Toronto, March 27

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) is pleased to announce its second annual Donner/CJFE Journalist-at-Risk Fellowship to help a deserving journalist from abroad. (See details in Call for Applications below).

CJFE, along with Massey College and the Donner Foundation, offers the Fellowship for the 2003-2004 academic year to give a foreign journalist a mid-career sabbatical in Canada.

The fellowship covers expenses for a journalist to spend an academic year (eight months) at Massey College in Toronto, auditing courses of his or her choice offered throughout the University of Toronto. The Fellow will also have the opportunity to meet Canadian journalists and to hone his or her skills further.

"We are delighted to be able to again offer this tremendous opportunity," CJFE President Arnold Amber said. "Canada's journalists have always fought on the side of freedom of expression for journalists around the world and this fellowship continues that tradition."

Deadline for applications is Friday, April 25, 2003. The second Fellow will be chosen by a CJFE jury and announced June 2, 2003. S/he will arrive in Canada next September to begin his or her studies.

The first Fellowship was awarded last year to Konstantin Parshin, a journalist from Tajikistan who spent the 2002-2003 academic year at Massey College. Of his experience, Parshin wrote:

"CJFE and Massey College provided me with shelter and became my second home... my eight-month stint was not just a long educational vacation from my routine journalistic activities in Tajikistan. There was hardly a day when I didn't strike up a new acquaintance."

CJFE is an association of journalists, writers, producers and media workers dedicated to the ideal of free expression and journalistic rights in Canada and around the world.

For further information, please contact Joel Ruimy, Executive Director, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, Tel (416) 515-9622, Fax (416) 515-7879, Email cjfe@cjfe.org.

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Call for Applications -- 2003-2004 Donner/CJFE Journalist at Risk Fellowship

The Donner/CJFE Journalist at Risk Fellowship aims to provide a deserving foreign journalist with a mid-career sabbatical in which s/he can spend an academic year at Massey College in Toronto auditing courses of his or her choice, expanding contacts with Canadian colleagues and acquiring new journalistic skills that can be put to use upon return to his or her country.

Since its inception 22 years ago, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) has helped save lives and win freedom for journalists around the world. It has also given financial support to dozens of colleagues under its Journalists in Distress Fund. And it manages the Clearing House of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX), an international network of 57 groups devoted to free expression.

CJFE continues this tradition of service to journalists abroad by teaming up with the Donner Canadian Foundation and Massey College to offer the second annual Donner/CJFE Journalist at Risk Fellowship. The ideal candidate will be a working journalist who faces danger in the course of performing his or her duties.

The Fellowship covers: transportation to and from Canada, accommodation in the Toronto area, tuition fees at Massey College, and a modest allowance during the eight months of the 2003-2004 academic year.

Requirements

In order to be considered for a Fellowship, candidates must:

- Be fluent in English so as to benefit from study at Massey College;
- Undertake to return to the country from which they came and to the practice of journalism after the Fellowship;
- Obtain written permission for leave from their employer (if applicable) and a written commitment that they will be rehired on their return (if applicable);
- Have at least five years of experience as a working journalist in print, broadcasting or Internet;
- Write a 1,000-word essay explaining why they qualify as a Journalist at Risk and what benefits they hope to derive from the Fellowship;
- Supply a detailed résumé along with written references from three people, preferably journalists.

Deadline: Applications must be received by April 25, 2003. The winner will be announced June 2, 2003. Please send applications to:

Donner/CJFE Fellowship
489 College Street, Suite 403
Toronto, ON
Canada

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