Journalism travel fellow heading to Malta for the summer

Journalism major Mariane St. Maurice, winner of this year’s Summer Travel Fellowship, has accepted a summer reporting job at The Malta Independent.

St. Maurice, a junior who is the The Ticker’s opinion editor, said she expects to be writing features about culture and the arts for the paper’s Sunday edition.

“I'm definitely looking forward to working for a ‘real’ newspaper,

being in a newsroom and learning all about it,” she said. “It will, of course, be a great experience that will hopefully help me decide where to take my career.”

The Summer Travel Fellowship offers an opportunity for a distinguished journalism major to do fieldwork in a foreign country of her or his choice. In recent years, students have worked in India, Brazil, South Africa, Israel and Romania.

St. Maurice, who currently is interning at the radio station Z100 and is pursuing a minor in communications, said she is looking forward to the travel opportunity.

“I can't wait to visit historical sites, increase my knowledge of

Malta, of which I've only heard good things, and to just soak up the

culture,” she said.

ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

The Travel Fellowship Program offers students the chance to broaden their horizons and gain new perspectives on journalism and its impact by living abroad and working in newsrooms in the foreign countries they select. 

Students who are interested in applying for the Travel Fellowship for the Summer of 2009 should contact the Journalism Department in the fall, when the application process will begin. (Applicants each will need to submit a brief essay explaining why he/she would like the opportunity, what he/she hopes to accomplish, which country(ies) he/she is most interested in, and possible news organizations in which he/she would seek an internship opportunity; recommendations from two journalism faculty members; and writing samples (preferably published journalistic articles from Dollars & Sense or Ticker or another news publication.)

The program requires that the Summer Fellow commit to working a minimum of six weeks full-time.  The Journalism Department provides financial support (usually about $3,000) to cover travel expenses and some living expenses.