Internews Media Policy Fellowships. Meet the 2011 Internews Fellows:

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1 Internews Media Policy Fellowships Internews Network is an international media development organization whose mission is to empower local media worldwide. This year Internews provided funding for ten Internews Media Policy Fellowship scholarships for individuals interested in media advocacy, media reform and media implementation in post-conflict societies, particularly individuals from such societies. All Internews Fellows are provided with full funding for their tuition, housing, travel and per diem to attend the Summer Institute. Meet the 2011 Internews Fellows: Alex Marciuc Informational Policy Institute, Republic of Moldova Alex Marciuc is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree in international law. He is a practicing attorney at law, licensed member of the Bar of the Republic of Moldova, and is engaged in various research and teaching activities. Alex is representing Moldova in the international project OpenNet Initiative and Eurasian Informational Policy Network. Several years ago, he co-founded the Informational Policy Institute, a non-governmental organization which supports such rights and freedoms as access to information; freedom of expression; training of specialists and dissemination of international experience in these areas; provision of legal assistance to media; and the establishment of legal and regulatory framework on informational policy in the Republic of Moldova. Alex has a large experience in lawsuits for protection of electronic and printed massmedia at the national level and also at the European Court of Human Rights. Over recent years, he has participated as a national expert in a number of Council of Europe projects. The most recent project deals with the development of Human rights guidelines for Internet serviceproviders. Alex is also the author of scientific and publicistic works on different aspects of human rights and on informational law and judicial practice in this field. 1

2 Ammara Durrani Project Director and Strategic Communications Specialist, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of Pakistan Ammara Durrani has served as Development Outreach & Communications Specialist at USAID Mission in Pakistan. Earlier, she worked as Senior Correspondent and Assistant Editor with The News International, Pakistan. Durrani was also a Daniel Pearl/Alfred Friendly Press Fellow and worked at the U.S. daily Los Angeles Times and the U.S. weekly Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, in Los Angeles. Durrani was awarded the WISCOMP Scholar of Peace Fellowship by Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace, India. She won the WASH Media Award for her reporting on Pakistan s water crises by WSSCC, Switzerland. It was followed by publication of a collection of her articles, entitled Troubled Waters of Karachi. Durrani has written on socio-economic and political issues confronting Pakistan for various newspapers and magazines, and has to her credit several peer-reviewed and published research papers. She has also appeared on national and international broadcast media as a commentator. Durrani holds an M. Phil. in International Relations from University of Cambridge, U.K.; and M.A. and B.A. Honors degrees in General History from University of Karachi, Pakistan. Claudia Anthony Head of Radio, Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation A media practitioner with over sixteen years experience in the field, Claudia Anthony earned a master s degree with distinction in International Law in 1995 from the Ukrainian Institute of International Relations, Kiev University in The Ukraine. In 2005, she completed her second master s degree in Intercultural Conflict Management at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany. In her home country Sierra Leone, she was journalist with three local newspapers and was the first Editor of Salone Times newspaper. She is Founder and Executive Publisher of the Tribune of the People newspaper and founded the Alliance for Female Journalists in She worked freelance with the BBC World Service Network Africa in Freetown and Radio Deutsche Welle in Bonn. She was also Senior Radio Producer with the BBC World Service Trust s project on the Charles Taylor trial. Claudia was Germany Bureau Editor with expotimes.net, has literary publications and other papers in scientific journals in Germany and South Africa. From , she was guest of 2

3 PEN-Zentrum, Deutschland. In 2000, she earned the New York-based Human Rights Watch s Hellman-Hammett Journalism Prize, in 2005, the Amsterdam-based NOVIB-PEN Award and in 2010, the Independent Media Commission of Sierra Leone s Most Outstanding Media Practitioner of the Year Award. Jacqueline Fowks Journalist, Peru Peruvian journalist and journalism professor, Fowks covers politics and researches about political communication, human rights and memory of violence in Peru. She teaches journalism at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya. She holds a MA Degree in Communication by Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and a Degree in Communications by Universidad de Lima. She has been researcher in Peru for the Landmine Monitor Report, the de facto monitoring regime for the Mine Ban Treaty. From 2000 to 2005 she worked as foreign correspondent in Peru and Brazil for the Mexican newspaper Reforma. She has worked in Peruvian newspapers El Comercio and Peru21. In 2000, published the book Suma y resta de la realidad: medios de comunicación y elecciones generales 2000 en el Perú, documenting how the corrupt regime of Alberto Fujimori got editorial support paying bribes and using repression against the media of opposition. She contributes as a reporter for Peruvian investigative journalism website IDL-Reporteros, and for Brazilian website Opera Mundi. Since 2009 she also covers and writes analysis about politics, conflicts, violence and coexistence in her blog (Notas desde Lenovo). Ms. Fowks lives in Lima, Peru; enjoys movies, music and long walks. Luan Latifi Director of Licensing Department, Independent Media Commission, Republic of Kosovo Luan Latifi has been working in the media regulation field since 2003 when he joined the Office of Temporary Media Commissioner, OSCE Mission to Kosovo. He started working as a Media Monitor and Analysis Officer and later on he has been promoted at the position of the Director of Licensing Department at the Independent Media Commission (IMC), Kosovo s Broadcast Regulator. During this time he has been part of leading important processes for the development of media sector in Kosovo, such as introduction of the secondary legislation for broadcasters, content providers and cable operations. He also was leading the working group for program issues which is part of strategy for digital switch-over process. Luan has finished a degree in Sociology (BA), Philosophical Faculty at the Prishtina University (BA) and has earned a Master of Journalism Degree (MA) with a specialization in Broadcast 3

