JSK names international journalism fellows for 2024-2025
The John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships will welcome six journalism leaders from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America to Stanford University to be part of the JSK Class of 2024-25.
Beginning in September, these JSK Fellows will pursue a range of innovative ideas to improve journalism in a world where journalists and independent media face increasing challenges from authoritarian regimes, polarization, misinformation and financial pressures to sustainability.
“The urgent issues facing journalists around the globe are multiplying,” said Dawn Garcia, JSK Fellowships director. “We believe that with the support and attention of the JSK Fellowships and Stanford, this group of talented international journalists can be further empowered as leaders, to work toward solutions for their countries, and can serve as inspiration and models for others.”
The next JSK Fellowships class will include journalists from Colombia, Germany, India, Malaysia, Malawi and Russia. Early next month, JSK will announce the U.S. fellows who will be joining them in the next fellowship cohort. The fellowship program has hosted journalists from more than 80 countries over more than 5 decades at Stanford. This class will include the first JSK fellow from Malawi.
“We are eager to bring these terrific journalists to Stanford and have them make use of the vast resources available at one of the world’s top universities. Their work could not be more urgent or needed.” — Dawn Garcia, JSK director
Before coming to Stanford, these journalists have done pioneering – and often brave – work to improve journalism in their countries and provide access to news and information people need to create and sustain robust democratic communities.
One is a journalist from Malawi who, under pressure for uncovering corruption, launched an investigative journalism center to hold the powerful accountable and to train a new generation of local journalists. Another founded two independent news startups that have positively contributed to the media ecosystem in Malaysia. One has led a pioneering project to better serve the news needs of the growing Turkish-speaking population in Germany, a country where at least one in five people are immigrants.
A journalist from Colombia who is joining the class has built an award-winning, participatory journalism organization that could be a model for others in an increasingly polarized world. Another new fellow is an accomplished investigative journalist from Russia who is working in exile because the government declared his news organization “undesirable” and its staff “foreign agents,” which banned them from working inside their country. And yet another hosts one of India's most popular video programs at an independent news site, devoted to the issues of people living on the margins of Indian democracy who are largely ignored by the big media.
Throughout their nine months at Stanford, the fellows will connect with Stanford resources and experts and participate in tailored workshops, individual coaching, and peer-to-peer learning to grow as leaders and become more effective change agents.
These six international fellows will join a thriving JSK community. More than 1,000 people from around the world have participated in journalism fellowships at Stanford since the program began in 1966.
International fellows, JSK Class of 2024-2025
