Announcing 2012 Disaster Management and Resiliency Journalism Fellowships
Application Deadline: Monday, March 12, 2012
2012 Disaster Management and Resiliency Journalism Fellowships
Dates: May 13 – 27, 2012
Study Tour Destinations: San Francisco, California; Honolulu, Hawaii; Tokyo, Japan; Sendai, Japan
Who Can Apply: Mid-career journalists with a minimum of seven years of experience in journalism. Media professionals from print, broadcast and online news organizations, including reporters, writers, editors, producers, columnists, bloggers and editorial writers can apply. Participating journalists will include four Japanese, four Americans, and four journalists from China and Asian and Oceanic countries bordering the tectonic Pacific Plate. These countries include Fiji, Indonesia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Taiwan, Tonga, and Vanuatu. Journalists who specialize in topics related to the specific theme are preferred. Fluency in English is required.
Application Deadline: Monday, March 12, 2012
Funding: East-West Center and the Center for Global Partnership
The program covers all air transportation, lodging, and program-related ground transportation and meals for participating journalists.
Given the recent Great East Japan Earthquake and the resulting tsunami and nuclear crisis, there has been a rethinking of how governments and communities prepare for and respond to disasters. Disaster management demands cooperation among both a wide variety of stakeholders within an affected country, as well as among the international community, to preserve and maintain the resiliency of political structures, economic markets and energy policies. In response, the East-West Center is proud to announce its new Disaster Management and Resiliency in the Asia Pacific Journalism Fellowship program.
The 2012 Disaster Management and Resiliency Journalism Fellowships program will introduce participating journalists to a broad range of disaster management activities in the United States and Japan as well as post-disaster challenges to political, economic and energy resiliency. In San Francisco, journalists will examine lessons learned from the Loma Prieta earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay area of California on October 17, 1989 and measured 6.9 on the Richter scale. In addition, California, particularly the San Francisco area, is considered a leading U.S. example of disaster management as well as renewable energy development. Honolulu, meanwhile, will provide the journalists with a more regional understanding of disaster prevention and mitigation and will include additional examples of alternative power generation. In Japan, the journalists will visit the capital city for an assessment of how the Japanese government and disaster-response agencies handled the Great East Japan Earthquake and the resulting tsunami and nuclear crisis; and what lessons were learned. Additionally, the journalists will examine nuclear power and energy policy in Japan from a variety of perspectives. In Sendai, the East-West Center will expose the journalists to the personal side of natural disasters through discussions with students, aid workers and community members. In both the United States and Japan, the role and responsibility of the media to accurately report on disasters will be explored.
For more information, please see:
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/seminars-and-journalism-fellowships/journalism-fellowships/disaster-management-and-resiliency
The East-West Center, founded in 1960 and based in Honolulu, promotes better relations and understanding among the people and nations of the United States, Asia and the Pacific through cooperative study, research and dialogue. More than 1,200 journalists have participated in EWC media programs.
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