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From Helsingin Sanomat Foundation Record Stipends for Journalists to Study at Top Universities Abroad

The Board of the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation has funded mid-career fellowships for  journalists to study at foreign universities. The fellowship sums range from 30,000 euros per person to around 100,000 euros.

For the Innovation Journalism Fellowship Program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, two journalists from Helsingin Sanomat, Tanja Aitamurto, 30, and Irina Haltsonen, 33, and Carl-Gustav Lindén, 46, from Yleisradio, have been selected. The fellowship program, which begins in February 2008, will last five months. In addition to university instruction, the fellowship includes working with local newspapers, radio and television stations, and internet companies.

Awarded fellowships at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, located in Oxford University in Great Britain, were Kimmo Lundén, 46, from Kauppalehti; Annikka Mutanen, 42, from Tiedelehti; and Salla Nazarenko, 33, who works in crisis journalism in the special Institute for War and Peace Reporting in Georgia. In Oxford, the recipients choose their own study programs, which will last from three to nine months. International participants include journalists from the Japanese paper Asahi Shinbun and from Britain’s national broadcasting company, the BBC.

The fellowships from the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation cover tuition and travel. In addition, the Foundation has granted allowances to cover living expenses.

Altogether there were 39 applications for the fellowships.

The Foundation has reserved the amount of one million euros in next year’s budget for journalist fellowships and later, for fellowships for young media researchers who have recently completed their doctoral dissertations.