Minnesota Journalists Abroad Past Recipients
Since it began in 1998, MJA has sent
seven young journalists to Northern Ireland, Japan, Vietnam, Chile and
Argentina, England, and France. They have reported on a variety of subjects
ranging from post-Vietnam War society to international agreements on forestry
certification standards to a study of French newspapers.
"Without a sense of 'the global,' journalists are bound to misinterpret and misrepresent their local contexts," said Elizabeth Dunbar, the 2003 recipient who traveled to Argentina to research media coverage of political scandals.
"Traveling abroad stirs an excitement for the foreignness in things. The challenge is to bring home that same excitement and see the 'newness' in things overlooked," said the first scholarship recipient, Lynnae Shrader after traveling to Northern Ireland.