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Each year, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) offers a resident fellowship for a foreign correspondent or editor of international news widely available in the United States.Named in honor of Edward R. Murrow and funded by the CBS Foundation, the fellowship allows the recipient a period of nine months for sustained study and writing, free from the usual pressure of deadlines that characterize journalistic life.
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Some former Murrow Fellows are:
*Elizabeth Rubin, contributing writer, New York Times Magazine and New Republic,
Mohamad Bazzi, Bureau Chief, Middle East, Newsday, Manjeet Kripalani,
Bureau Chief, India, BusinessWeek, Jane Arraf, Senior Baghdad
Correspondent, CNN; Mary Anne Weaver, Foreign Correspondent, The New Yorker; Kathy Gannon, Bureau Chief, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Associated Press;
Celia Dugger, Co-Bureau Chief, South Asia, The New York Times; Calvin Sims,
Tokyo Correspondent, The New York Times; Jaime FlorCruz, China Bureau
Chief, Time; Marcus Mabry, Africa Bureau Chief, Newsweek; Elizabeth Neuffer, European Bureau Chief, The Boston Globe; Adam Schwarz, Hanoi Bureau
Chief, Far Eastern Economic Review; Anne Garrels, Moscow Bureau Chief,
National Public Radio; Ann Cooper, South Africa Correspondent, National
Public Radio; Caryle M. Murphy, Middle East Correspondent, The Washington
Post; Rose Brady, Moscow Bureau Chief, Business Week; Marguerite Michaels,
Africa Correspondent, Time; David J. Remnick, Moscow Correspondent, The
Washington Post; Louis Kraar, Bangkok Bureau Chief, Time.
*Current 2008-2009 Edward R. Murrow Fellow
To receive an application for the Murrow Fellowship, a nomination letter must be submitted to Fellowship Affairs by January 30, 2009.
The nomination letter may be submitted by a CFR member, a former or current Murrow Fellow, the candidate’s employer, or the candidate him or her self. The nomination letter should provide a brief description of his or her background and why the nominator believes the candidate to be an appropriate prospect for the fellowship. For those candidates who choose to nominate themselves a recent curriculum vitae is also required.
Nominees who meet the criteria of the program will be forwarded an application form requesting:
The application is to be completed and returned to Fellowship Affairs by February 27, 2009.
Murrow Fellows are chosen by the Council’s Edward R. Murrow Fellowship Advisory Committee. The members of the committee for the 2007-2008 selection process were: Juju Chang, Lester M. Crystal, Karen DeYoung, Claude E. Erbsen, James F. Hoge Jr., Jon Meacham, Carla Anne Robbins, Jack Rosenthal, Elise Lewis, ex officio.
Please address all correspondence to:
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Fax: +1.212.434.9801
For immediate inquiries or questions regarding the Program, please call +1.212.434.9489 or email fellowships@cfr.org.
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