By Betsy Model, President Each year the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights presents an award to the book that “most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy’s purposes – his concern for the poor and the powerless, his struggle for honest and even-handed justice, his conviction that Read more
By Betsy Model, President The International Women’s Media Foundation is accepting applications for its Women Entrepreneurs in the Global Digital News Frontier grant program. The initiative is funded by the Ford Foundation. The program is open to United States-based women journalists proposing to use digital media in innovative ways to Read more
By Betsy Model, President The University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism has announced that applications are being accepted for the Knight Luce Fellowship for Reporting on Global Religion. The fellowship, sponsored by the Knight Chair in Media and Religion and funded by a grant from the Read more
By Betsy Model, President Tiffany Monhollon, a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, is requesting assistance and input from Rio Grande Chapter members for a study focused on PR and social media influences on journalism. Tiffany has focused her master’s thesis on the topic of trust between journalists and Read more
By Betsy Model, President Journalists from the United States and those from Asian countries with substantial Muslim populations can take part in a dialogue-and-travel program. The deadline to apply is December 1, and the program will run from April 2 to 23, 2011. The seminar, sponsored by the East-West Center, Read more
By Betsy Model, President Journalists interested in media ethics can submit essays on press freedom to a contest. The deadline is November 14. The Essay Topic: Dissemination of information: government interests, national security and freedom of speech – how to strike the right balance? In an age where restricting information Read more