scholarship: foreign press association

Foreign Graduate Students of Journalism

The Foreign Press Association is offering a minimum of three scholarships to foreign graduate students of journalism in the United States, one for $10,000.00, one for $7,500.00 and the other for $5,000.00. The awards are meant to encourage the pursuit of a career in journalism focusing on international affairs.

Applicants must:

1) Submit a one page statement of purpose about why they feel they deserve a scholarship. Indicate if financial aid is needed. List all scholarships and fellowships you have received towards your studies in the United States.

2) Submit an OP-ED article (maximum 750 words) on the following: There is a rapidly growing consensus that Global Warming will have calamitous implications for the 21st century. Having been exposed to this subject as students of journalism, how do you view coverage of this in the United States? Equally important, how is this issue being addressed, or ignored, by governmental decision makers and the media in your country?

3) Present proof of enrollment in a Graduate program.

4) Submit two letters of reference:
a) from a current professor,
b) from an editor you have worked for.

5) Submit only two samples of published or broadcast work. If work is in a foreign language, please send it with an English translation.

6) Submit a curriculum vitae. Outline your previous experience in
journalism and academic background.

Five individual copies (collated) of all submissions must be sent. The awards will be presented at the Annual Awards Reception in May, 2008. Submissions must be received no later than December 28, 2007.

Send to:
Suzanne Adams
FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND
333 East 46th Street Suite 1K
New York, NY 10017
Phone: (212) 370-1054