Knight Fellowships: 2010-11 Knight Journalism Fellows Named at Stanford

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2010-11 Knight Journalism Fellows Named at Stanford

Twelve 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.

via knight.stanford.edu