Carleton University is now accepting applications to the R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship for a project to be completed in 2024. The application deadline is Thursday, January 4, 2024 by 12 p.m. (noon) ET.
The fund was established to provide an annual award of up to $25,000 to cover travel, reporting and research expenses and a stipend for a journalist. It is administered by Carleton through its School of Journalism and Communication in the Faculty of Public Affairs.
Ongoing global events continue to underscore just how interconnected we all are. Understanding the linkages between our neighbourhoods and the rest of the world has never been more critical and the challenges to Canadian public policy on a range of issues have never seemed so immense.
The Fellowship commemorates the career and ideals of Jim Travers reporter, foreign correspondent, general manager for Southam News, editor of the Ottawa Citizen, executive managing editor of the Toronto Star and national columnist for the Toronto Star at the time of his death on March 3, 2011.
Friends and colleagues of Travers established the Fellowship fund to finance significant foreign reporting projects by Canadian journalists - staffers, freelancers or graduate students - working in any medium. The Travers family enthusiastically supports the Fellowship and is actively involved in its development.
The award reflects the importance that Travers attached to his six years reporting from Africa and the Middle East. He believed Canadians deserve first-hand, in-depth coverage of important stories outside our borders. He argued passionately that it is crucial for Canadian reporters to "bear witness" because in our interconnected world, "foreign" news is local news.
