Another free Knight Center seminar for opinion writers and bloggers: Challenges in Foreign Policy - an a Changing Media World

Posted October 5th, 2009 by Knight Center f...
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The Knight Center for Specialized Journalism invites applications from opinion writers for a seminar:

"Challenges in Foreign Policy - and a Changing Media World"
December 1-4, 2009

Every day, the world is getting more complex and interconnected. The election of a U.S. president with global popularity and the draw-down of U.S. troops from Iraq have done nothing to change that. Twitter helps angry Iranians protest an election. Drug violence, the H1N1 virus and carbon emissions cross borders, challenging governments. President Obama has brought a new tone to U.S. foreign policy, but still faces a raft of challenges: nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea, a struggling war in Afghanistan and new issues with rising powers like China and India.

Senior government officials and leading foreign policy thinkers will update Knight Center fellows on the latest global trends, and how they could impact you, your communities and your readers. Applications are invited from opinion writers for print, broadcast and online media. This includes editorial writers, columnists, editorial page editors and bloggers.

The seminar will include a day on using social networks and digital techniques to reach online readers.

The seminar is free. Participants' media organizations pay travel costs. Participants will gain valuable sources and engage in thought-provoking discussions with other opinion writers from around the country. Speakers will be experts from top research institutions, government and the media.

Visit our website at http://specializedjournalism.org/index.php?q=node/2608 for more details including how to apply.

Applications must be received by Monday, October 26.

I hope you'll consider applying or pass this along to a colleague.

Peggy DeBona
Acting Director
Knight Center for Specialized Journalism
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
University of Maryland
301.405.4817
www.specializedjournalism.org

The Knight Center is a professional program of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland and is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.