Canadian journalists are invited to apply for the 2013 James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship. The $25,000 award is administered by Carleton University in order to finance a significant foreign reporting project by a Canadian freelance or full-time journalist working in any medium. The fellowship fund, now in its second year, commemorates the work of Jim Travers, a reporter, columnist, foreign correspondent and editor at the Ottawa Citizen and Toronto Star who passed away in March 2011.

The application deadline for the 2013 fellowship is November 12, 2012

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Katie DeRosa from the Victoria’s Times Colonist was named the inaugural recipient of the fellowship in March 2012. She is currently pursuing an investigation into the impact of Canada’s proposed tougher human smuggling laws on refugee claimants.