Find support for your foreign reporting idea at National Press Club panel tonight

Do you have an idea for a story out of Africa, South America or just about anywhere in the world? While many news outlets no longer facilitate foreign reporting trips and have scaled back their foreign bureaus, there are organizations that are picking up that slack, helping foreign correspondents report on the ground -- just as reporters were meant to.

The International Correspondents and Freelancers Committees of the National Press Club are co-sponsoring an evening discussion tonight, Sept. 29, on the topic of finding grants to support your international reporting project. The event is planned from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the NPC's Conference Rooms. Tickets are free for club members and $10 for the public and can be purchased here.

The panel features representatives from four journalism nonprofits who have collectively aided thousands of journalists in traveling abroad for their stories, for which many went on to receive prestigious awards.

At this panel you are expected to receive practical tips on how to get to where you need to go including securing funding for your travel, figuring out vaccinations, emergency insurance, in-country transportation and lodging, and, most critically to success, finding a good fixer.

Come meet the people that can help make it happen.

Participants include:

• Nathalie Applewhite, managing director at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting


• Melody Schreiber, program manager at the International Reporting Project


• Elisa Tinsley, deputy vice president for programs at the International Center for Journalists


• Sandy Bergo, executive director, Fund for Investigative Journalism


• Rachel Oswald, moderator and co-chair of the International Correspondents Committee

For more information, contact Rachel Oswald at [email protected].