Latin Americans are among the ranks of journalists selected to spend the upcoming academic year at distinguished U.S. universities to study and develop special projects.
The John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University, Nieman Fellows at Harvard University and Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows at the University of Michigan were announced in recent days.
Reporters, editors and photographers from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico have been selected to study topics ranging from journalism and corruption in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria to new publishing formats for image-driven narratives.
Latin American fellows selected for each program are listed below:
JSK FELLOWS
Argentina and Costa Rica will be represented by the journalists chosen as part of the 2018-2019 class of John S. Knight Fellows at Stanford University in California.
NIEMAN FELLOWS
A Puerto Rican and Colombian journalist are among the 27 journalists chosen as Nieman Fellows in 2019. The journalists will participate in a year of study at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
They include Laura N. Pérez Sánchez, an investigative reporter in Puerto Rico, who won an Abrams Nieman Fellowships, and Juan Arredondo, a Colombian/American documentary photographer who is the Knight Latin American Nieman Fellow.
Pérez will look at corruption in post-disaster efforts and the watchdog function of journalism in these contexts. Her focus will be on Puerto Rico post- Hurricane Maria.
Arredondo will look at the impact of photography on reconciliation in post-conflict societies, according to the Nieman Foundation.
KNIGHT-WALLACE JOURNALISM FELLOWS
A Brazilian editor and Puerto Rican reporter are part of the 18-person class of Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows for the next academic year. They will spend the year at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for individual study and collaborative learning.
Brazilian Daigo Oliva, deputy photo editor at newspaper Folha de São Paulo, will look at “new ways to publish image-driven narratives,” according to the fellowship website. Puerto Rican Luis Trelles, reporter and producer for Radio Ambulante, will study the “politics of reconstruction in U.S. territories devastated by natural disasters.”
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
