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Rising Risks of Covering Conflict. W/ Frank Greve

In an event, co-sponsored by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Institute of Current World Affairs, Veteran Journalist (and ICWA member) Frank Greve speaks about the risks to journalists and photographers in covering conflict. Watch the video using the link below:

  

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Fellowships 2013

The Institute of Current World Affairs will appoint two Fellows in December 2013. Supported from the Institute’s endowment, Fellows with appropriate topics may receive support from specically endowed funds, including: John O. Crane Memorial Fellowship Area of Study: Central and Eastern Europe or the Middle East. John Miller Musser Memorial Forest & Society Fellowships Graduate degree in forestry or forest-related specialties required. Donors’ Fellowship Appointments every two years. Topics and areas of study are unrestricted.

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ICWA Fellowship Award

Malia Politzer has been appointed as a Fellow of the Institute of Current Affairs. She’ll spend the next two years (2013-2015) in India, where she will write about internal and international migration trends, remittances, citizenship issues and identity in India. Malia previously worked for Mint, an Indian business and economics news daily paper, where she wrote on a variety of social issues including disability issues, internal migration, gender, social entrepreneurship and development trends. As a fellow at the Village Voice, she wrote primarily about immigration. Malia has won multiple awards for her reporting and published articles in the Wall Street Journal Asia, Far Eastern Economic Review, Foreign Policy Magazine, Reason Magazine, and Migration Policy Institute’s monthly magazine The Source. She has reported from China, the US-Mexico border and South Korea, and speaks fluent Spanish, conversational Mandarin, and intermediate Hindi. Malia holds an M.S. in multimedia and investigative journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she was a Stabile Fellow, and a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Hampshire College.