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Edward R. Murrow Fellowship

Each year, the Council offers a resident Fellowship for a foreign correspondent or editor of international news for an English language medium. Named in honor of Edward R. Murrow and funded by the CBS Foundation, the Fellowship gives the recipient a period of nine months for sustained study and writing, free from the usual pressure of deadlines that characterize journalistic life.

Application Procedure
To receive an application for the Murrow fellowship, a nomination letter must be submitted to the Vice President of Membership and Fellowship, Elise Carlson Lewis, at the office address or fax number provided below by February 1, 2006.

The nomination letter may be submitted by a Council member, a former or current Murrow Fellow, the candidate’s employer, or the candidate him or her self. The nomination letter should confirm the candidate’s eligibility as well as providing a brief description of his or her background and why the nominator believes the candidate to be an appropriate prospect for the Fellowship. For those candidates who choose to nominate themselves, their letter should address the same aforementioned issues in addition to providing us with a copy of his or her most recent resume.

Nominees who meet the criteria of the Program will then be forwarded an application form to be completed and returned to the Council by no later than February 28, 2006.

In completing the application form, the candidate will be asked to include:

A statement of no more than 2,500 words summarizing and appraising his or her experience as a foreign correspondent and describing the way in which the Fellowship would contribute to his or her professional development. The statement should present an overall plan of work for the Fellowship year, including the applicant’s proposed writing, and it should indicate how the proposed program of study and writing relates to long-term career goals. Any additional information the applicant would like to bring to the Selection Commitee’s attention.

Selection Process
Murrow Fellows are chosen by the Council’s Edward R. Murrow Fellowship Advisory Committee. The members of the Committee for the 2005-2006 selection process were: Juju Chang, Lester M. Crystal, Karen DeYoung, Claude E. Erbsen, James F. Hoge Jr., Jon Meacham, Carla Anne Robbins, Jack Rosenthal, Elise Lewis, ex officio.

Contact Information:
All correspondence should be addressed to:

Elise Carlson Lewis
Vice President, Membership & Fellowship Affairs
Council on Foreign Relations
58 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10021
Fax: +1 212.434.9801
www.cfr.org

For immediate inquiries or questions regarding the Program, please call Aysha Ghadiali at +1 212.434.9489 or email Fellowships@cfr.org

Some former Murrow Fellows are:
*Jane Arraf, Senior Baghdad Correspondent, CNN; Mary Anne Weaver, Foreign Correspondent, The New Yorker; Kathy Gannon, Bureau Chief, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Associated Press; Celia Dugger, Co-Bureau Chief, South Asia, The New York Times; Calvin Sims, Tokyo Correspondent, The New York Times; Jaime FlorCruz, China Bureau Chief, Time; Marcus Mabry, Africa Bureau Chief, Newsweek; Elizabeth Neuffer, European Bureau Chief, The Boston Globe; Adam Schwarz, Hanoi Bureau Chief, Far Eastern Economic Review; Anne Garrels, Moscow Bureau Chief, National Public Radio; Ann Cooper, South Africa Correspondent, National Public Radio; Caryle M. Murphy, Middle East Correspondent, The Washington Post; Rose Brady, Moscow Bureau Chief, Business Week; Marguerite Michaels, Africa Correspondent, Time; David J. Remnick, Moscow Correspondent, The Washington Post.