Fellowship highlights lessons of Holocaust

Graduate journalism students and recent graduates can apply for two-week summer fellowships in New York, Germany and Poland.

The Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) will choose 10 to 15 individuals to examine the role journalists played in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.

Fellows will hear from historical sources and survival testimonies, visit German and Polish newsrooms and participate in on-site workshops in Berlin and Auschwitz.

The program will address challenges of human rights reporting, censorship, propaganda, writing historical narratives and new media in present-day journalism.

Applications are accepted from students enrolled in a graduate program of any kind and planning to work as a journalist or journalists with an undergraduate degree received between May 2012 and May 2016 or a graduate degree received between May 2015 and January 2017.

The deadline to apply is Jan. 5, 2017.

For more information, click here.

(sursa: International Journalists’ Network)