Winner of 2011 Wall Street Journal Asia Fellowship Announced
NEW YORK (June 13, 2011) – The Wall Street Journal announced today the winner of the 2011 Wall Street Journal Asia Fellowship is Warangkana Chomchuen, a television producer from Chiang Rai in northern Thailand. The fellowship provides promising mid-career journalists from Asia the opportunity to participate in the three-semester master of arts program in the [...]
A Fellow’s FAQ
From Sui-Lee in response to some of our questions about the fellowship: How did you hear about the fellowship? A friend had sent me an email asking me to apply. Why did you apply? What were your objectives? I wanted to become more of a specialist in reporting on financial news and I thought the MBA [...]
Why Apply?
Some potential applicants have asked me what was the motivation of previous fellows in applying. So I asked them. Here’s what some have said: Serena Ng: I very much wanted to go to the U.S. to study and get a degree, I didn’t have the opportunity to do so as an undergraduate beyond a one-semester [...]
2010 winner: Saabira Chaudhuri
We’re pleased to announce the WSJ Fellowship winner: Saabira Chaudhuri: Saabira Chaudhuri is the Multimedia Editor for Mint, India’s second most widely read business newspaper. As part of her role at Mint, Ms. Chaudhuri creates videos, podcasts, slideshows and other multimedia content for the paper’s website, Livemint.com. Ms. Chaudhuri also writes articles for the website [...]
Fellowship’s First Recruit Gets Her Own WSJ Column
Shefali Anand, the first recipient of the "Wall Street Journal Journalism in Asia Fellowship", has just launched her own column in the Wall Street Journal Online’s Indian subsection. Shefali Anand is a staff reporter with the Wall Street Journal in New Delhi, writing about personal finance for an Indian audience. Prior to that, she was [...]
Jason Leow’s Testimonial
Here’s a testimonial from Jason Leow, another alumni: I have been reporting from China for nearly six years now. Before I joined the Wall Street Journal, in March 2007, I was a China correspondent for a regional English-language paper, The Straits Times, where I covered social and political issues from Beijing and Shanghai. The highlight [...]
Writings of a Chinese Fellow
Here’s an example of some of the writing from Eva Woo, another WSJ NYU fellow, when she worked at The Wall Street Journal: “Giving Lamp a “Green” Light” June 23, 2007 “Top podcasters: Poe, Austen and Hardy” June 30, 2007 “That’s Quite a Rock: ‘Rough’ diamonds — some looking more like gravel than gems — [...]
Video Profiles of BER Alumni
If you’re looking for an idea of what successful applicants might be in for, check out some great videos of previous alumni of the Business and Economic Reporting course. In particular watch the video of Singaporean Serena Ng (above), who was one of two winners of the first fellowship. She now works on the WSJ’s [...]
Sui-Lee’s Testimonial
Here’s a testimonial from Sui-Lee Wee about her experience on the course. More testimonials to come: Despite having one and a half years of experience reporting for the Associated Press and Reuters in Singapore, I still felt that I had so much more to learn, if I wanted to be among the best in business [...]