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R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship for 2019 to be Awarded on Parliament Hill

December 4, 2018

The recipient of the R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship, an annual $25,000 award, will be announced on Parliament Hill. The fellowship was created to honour the late Jim Travers and his passion for international affairs and Canadian foreign policy. It is administered by Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication in the Faculty of Public Affairs.

When: Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Where: Room 256-S of Centre Block, Parliament Hill, Ottawa

 

About the Travers Fellowship

Following his death in March 2011, friends and colleagues established the R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship as a tribute to the stellar journalism Travers practiced at home and abroad. The fellowship supports a significant foreign reporting project by a Canadian journalist or journalism student. This year’s selection committee included journalists and representatives of the Travers family and Carleton’s journalism program. Committee members selected this year’s winner from an impressive pool of candidates.

Travers was a reporter, foreign correspondent and general manager for Southam News. He also served as executive managing editor of the Toronto Star and editor of the Ottawa Citizen. At the time of his death, he was an award-winning national affairs columnist for the Toronto Star.


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