Associated in the initiation for the Fellowship. Co-coordinated the work for the institution of The Ashok Kumar Sarkar Fellowship in Journalism at Oxford, coordinating with the Board of Directors to establish the fellowship, 1984.
The Journalist Fellowship Programme is one of the world’s leading schemes for practising, mid-career journalists to take some time out from their day jobs to explore journalism in depth. The majority of our Journalist Fellows are fully-funded and they also receive a stipend to cover living and travel costs.
Through personal research, seminars, networking events and discussions with peers, the Fellow furthers understanding of journalism, the news industry and present development. While the Fellow is at Oxford, they work on a project that will be of direct impact to the candidate, career, newsroom and the wider media industry. The programme for working journalists and editors who will return to journalism after spending a few months at Oxford. The Journalist Fellowship Programme brings high calibre journalists to Oxford offering them a period of reflection and the opportunity to carry out media-based research. Its purpose is to allow journalists to tackle subjects in greater depth than is possible under deadline pressure.
The Fellowship was continued by The Reuters Institute.
