Onumah, 11 Editors Selected For IRP

The co-ordinator of the Abuja-based African Centre for Media & Information Literacy, Mr. Chido Onuma, and 11 other editors have been chosen for a nine-day trip to Kenya as part of the Gatekeeper Editors Programme of the International Reporting Project (IRP) of the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), USA.

Other editors selected for the programme are Juliana Resende (BR Press, Brazil); Charlott Schönwetter (Mädchenmannschaft, Germany); Sanchita Sharma (Hindustan Times, India);   Isaac Esipisu (Reuters; University of Witwatersrand, South Africa); Lola Huete Machado (El Pais, Spain); Julia Manning (Daily Mail, UK); Martin Robbins (The Guardian, UK); Lynn Schreiber (Jump! Magazine, UK); Irin Carmon (Salon.com, U.S.); Jeff Sharlet (Dartmouth College, KillingTheBuddha.com, U.S.); and   Mark Thoma (University of Oregon, Economist’s View, U.S.).

The trip, which holds between 17-26, June, 2012, is part of a special IRP bloggers’ trip focusing on issues of family health, reproductive issues and the impact of population growth.

The trip would also afford the senior journalists the opportunity to take part in an intensive programme to learn about Kenya as they are expected to spend every day visiting urban and rural residents, talking to youth leaders, doctors and health officials, leaders at NGOs, looking at the environmental, health and social impact of population growth.

The IRP is a non-profit journalism programme that has sent more than 400 journalists in media houses across the globe to more than 100 countries to report on global issues.