Want to stay up to date with everything related to our journey in Myanmar through the “Burma Telling Its Own Story” Fellowship? Don’t miss our regular blogging on Huffington Post through the “Burma Journal” blog.
Below is an excerpt from the Chairman’s opening blog post.
By Jay T. Snyder
Founder, The Open Hands Initiative
This is an exciting week for the Open Hands Initiative. Our OHI team has just arrived in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, where we are sponsoring a three-week journalism fellowship in partnership with the Ground Truth Project and GlobalPost.
From over 400 applicants, we selected 20 top, young journalists from Burma and the U.S. to participate in this program entitled “Burma Telling Its Own Story.” The fellowship will include hands-on training in photography and videography, as well as components of writing and radio broadcasting taught by highly respected journalists from around the globe. The instructor team, led by Charlie Sennott and Gary Knight, also includes journalists Philip Blenkinsop, Dennis Gray, Marc Laban and Michael Sullivan.
The fellows will hear from government leaders, academics, historians and diplomats. They will talk with Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and the US Ambassador to Myanmar, Derek Mitchell. While the program begins in Yangon, we will also send the fellows on journeys across Burma to experience and report on all this beautiful and rapidly changing country has to offer.