Gambian Journalist Gets Nieman Fellowship!!!!!
Gambian Journalist Gets Nieman Fellowship
Alagi Yorro Jallow, Managing Editor of The Independent has once again received another honour, by being the recepient of the prestigious Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in Cambridge in the United States of America.
According to Mr Jallow, the good news was broken to him last Friday,17 February, 2006 by the curator of the Nieman Fellowship Mr. Bob Giles.The one year Fellowship is designed to allow working journalists of accomplishment and promise to study at Harvard University in an area of their choice. Therefore, Mr Jallow says he plans to use his time at Harvard to study human rights of journalists, media law and management of a newspaper in Africa, with special reference to the Gambian situation.
Established in 1938, the Nieman Program is the oldest mid-career fellowship for journalists in the world.The fellowship is awarded to renowned journalists of high accomplishment to study at Harvard University. More than 1000 US and international journalists have so far benefited from the program.
Mr Jallow, an award-winning journalist became one of the winners of the Canadian Journalists for Free _Expression award last year and he is also the first Gambian journalist to be twice awarded the Hellman/Hammet award which is administered by the renowned human rights watcgdog; Human Rights Watch.Asked what he intends to do after the fellowship, Mr. Jallow said he is going to devote his time to accomplishing his plans of helping to establish a university-based journalism institute in The Gambia. "I owe it to Gambian journalists to use whatever opportunity at my disposal to help develop their potential," he said.
Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 (Archive on Sunday, April 16, 2006)
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