable.net, San
Francisco. Smith will explore sustainable business models
for individual journalists as a pathway for sustaining
journalism as a whole.- Jenka Soderberg, news director, KBOO
Radio, Portland, Oregon. Soderberg plans to develop a way
to standardize the use of social networking, mobile and
tagging sites for newsgathering.- Hugo Soskin, documentary producer, New
York. Soskin will study emerging technologies and social
media to determine their implications for documentary
production.These are the 2010-11 International Fellows:
- Madhu Acharya, executive director, Antenna
Foundation Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal. Acharya will study
sharecasting, two-way radio communication, as a tool for
development and democracy.- Adriano Farano, entrepreneur and
consultant, co-founder, Cafebabel.com, Paris, France and
Rome, Italy. Farano will focus on stimulating the emergence
of next-generation European news entrepreneurs.- Sahar Ghazi, senior duty editor, DawnNews
TV, Aurora Broadcasting Service, Karachi, Pakistan. Ghazi
will develop an online context portal for Pakistan’s young,
breaking-news-oriented electronic media.- Angelo Izama, special projects writer,
Monitor Publications, Kampala, Uganda. Izama plans to
explore and share new ways of enhancing effective regional
cooperation in the Great Lakes Region of Africa.- Gabriela Mafort, editor and reporter, TV
Globo/Globonews, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Knight Latin
American Fellow). Mafort plans to create a social network
to support economic daily coverage and develop new methods
of reporting.- Duncan McCue, national television news
reporter, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada. McCue will develop cross-cultural
training materials to assist reporters covering First
Nations in Canada, and lay the groundwork for the
development of First Nations citizen journalism websites.- Seda Muradyan, Armenia branch editor and
country director, Institute for War and Peace Reporting,
Yerevan, Armenia (Lyle and Corrine Nelson International
Fellow). Muradyan will examine how online participatory
media can promote freedom of speech and independent
journalism in Armenia.- Karelia Vázquez, freelance writer/Diario
El Pais (Madrid), Cuba (Yahoo! International Fellow).
Vázquez plans to create a “cyber-ecosystem” that connects
debating forums, through social networks, about Cuba in
transition.The program received 133 applications for the U.S.
Fellowships and 183 applications for the International
fellowships.Financial support for the U.S. fellows comes primarily from
an endowment provided by the John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation. Financial support for the International Fellows
comes from sources that include the John S. and James L.
Knight Foundation, the Lyle and Corrine Nelson International
Journalism Fund, and Yahoo! Inc.The U.S. fellows were chosen by the Knight Fellowships
Program Committee: James Bettinger, director, Knight
Fellowships; Eavan Boland, Stanford professor of English and
director of the Creative Writing Program; Theodore Glasser,
Stanford professor of communication; Bruno Lopez, vice
president and general manager, Univision Interactive Media;
James Mallory, senior managing editor/VP news, Atlanta
Journal-Constitution; Abbas Milani, director of the Iranian
Studies Program at Stanford and research fellow, Hoover
Institution; Margaret A. Neale, professor, Stanford Graduate
School of Business; Marcia Parker, West Coast Editorial
Director of Patch.com, and Rita Williams, reporter, KTVU-TV,
Oakland.The International Fellows were selected by James Bettinger,
director of the program, and Dawn Garcia, deputy director.