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Citizen Diplomacy Guest Blogger Post Myanmar Reporting Fellowship

How my Trip to Myanmar Inspired Greater Openness to Perspective and Culture

Kay-Lin, Open Hands Initiative, Media Training, Myanmar, Lake

When you look up the word “open” in the dictionary, it is defined as “to allow access and a passage”. After being closed off from my native land for more than 20 years, going back to Burma (also known as Myanmar) with the Open Hands Initiative (OHI) and GlobalPost not only gave me the chance […]

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Egypt Programs Guest Blogger Post Myanmar Reporting Fellowship

Collaborative Reporting Fellowships Create Opportunity and Understanding at a Challenging Time for Media

Natalie Keyssar Burma.jpg: "Myanmar Telling Its Own Story" reporting fellow Johnny Wu films a Burmese fisherman on Inle Lake in 2013. (Natalie Keyssar/GroundTruth)
"Myanmar Telling Its Own Story" reporting fellow Johnny Wu films a Burmese fisherman on Inle Lake in 2013. (Natalie Keyssar/GroundTruth)

Kevin D. Grant, Co-founder and managing editor of The GroundTruth Project shares his thoughts on the future of reporting and how collaborative cross-cultural media programs, such those developed by the Open Hands Initiative and the GroundTruth Project, lead to excellent journalism and cultivate lasting international friendship.

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Myanmar Reporting Fellowship

“Burma Telling Its Own Story” – The Beginning of a New Fellowship Project

The new year in the U.S. is very much underway, the hustle and bustle of the daily commute, long hours and increasingly long nights do not distinguish 2013 much from previous years. Yet in Myanmar (Burma), this is a very different story. In 2011, the 17 year long peace treaty established to end the nation’s […]