Wall Street Journal Asia Fellowship at NYU

Check the eligibility page thoroughly before applying. There are lots of clues in there about the kind of things the judges are looking for. The great thing about journalism is you can do great stories whatever publication you’re at—so if you feel your portfolio isn’t up to scratch, or doesn’t hit all the right points in terms of eligibility, you still have a few weeks to buff up your application with a devastating expose of a company, or the unexpected local fallout of  the Dubai Crisis.

Just don’t leave it too long!

Thanks to all of you who have written in with questions. Here’s one question that is worth adding an answer to for others in a similar situation:

Question:

Can a fellow have a family member accompany them during the period of study? For example, a child or spouse?

Answer:

An international student may bring along a family member as a dependent on an F-2 or J-2 visa. Please see this link to the website for NYU’s Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS).

This OISS link provides information about entering the U.S. on an F-1 or J-1 student visa.

Just one note: Please check the site thoroughly before emailing any questions. We’ve tried to anticipate most likely questions so check all the links, or use the search box on the left, before firing off an email. And a reminder that if you do apply, it has to be done the old fashioned way: by mail.

The WSJ NYU Fellowship for 2010-11 is now open for applications.

The fellowship is a program funded by The Wall Street Journal, in association with New York University, for one or two promising journalists from Asia to enroll in the three-semester masters program in business and economic reporting at the NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

Please explore the site and contact us if you have further questions. The deadline for applications is January 22 Feb 8.

Alumnus Jody Xu reports on the less-than-stellar welcome President Obama received ahead of his China trip: 

Despite the message intended by President Obama from his spending the longest time in China on his first trip to Asia next week, the Chinese people are nonplussed.

One person asked in People Forum, an online chat room of the Peoples Daily: “Mr. President, don’t you think this is a bad time to visit given your recent approval to increase tax on Chinese tires and the escalating trade war against us?”

China’s leading English-language weekly, Global Times, found in an online poll that, out of 8,100 respondents, 86% said they either “do not anticipate” or “do not care much” about the coming visit of the U.S. President.

Obama Loses His Star Power–in China – Deal Journal – WSJ