Note to Correspondents

REHAM AL-FARRA MEMORIAL JOURNALISTS’ FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME BEGINS AT HEADQUARTERS

The United Nations Reham al-Farra Memorial Journalists’ Fellowship Programme begins its twenty-seventh session today at Headquarters, under the direction of the Department of Public Information (DPI).  It will continue until 11 October.

The programme was established in 1980 by the General Assembly, which requested the Secretary-General to initiate a programme of fellowships for broadcasters and journalists from developing countries.  Formerly known as the DPI Training Programme for Broadcasters and Journalists from Developing Countries, the programme was renamed in honour of a young journalist and DPI staff member killed in the attack on United Nations Headquarters in Baghdad in 2003.

Fourteen junior and mid-level print and broadcast journalists are taking part this year, representing media organizations in Botswana, Cambodia, Chad, Comoros, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Federated States of Micronesia, Montenegro, Panama, Sao Tome and Principe, Serbia and Timor-Leste.

During the Programme, the participants will receive briefings from United Nations officials on issues of priority to the Organization.  They will also visit major media organizations in New York, Washington, DC, and Atlanta to observe their operations; and they will have the opportunity to serve as temporary United Nations correspondents, covering United Nations meetings and activities on behalf of their home media organizations.

Participants in 2007 Programme

Following are the countries, names and affiliations of the participants in the 2007 Programme:

Name of Participant	Media Type	Country	Affiliation
[Mr.] Bay Okakeng TSIMANE	Radio	Botswana	GABZ FM Radio
[Mr.] Sophirom KHAN	Print	Cambodia	Rasmei Kampuchea Daily
[Mr.] Augustin ZUZANNÉ	Print	Chad	N’Djamena Bi-Hebdo
[Ms.] Loulou SAID	TV	Comoros	Office de radio et télévision des Comoros (ORTC)
[Ms.] Carol Mariela CROUSSETT	Print/New Media	Dominican Republic	Clave & Clave Digital
[Ms.] Gisella BAYONA PONCE	TV	Ecuador	Teleamazonas
[Ms.] Meerim SULTANGAZIEVNA	Radio	Kyrgyzstan	Radio Azattyk
[Ms.] Mariyam SHUHANA	Print	Maldives	Miadhu Daily
[Ms.] Claudia DAVID	Radio	[Federated States of] Micronesia	V6AH Radio
[Mr.] Vlatko OTAŠEVIĆ	TV	Montenegro	PBS – TV of Montenegro TVCG
[Mr.] Eleutério DOS SANTOS NETO	Radio	Sao Tome and Principe	Rádio Nacional de São Tomé e Príncipe
[Mr.] Miloš ŠTERIĆ	Print	Serbia	Blic
[Ms.] Maria Zevonia VIERIA	Radio	Timor-Leste	TLMDC - RTL

For further information, please contact Joanna Piucci, e-mail:  piucci@un.org, tel.:  212 963 7346; or Dina Daoud, e-mail:  daoudd@un.org, tel.:  917 367 1088.

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