• Knight Fellowships

Knight Fellowships Class of 1997

• Top row: Alex Beam, Rob Taylor, Heather Abbott, James Bettinger (deputy director)
• Third row: James Risser (director), Relly Davidson (administrative associate), Kawamura Toshihisa, Joan Laatz Jewett, Slawomir Zagorski, Meg Laughlin, Kathy Wilhelm
• Second row: Ephraims Sheyin, Henrietta Grant Peterkin (administrative associate), Bill Gannon, Rodrigo Carpio, Susan Caba, Maria Ronderos
• Front row: John Fensterwald, Maureen West, Michael Fields, Anna Husarska, Andrew Zajac, Marcia Kramer

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Fellows are listed alphabetically, with original titles and employers from their fellowship year.

Heather Abbott
Senior producer, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alex Beam
Columnist, Boston Globe

Susan Caba
Staff writer, Philadelphia Inquirer

Rodrigo Carpio
General director, El Grafico, Guatemala City, Gautemala (Knight Foundation Latin American Fellow)

John Fensterwald
Editorial page editor, Concord (NH) Monitor

Michael Fields
Deputy senior editor, National Public Radio, Washington

Bill Gannon
Staff writer, Newark (NJ) Star Ledger

Anna Husarska
Freelance writer, New York (Egon Scotland Fellow)

Joan Laatz Jewett
Staff writer, Portland Oregonian

Kawamura Toshihisa
Editor, "Paso" PC Magazine, Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan

Marcia Kramer
Assistant news editor, Washington Post

Meg Laughlin
Staff writer, Miami Herald

Maria Ronderos
Columnist, El Espectador, Bogota, Colombia (Reuters Foundation Fellow)

Ephraims Sheyin
Senior correspondent, News Agency of Nigeria, Kaduna, Nigeria (Reuters Foundation Fellow)

Rob Taylor
Staff writer, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Maureen West
Opinions page editor, Phoenix Gazette

Kathy Wilhelm
Hanoi bureau chief, Associated Press

Slawomir Zagorski
Science editor, Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, Poland (Lyle and Corrine Nelson International Fellow)

Andrew Zajac
Statehouse reporter, Akron (OH) Beacon Journal