Murrow participants open a discussion at the University of Minnesota

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 U.S. Department of State, the Aspen Institute, and leading schools of journalism for its support. Since its inception in 2006, the U.S. 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 U.S. Embassies in their home countries.

The next annual Murrow Program, will occur in the Fall of 2010, and will bring over 150 international journalists from 100 countries to participate in this prestigious program. After initial programming in Washington, D.C., the participants travel 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 Murrow Program, the State Department has partnered with outstanding schools of journalism that generously contribute their resources, time and talent to make this program possible. In 2009, partner schools included:

• Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication,The University of Georgia
• Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno
• Department of Journalism and Media Studies, University of Southern Florida St. Petersburg
• Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
• 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
• S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University
• Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
• J. William & Mary Diederich College of Communication, Marquette University
• College of Communication and Information, University of Tennessee

Murrow Alumni Spotlight

Gul Ayaz (Pakistan)*
Farah Farouque (Australia)*
Aziz Sejai Rami (Morocco)*
Smita Sharma (India)*


Private Partnership Spotlight

Dr. Albert R. Tims*, University of Minnesota
Dr. Peter Gross*, University of Tennessee

 

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