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Summer Ethical Leadership Fellowship for Journalism Students and Early-Career Journalists
FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics)
Magazine/News/Digital Journalism
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FASPE is an intensive, two-week study program in professional ethics and ethical leadership. FASPE is neither a Holocaust studies course, nor a genocide prevention program. Rather, the curriculum is designed to challenge Fellows to critically examine constructs, current developments and issues that raise ethical concerns in their professions in contemporary settings in which they work.
Qualifications
- FASPE seeks Journalism applicants who fit into one of the following three categories: 1) have some journalistic experience (whether in a college newsroom or otherwise) and are enrolled in a graduate program of any kind and planning to work as a journalist; OR 2) have completed an undergraduate degree and are working as a journalist; OR 3) have completed a graduate degree and are working as a journalist.
- FASPE seeks Journalism Fellows who are preparing for or in early stages of their career, with total professional experience generally not exceeding 10 years.
- FASPE seeks Journalism Fellows with diverse interests and backgrounds, including those pursuing careers as reporters, editors, photojournalists or documentarians or other forms of storytelling, in local, national, or international contexts.
Duties
- Fellows spend two weeks in Berlin and Poland, where they visit key sites of Nazi history and participate in daily seminars led by specialized faculty.
- The program couples the power of place with academic rigor and many informal opportunities for creative exchange.
- Fellows examine the motivations and conduct of German and international journalists in promoting or misreporting Nazi policies.
- FASPE then draws on these historical examples to help Journalism Fellows grasp their role and responsibility as individuals with influence in their communities; and to encourage them to identify and confront the ethical issues currently facing journalists and media institutions at large.
