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Deadlines: April 30, 2010
ICFJ brings two journalism students per year to participate in the Scripps Howard Semester in Washington internship program.
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 Knight International has made huge inroads in health coverage in Uganda. Knight Fellow Christopher Conte has pumped new life into an association of health journalists and built a corps of professionals devoted to covering health-related issues. He is working with Uganda’s largest newspaper, The New Vision, to help reporters and editors produce more and better stories for a new weekly health section focusing on the latest measures to treat HIV/AIDS and other crippling diseases such as malaria, and drug abuse.
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 In East Africa's most influential nation, Knight International is improving the quality of health coverage in an effort to stem the spread of killer diseases. By working with journalists to cover health issues responsibly and fully, Knight Fellow Rachel Jones is helping to spur better policies that ultimately lead to improved health care. Based at The Nation Group, Kenya's largest media conglomerate, Jones’ presence in news meetings, critiques of the paper, and one-on-one mentoring of journalists have contributed to a regular flow of well-reported health stories.
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 In Ghana, Knight International will enable journalists to monitor programs designed to alleviate poverty in the country's rural areas. Knight Fellow Sylvia Vollenhoven will develop a network of professional and citizen journalists, who will communicate with each other via mobile technology, in an effort to increase coverage of issues such as microfinance and rural education and sanitation. The goal: to draw greater attention to these topics and spur effective public policies.
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 The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) has launched a program in conjunction with Senegal’s largest journalists’ union that will equip media professionals to work with greater effectiveness to promote media freedoms and protections.
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.jpg) The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in Washington, D.C. invited print journalists from the United States and from a majority Muslim country to propose reporting projects on issues of importance to audiences in both places. Currently, reporters are working joint reporting projects in Muslim countries and in the United States.
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