4 Journalism from the Kosovo Institute for Journalism and Communication (KIJAC), a combined program and in cooperation with Cardiff University, University of Nebraska and Gimlakollen School of Journalism and Communication. Malcolm Wleemogar Joseph Executive Director, Center for Media Studies & Peace Building, Liberia Joseph is the Executive Director for the Center for Media Studies & Peace Building, a leading Media development NGO in Liberia. A professional journalist and civil society activist for more than a decade, Mr. Joseph has held important portfolios at the national and regional levels, including Vice President, Press Union of Liberia ; Vice president, West African Journalists Association; Executive Member, West African Civil Society Forum, and member Panel of Experts, 2003 IFJ Journalist of Tolerance Award. He currently Chair the Liberia Freedom of Information Coalition and the Liberian Coalition for Free Expression. Malcolm also leads the Liberian Media Law and Policy Reform Process. Malcolm holds an M.A. in International Relations and B.A. in Mass Communication as well as over two dozen certificates in various disciplines of journalism, mass communication, NGO Management, Corporate Governance and Policy advocacy. He holds a Diploma in Human Rights, Peace and Security from Uppsala University, Sweden. Malcolm is a 2009 Stanford University fellow on Democracy, Development and the Rule of law. He lectured and chaired the department of Mass Communication, AME University in Monrovia for three years. Maxat Kassen Associate Professor, Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan Maxat Kassen is an Associate Professor at the Eurasian National University in Astana, Kazakhstan, School of Journalism and Political Science, Department of Television and Public Relations. He has several scientific publications on digital media policy development published in Kazakhstan, USA and Russia. His research interest is about applying successful e-government projects and development of digital democracy via use of modern media technologies. He has participated as a consultant in realization of the national e-government consultancy service. Also, he worked in the National News Agency Kazinform as a head of foreign media service. He received his C.Sc./PhD degree in Political Science from the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Kazakhstan in

5 Shameem Reza Professor, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Shameem Reza teaches at the University of Dhaka. He did his BA and MA in Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Dhaka. He also obtained a masters degree in Media Education from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. As a Ford (ASIA) Fellow ( ) at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Reza conducted studies on children and global media in Malaysia. He is interested in media policies, laws and regulations in South Asia in general and Bangladesh in particular. Broadly, his research interests lie in the arena of communication policies, public service broadcasting, community media, children and media, globalization, and issues concerning freedom of information and access. Over the last several years, he has been working as a social advocate for community media, particularly community radio and broadcast policies in Bangladesh. Apart from teaching, research and community services, he occasionally anchors talk shows on TV channels. He conducted two popular TV talk shows - People and Politics and Women in Politics and Governance. Reza attended workshop, received training and presented papers at regional and international seminars held in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Norway and Thailand. Sofiane Bouhdiba University of Tunis, Tunisia Sofiane Bouhdiba received a PhD in Demography from the University of Tunis, Tunisia. Currently, he is teaching Demography in the Department of Sociology in the University of Tunis. He has studied the role of communication in the Tunisian population strategies, and in particular concerning the politics to promote family planning and struggle against infant mortality. He is now working on the role played by media in conducting and achieving the Jasmine revolution that took place on 14 January 2011 in Tunisia. Vuk Cucic Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, Serbia Vuk Cucic is an assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, where he graduated from in 2007 and obtained his LL.M. degree in Administrative Law in He is currently on PhD studies. He was on a PhD exchange at the Ghent University, Belgium in 2010 on 5

6 Erasmus Mundus scholarship. Before coming to the University, he worked at an Austrian law firm based in Belgrade. In 2009 he organized and coordinated Internet Law Course for students at the Belgrade Law Faculty. In 2011, he coached Belgrade University team for Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition. This year he is going to participate in media law workshops for journalists, organized by USAID-IREX and Independent Journalists Association of Serbia. His research interests include public administration reform, public policies, e-government, media (especially Internet) regulation. He is looking forward to learning in multicultural and multidisciplinary environment. 6