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January 19, 2012 - AFPF announces new Executive Director Kathleen Graham

June 11, 2011 - 2008 Daniel Pearl Fellow Umar Cheema discusses the death of Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahza and reflects on his own abduction experience in an Op-Ed piece for The New York Times, "Dying to Tell the Story"

June 6, 2011 - 2008 Daniel Pearl Fellow Umar Cheema featured in Los Angeles Times article, "Pakistan journalists walk razor's edge"

June 5, 2011 - 2011 Yemeni Fellow Malak Shaher reflects on her home in crisis in an article for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

June 1, 2011 - 2006 Daniel Pearl Fellow Ghanashyam Ojha remembers late AFPF mentor, Glenn Drohan, as featured in the North Adams Transcript

Global Times publishes article by 1995 Fellow, Li Xiguang: "Daughter's success prompts past reflections"

March 22, 2011 - AFPF convenes Advisory Board as new Fellows arrive

October 26, 2010 - AFPF announces initiative to broaden reach

September 4, 2010 - 2008 Daniel Pearl Fellow Umar Cheema abducted and tortured

September 3, 2010 - 2005 Daniel Pearl Fellow Walid Al-Saqaf interviewed about Alkasir, a software he built to dodge governmental firewalls

July 17, 2010 - 2009 Fellow Rodney Muhumuza reports from Uganda as a guest columnist for The Kansas City Star

July 11, 2010 - Zero Hora names 2009 Fellow Rodrigo Muzell the 2014 World Cup Editor

July, 9 2010 - 2010 Fellow Washington Gikunju Njaramba featured in the Columbia Missourian

June 17, 2010 - AFPF Advisory Committee Member and former Associate Publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Ken Bunting joins The National Freedom of Information Coalition in Columbia, Missouri

May 17, 2010 - President Obama signs the Daniel Pearl Freedom of the Press Act in Washington, DC

March 10, 2010 - Announcing 2010 Fellows

August 17, 2009 - Alfred Friendly Foundation Vice Chairman and former Director of Strategic Development at The Kansas City Star Randall Smith joins the University of Missouri School of Journalism as the first Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism

March 31, 2009 - Announcing 2009 Fellows

September 2008 - 2008 Fellows from Hungary, Kenya, and Uruguay featured in the Foreign Service Journal .

  • "Budapest's Balancing Act" by Ákos Beöthy (Hungary)

  • "Africa Seeks a Friend" by Samuel Siringi (Kenya)

  • "Trade is Central for Uruguay" by Lucía Baldomir (Uruguay)

    March 17, 2008 - Announcing 2008 Fellows

    From KC to Kenya - A news blog created by The Kansas City Star through its partnership with AFPF and the Nation Media Group in East Africa.

  • January 5, 2008 - 2007 AFPF mentor and Kansas City Star columnist Rhonda Chriss-Lokeman writes about the state of Kenya after the December elections.

  • January 5, 2008 - 2007 AFPF Fellow Mugumo Munene writes about his personal experience in Nairobi after the elections.

  • January 5, 2008 - 2006 AFPF Fellow Peter Makori writes about the need for compromise in Kenya.

    August 30, 2007 - A panel discussion organized in partnership with Our Voices Together and the International Committee of the National Press Club for the launch of the Safer, More Compassionate World forum series
    During the Final Seminar, the 2007 Fellows from Bangladesh, Brazil, Egypt and Kenya participated in a panel discussion about anti-Americanism in their countries and worldwide, xenophobia in the U.S., the role of media, and the strategies for bridging the gap of understanding between the U.S. and rest of the world.

    August 22, 2007 - Andrews McMeel Universal Foundation helps send a Kansas City Star journalist to provide training in East African newsrooms

    August 21, 2007 - Mike O'Sullivan of Voice of America speaks with 2007 Fellow Amr Emam

    April 26, 2007 - 2007 Fellow from Georgia featured in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    AFPF Advisory Committee Member and Seattle P-I Assosiate Publisher Ken Bunting writes a story about the death of President Yeltsin of Russia with the help of 2007 Fellow Nina Akhmeteli from Georgia.

    March 8, 2007 - Announcing 2007 Fellows

    2006 Fellow from Nepal featured in the North Adams Transcript
    2006 Daniel Pearl Fellow Ghanashyam Ojha was recently featured in The North Adams Transcript. Ojha will spend his fellowship at The Berkshire Eagle, North Adams Transcript and The Advocate. Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal's South Asia bureau chief who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan in 2002, began his career as a reporter at The Berkshire Eagle and the Transcript.

    March 14, 2006 - Announcing 2006 Fellows

    2005 Fellows featured in Poynter column

    March 8, 2005 - Announcing 2005 Fellows

    July 26, 2004 - Call for Applications for Daniel Pearl Fellowship for Journalists

    May 9, 2003 - Announcing 2003 Fellows

    May 9, 2003 - Announcing Inaugural Daniel Pearl Fellow

    November 3, 2002 - Daniel Pearl Fellowship Established


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