[公告]The 2016 Jefferson Fellowships for journalists
2016-01-07
The 2016 Jefferson Fellowships for journalists
We hope that you will share this announcement widely with your newsrooms and networks and encourage qualified journalists to apply. The 2016 program provides journalists with a rich opportunity for reporting on China, Japan, and the future of economic growth in the important Asia Pacific region.
Program Theme: The Future of Growth in Asia Pacific
Destinations: Honolulu, Hawaii; Beijing & Guiyang, China; Tokyo and Fukuoka-Kitakyushu, Japan
Dates: April 30-May 22, 2016
Application Deadline: Friday, January 29, 2016
About the Jefferson Fellowships: U.S. and Asia Pacific journalists participate in a three-week study, dialogue and travel reporting program to deepen their knowledge of key regional issues and build international networks to enhance coverage of the Asia Pacific region.
Who Can Apply: Working print, broadcast, and on-line journalists in the United States, Asia and the Pacific Islands. Five years of experience preferred. English fluency required.
Funding: The Jefferson Fellowships are supported by a grant from The Freeman Foundation and by the East-West Center. These funds provide for 10-13 full or partial scholarships, including approximately 4-5 for qualified American journalists and 7-8 for Asia Pacific journalists. Participants and their media organizations are strongly encouraged to cost share.
All participants, regardless of amount of scholarship, must pay an $800 programming fee to cover costs not provided by the scholarship funds. Participants are also responsible for all applicable visa fees, any additional visa-related expenses, health insurance and baggage fees.
Information and applications: For more information about the program and how to apply, please visit our website: www.EastWestCenter.org/jefferson
Program Theme
The Future of Growth in Asia Pacific
Over the past half century, the Asia-Pacific region has been in the forefront of global growth. But now the longer-term economic future of the region appears increasingly uncertain. Each country faces a somewhat different set of challenges, but many share concerns about aging societies, increased labor costs and a loss of competitive advantage, reduced overseas demand, a need for broader prosperity, and serious resource and environmental problems. With these challenges and the imperative of climate change, new models will be needed for growth in the 21st century.
The 2016 Jefferson Fellowships will focus on Asia’s search for new, more sustainable growth models through sessions with experts and one another in Honolulu and by exploring economic challenges and restructuring in Japan and China. As the world’s 2nd and 3rd largest economies, the success of China and Japan in finding new models will have wide reaching impacts. After decades of rapid growth, China’s overall growth is falling, internal debt is rising and China fears falling into the middle income trap, getting old before it gets rich. In Beijing, journalists will explore China’s efforts to maintain its growth as it shifts to a new model based more on domestic demand versus government investment, higher value-added manufacturing and innovation, and a dynamic service sector, while also addressing dire environmental degradation and the need for a broader distribution of wealth. A visit to Guiyang, the capital of one of China’s poorest inland provinces but the second fastest growing province in 2015, will illustrate both the challenges as well as opportunities for new growth in China. A new high speed rail line just arrived as part of the “One Belt, One Road” strategy and it is becoming a hub for cloud computing, alternative financing and big data.
In Japan, the economy has been in near stagnation for 20 years. It also is in the vanguard of population aging with the world’s oldest society. Meetings with officials, analysts and business leaders in Tokyo will explore Prime Minister Abe’s monetary, fiscal, and structural reform measures intended to boost the economy out of persistent deflation. Visits in Tokyo and travel to Fukuoka-Kitakyushu will highlight some areas of focus for these reforms--promoting efficiency, greater female and elder labor market participation, investments in innovative robotics, advancements in elder care, and rural and regional revitalization. A formerly polluted steel-producing region that transformed itself, Fukuoka-Kitakyushu was designated an “eco-model city” as part of the federal government’s initiatives to commercialize and share technology and know-how for environmentally sustainable growth across Asia. Discussions throughout the program will include the region’s international relations and tensions; the TransPacific Partnership (TPP); and regional integration and investment measures such as China’s “One Belt, One Road” and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
Contact: Ann Hartman, Seminar Specialist, Seminars, East-West Center
Email: jefferson@eastwestcenter.org , Tel: (808) 944-7619
Apply Now! Deadline: Friday, January 29, 2016
The East-West Center promotes better relations and understanding between the United States and the nations of the Asia Pacific region through cooperative research, education and professional development programs.
