Amit Patro to participate in ‘Edward Murrow Program for Journalists’ in US


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GANGTOK, August 1: Amit Patro, the editor of popular English daily, Sikkim Express has been selected for the prestigious ‘Edward Murrow Program for Journalists’, an international visitors’ programme of the US government slated later this year.
The programme is scheduled to start from October 25 and conclude in November 12. The US government will be funding all travel, stay, visa and other expenses.
Patro, who is also the working president of Press Club of Sikkim, will be joined by over 150 international journalists from 100 countries to participate in this prestigious US event. The journalists selected to participate in this program are nominated by the US Embassies in their home countries.
The ‘Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists’ is a specialized International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) for emerging leaders in the field of journalism that relies on an innovative public-private partnership between the US Department of State, the Aspen Institute, and leading schools of journalism for its support.
Since its inception in 2006, the US Department of State’s Murrow Program has brought more than 600 journalists from around the world to examine journalistic principles and practices in the United States. Each year, leading journalists are nominated for participation by the US Embassies in their home countries.
This year ‘Edward Murrow Program for Journalists’ will be having over 150 international journalists from 100 countries to participate in this prestigious program.
After initial briefing in Washington DC, the participants will be traveling in smaller groups for academic seminars and field activities with faculty and students at one of the partner schools of journalism. The partner journalism schools design specialized curriculum for their international counterparts and generously contribute their resources, time and talent to make this program possible.
The visitors also travel to contrasting American cities to gain an understanding of media coverage of State politics and government and to observe American civic life and grassroots involvement in political affairs in smaller towns. The program concludes in New York City, with visits to major media outlets and a symposium to highlight current trends and challenges facing the media in the United States and around the world.
For the ‘Edward Murrow Program for Journalists’, the US State Department has partnered with outstanding schools of journalism that generously contribute their resources, time and talent to make this program possible.
For the 2010 event, the partner schools includes Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication (University of Georgia), Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication (Arizona State University), Reynolds School of Journalism (University of Nevada, Reno), Department of Journalism and Media Studies (University of South Florida), Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication (University of Oklahoma), School of Journalism & Mass Communication (University of Minnesota), School of Journalism and Mass Communication (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (Syracuse University), SI Newhouse School of Public Communications (Syracuse University), Phillip Merrill College of Journalism (University of Maryland) and College of Communication and Information (University of Tennessee).