Requirements may vary but in most cases applicants should have a good command of English. The training opportunities as well as the writing assignments listed here are for foreign, not U.S. journalists. Check our Public Diplomacy Calendar for the dates of the programs administered by the U.S. Department of State. This program provides educational and professional opportunities for journalists from developing countries and emerging democracies in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and Central and South America. The main focus is on journalism course work at a major university in a large U.S. city.
Participants also visit local media outlets and participate in lecture and seminar programs.
The program lasts three to four months. The Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships provides professional print journalists from developing countries and emerging democracies with a unique, training opportunity in U.S. newsrooms. At the heart of the fellowship is a five-month working assignment at a newspaper or news magazine. Fellows contribute to the routine output of their host publications by working as general assignment reporters. Participants are invited to the United States for a five-week program, the core of which is four weeks at an U.S. newspaper.