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Knight Journalism Fellows Named at Stanford

Twenty journalists have been awarded John S. Knight Fellowships at Stanford University for the 2005-06 academic year.

During their stay at Stanford, the Knight Fellows will pursue independent courses of study and participate in special seminars. The 2005-06 program marks the 40th year that Stanford has offered fellowships for professional journalists.

Financial support for the U.S. fellows comes primarily from an endowment provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Financial support for the International fellows comes from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Shinyoung Journalism Fund, the Hearst Foundation and the Lyle and Corrine Nelson International Journalism Fund.

Following are the 2005-06 Knight Fellows and their principal areas of study:

U.S. Fellows

Jo-Ann Armao, assistant managing editor/metropolitan news, Washington Post; race and immigration in America.

Karen de Sá, staff writer, San Jose Mercury News; juvenile justice and the criminalization of youth.

Emily Harris, Berlin correspondent, National Public Radio; Islam in contemporary politics.

Pam Maples, assistant managing editor/projects and investigations, Dallas Morning News; the fragmentation of news media, and the implications for its watchdog role.

Maria Martin, president, Gracias Vida Productions (Austin, Texas); transnational communities, the role of media in promoting democracy, and power dynamics in societies undergoing demographic change.

Tom Meyer, editorial cartoonist, San Francisco Chronicle; the role of metaphoric language in culture and politics.

Ivan Penn, reporter, Baltimore Sun; African-American entrepreneurship.

Mary Pols, movie critic, Contra Costa Times; exploring the role of the critic as educator, entertainer and communicator.

Laura Rauch, western regional photographer, Associated Press; how and why America goes to war.

Janet Rae-Dupree, freelance technology writer (San Jose); technology transfer: how corporate funding, federal funding and market considerations influence academic research and innovation.

Mike Swift, staff writer, Hartford Courant; the "male code": how manhood is shaped by culture and the cost to men.

Gary Wolf, contributing editor, Wired magazine; legal and extralegal systems of justice and dispute resolution.

International Fellows

Au Ka Lun, executive producer, Television Broadcasts Company, Hong Kong, China; globalization, democracy and conflict resolution from comparative and game theory perspectives

Artur Domoslawski, columnist, Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, Poland; American society, U.S. foreign policy and globalization (Lyle and Corrine Nelson International Journalism Fellow)

Inday Espina-Varona, editor-in-chief, Philippine Graphic, Manila, Philippines; women at war and women at peace: grafting lessons from struggle and rebellion onto conflict-resolution models

Carola Fuentes, reporter, Canal 13, Santiago, Chile; the importance of investigative journalism in emerging democracies

Guillermo Lopez Portillo, investigative reporter, Televisa Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; television and media consumption, and the cultural patterns of the Latino immigrant population in the U.S. (Knight Foundation Latin American Fellow)

Suman Pradhan, freelance writer and founding editor, Kantipur Online, Kathmandu, Nepal; political movements and social change, and the role of monarchies in a democracy

Shin Chi-Young, staff reporter, Dong-A Ilbo, Seoul, Korea; industrial policy (Shinyoung Journalism Fund Fellow)

Martin Turner, Americas bureau chief, BBC, Washington, DC; technological change and potential new innovations in news organizations

The U.S. fellows were chosen by the Knight Fellowships Program Committee: Eavan Boland, Stanford professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program; Robert Boyd, national science writer, Knight-Ridder; Luis Fraga, Stanford associate professor of political science; Theodore Glasser, Stanford professor of communication and director of the Graduate Journalism Program; William B. Gould IV, Stanford professor of law; Ardith Hilliard, executive editor, The Morning Call (Allentown, PA); James Mallory, managing editor, initiatives and operations, Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Norman Naimark, Stanford professor of history and Rita Williams, reporter, KTVU-TV, Oakland.

The Knight Fellowships program director is James R. Bettinger. Dawn E. Garcia is the deputy director.