The International Reporting Project is accepting applications from U.S. Journalists for a media reporting trip to Kazakhstan. The government of this huge, but little-known Asian country, has been active in global nuclear proliferation talks. The trip takes place Aug. 3-14. Applications are due June 14. Find out more here.
The deadline has been extended for the Asian American Journalists Association’s 2013 Council for International Cooperation/Anna Chennault Scholarship to May 17. Please let any college student who will be sophomores this fall know about this opportunity. The winner will receive a $3,900 scholarship and an opportunity to bea Voices student Read more
Congratulations to all the New Mexico finalists in the Top of the Rockies contest! We are well-represented in the Region 9 competition, which also includes Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Winners will be announced Actual prizes will be announced at a reception at 5:30 p.m., May 17, at the Denver Press Read more
Santa Fe Reporter Editor Alexa Schirtzinger is departing the Land of Enchantment after being selected for a prestigious John S. Knight Fellowship in Journalism and the paper is now seeking a new editor. See the description from the publication below. The award-winning Santa Fe Reporter seeks an editor-in-chief who’s innovative, Read more
Gwyneth Doland, executive director of the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, is stepping down to return to journalism. Doland told the Santa Fe Reporter she wants to reconnect with writing and working in television. Doland was a host, producer and correspondent at New Mexico PBS and edited the former Read more
Alexa Schirtzinger, editor of the Santa Fe Reporter and board member for the Rio Grande Chapter, has won a prestigious John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship. Schirtzinger is one of 12 U.S. journalists selected from 100 applicants. She and her colleagues will join eight international journalists also selected for the program Read more