The EHC is a non-government and not-for-profit public service organization that focuses on public health and safety issues. The EHC specializes in working with environmental reporters and editors on coverage of pollution and environmental policy matters.
The fellowship is the second component of a two-part Central European Environmental Journalism Program (CEEJP). In the first component, select Central and Eastern European journalists participated in a computer-based electronic information clearinghouse via Internet, ECONET, and other on-line information systems.
During this second part, fellows will undertake an intensive work/study program in cooperation with leading American environmental journalists. Fellows will be involved in a full schedule of group meetings and site visits in the Washington, DC area for one week. Fellows will then travel to other regions in the US where each will be hosted by an American environmental journalist for a week-long itinerary of relevant activities. During the third week, fellows will meet in Boston, Massachusetts to take part in the Society of Environmental Journalists' annual meeting to be held 25 to 29 October 1995.
This program is for English-speaking journalists from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland and the Slovak Republic who have demonstrated professional experience in reporting on environmental issues. Candidates should have experience reporting full-time on pollution and environmental policy issues for newspapers, television, radio, or magazines distributed to the general public.
Those fellows selected will receive financial support for all program-related expenses, including air fare, room and board, and transportation within the US, from the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
The EHC hopes to identify candidates who have not yet participated in US-based sabbaticals for the fellowship beginning 7 October 1995. Candidates must ensure their application forms, available from the EHC in Washington, DC, are received by the EHC no later than 23 June 1995.