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International Journalism Committee
The International Journalism Committee works to improve and protect international journalism and encourage the free practice of journalism in all countries.

For the purposes of this committee, international journalism is defined as any journalism that involves foreign journalists, that takes place overseas, or that deals with international affairs.

To improve international journalism, the committee will do some or all of the following:

— Write articles about international journalism for Quill.
— Put together a panel on a topic related to international journalism at the annual convention.
— Lend assistance to journalists when they ask for our help, both American and foreign, to the extent we are able to do so.
— Create resources of use to international journalists and make them available via the Web, printed guidebooks, or other means to both foreign and American journalists.
— Find ways to bring foreign journalists to the U.S. and American journalists overseas for fellowships, conferences, and other educational purposes.

To protect international journalism, the committee will do some or all of the following:

— Draft press releases and letters on behalf of international journalism or international journalists.
— Lobby Congress in favor of measures that support international journalism.
— Work with other organizations on international projects related to freedom of speech, freedom of information, and similar issues.
— Act as a watchdog on U.S. government agencies that may attempt to restrict international journalism.

Are you interested in serving on the committee? Please contact our committee chairs to find out how you can help.

International Journalism Committee Chair

Ricardo Sandoval
Assistant City Editor
Sacramento Bee
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Ricardo Sandoval is Assistant City Editor at the Sacramento Bee newspaper. He supervises the paper’s environment, science and regional development teams of reporters. Before joining The Bee, Sandoval was a foreign correspondent, based in Mexico City, for the Dallas Morning News and Knight Ridder Newspapers. Sandoval was born in Mexico and raised in San Diego, California. He graduated with a journalism degree from Humboldt State University in Northern California. His career has spanned three decades and has included award-winning coverage of California agriculture, immigration, the savings and loan scandal and the deregulation of public utility companies. His list of awards includes the Overseas Press Club, the InterAmerican Press Club, the Gerald Loeb prize for business journalism and two honors from the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Sandoval co-authored — with his wife, journalist Susan Ferriss — the biography “The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement” published in 1997 by Harcourt.

Ronnie Lovler, vice chair
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Ronnie Lovler is associate director of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism at San Francisco State University. She is also senior writer for the nonprofit Newsdesk.org, and its public-interest news service, “News You Might Have Missed”. In addition to serving as international committee chair, Ronnie is a member of the executive board of the northern California chapter of SPJ. Ronnie taught journalism at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida before moving to San Francisco.

Ronnie’s journalism career spans several decades. She served as bureau chief and correspondent for CNN in Latin America for almost 10 years. During her time at CNN, she reported from every country in Latin America. She also worked for CBS News, The Weather Channel and The Associated Press, as well as The San Juan Star in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She was part of a team of observers headed by President Jimmy Carter monitoring electoral processes in Nicaragua (2001) and Venezuela (2004). During the 2005 U.S. hurricane season, Ms. Lovler worked with the American Red Cross as a volunteer crisis communicator and public information officer. She received her undergraduate degree from Ohio State University and her graduate degree in communications at the University of Florida.

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International Journalism
Fellowships and Awards

Fellowships for US journalists to go abroad
Our guide to international fellowships available to U.S. journalists, sorted by application deadline. Available below.

International Center for Journalism fellowship listings
This is a very comprehensive guide to fellowships available for overseas journalists. It also includes a few fellowships for American journalists.

Fellowships for US Journalists

The following is a list sorted by application deadline of fellowships available to US journalists, and, in some cases, foreign journalists working for US publications. If there is a fellowship we missed, please send us a note.

Application Deadline: Anytime
German Marshall Fund Journalism Fellowship program
Awards between 20 and 30 grants a year to encourage the coverage of European and transatlantic issues and events by the U.S. media.

Application Deadline: Anytime
American Council on Germany Journalism Fellowship
The fellowship program aims to serve American print or broadcast journalists who are in relatively early stages of their careers, including those with only limited exposure to Europe. Knowledge of the German language is not a prerequisite for the program.

Application Deadline: Anytime
The Knight International Journalism Fellowships
Awards fellowships to approximately 20 veteran journalists and news executives from around the world to lead high-impact projects in key countries, where they spend at least a year training, coaching and consulting in conjunction with overseas news and media organizations.

Application Deadline: February 1
American University School of Communication
American University School of Communication is the only professional school in Washington DC that brings journalism, film and public relations together, with an international perspective and a focus on new media — digital, interactive, and social media. The school offers prestigious merit-based awards to full-time journalism graduate applicants in partnership with several organizations.

Application Deadline: March 1
The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program
A two-month working fellowship for ten young print and broadcast journalists to work in Germany.

Application Deadline: March 9
The World Affairs Journalism Fellowship Program
The fellowship is aimed at news managers, editors, commentary writers and other gatekeepers of news. Twelve experienced media professionals will be selected to travel overseas for one to three weeks on assignment. While overseas, fellows will explore issues of local importance and submit articles to their home newspapers for publication.

Application Deadline: March 15
Ian Axford Fellowships in Public Policy
Four-to-six month fellowships for mid-career American professionals an opportunity to study, travel, and gain practical experience in public policy in New Zealand.

Application Deadline: April 1
The International Reporting Project
The International Reporting Project is intended to educate early- and mid-career U.S. journalists in international issues and to increase and improve the coverage of international topics in the U.S. media.

Application Deadline: April 16
The McGee Journalism Fellowships in Southern Africa
Each year, a journalist from the United States will be posted to one or more countries in southern Africa as a McGee Fellow for three to four months to share his or her expertise with colleagues in the region--consulting in newsrooms, leading workshops or teaching at a university.

Application Deadline: August 1
International Policy Fellowships
The Central European University Center and the Open Society Institute send fellows to Budapest to do analytical policy research of open society leaders and to provide these Fellows with professional policy training.

Application Deadline: October 1
The International Reporting Project
The International Reporting Project is intended to educate early- and mid-career U.S. journalists in international issues and to increase and improve the coverage of international topics in the U.S. media.

Application Deadline: October 1
Alicia Patterson fellowships [.DOC]
One-year grants are awarded to working journalists to pursue independent projects of significant interest and to write articles based on their investigations. Recent fellows have gone to Peru and India.

Application Deadline: October 15
Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program
The program strives to provide young American professionals, including journalists, between 23 and 34, with executive-level internships in the federal government and private sectors in Germany.

Application Deadline: November 6
Ford Environmental Journalism Fellowships
Ford Fellows train journalists how to cover urban problems in the megacities of the developing world like Mexico City. In stints of up to three months, Ford Fellows will report on such issues and train local journalists to cover them better.