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Established in partnership with the Alfred
Friendly Press Fellowships, the Daniel Pearl
Fellowship brings promising, mid-career foreign
journalists to work for six months in a US newsroom.
It is an invitation to Danny's former journalism
colleagues to continue his mission by writing
for the audiences for whom he wrote, working with
his colleagues and getting to know the U.S. press
from the inside.
The 2008 winners of the Daniel Pearl Fellowship are Utku Çakirözer (Turkey), reporter for Daily Milliyet and Umar Cheema (Pakistan), special correspondent with The News International.
 Utku Çakirözer, age 37, is the second Daniel Pearl Fellow to join the staff of the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Çakirözer works in Ankara for the English language newspaper Milliyet, reporting on politics, defense and foreign policy. He has interviewed dignitaries including Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Saudia Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal. |
 Umar Cheema, age 29, is the first Daniel Pearl Fellow to work at the New York Times. Mr. Cheema works in Islamabad for Karachi based The News International, reporting on politics, jihadi outfits and terrorism. He served as the Secretary General of the Islamabad chapter of the South Asia Free Media Association, and is working on a book about the history of suicide bombing. |
The 2007 winner of the Daniel Pearl Fellowship is Amr Emam (Egypt), reporter with the Egyptian Gazette, a Cairo-based newspaper.
Amr Emam, age 28, is the first Daniel Pearl Fellow from Egypt and the first to be placed at the San Francisco Chronicle, working from March to August this year. Mr. Emam recently spoke at a Daniel Pearl Foundation event and said, “I am a completely changed man and it is all thanks to the family who, once losing a dear and exquisite son, decided to trade good for evil. Instead of grieving, they decided to change the world and put understanding in place of ignorance, light in place of darkness." |
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The 2006 winners of the Daniel Pearl Fellowships were Ghanashyam Ojha (Nepal), Senior Reporter for The Kathmandu Post and. Shahid Hussain Shah (Pakistan), business reporter for The News International.
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Ghanashyan Ojha, age 34, is the first Daniel Pearl Fellow from Nepal and the first to work at the North Adams Transcript/Berkshire Eagle, where Danny began his career. |
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Shahid Hussain Shah, age 29, is the third Daniel Pearl Fellow to work at the Washington DC Bureau of the Wall Street Journal.
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In 2005 this program expanded to sponsor two
mid-career journalists from South Asia, North
Africa or the Middle East to work from March –
September 2005 in newsrooms.
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Walid Al-Saqaf,
editor-in-chief of The Yemen Times, Yemen’s
first English-language newspaper will work
at the Washington, DC bureau of The Wall Street
Journal. Mr. Al-Saqaf, age 31, will be the
second Daniel Pearl Fellow hosted by The Wall
Street Journal, where Daniel Pearl worked. |
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Ammara Durrani,
assistant editor of The News International,
Pakistan’s most widely distributed English
daily, will join the staff of the Los Angeles
Times. Ms. Durrani, age 28, will be the first
Daniel Pearl Fellow at Daniel Pearl’s hometown
paper. |
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|  Mr.
Fasih Ahmed , an editor for the Lahore, Pakistan-based
Friday Times and Daily Times,
was the first Daniel Pearl Fellow. He was a member
of the Wall Street Journal 's Washington,
DC bureau - where Danny worked from 1993-1996
- from June-November 2003. This was the first
such Fellow at the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Ahmed
also spent the first week of December at the Jewish
Journal in Los Angeles, CA . Read Fasih Ahmed's
"Reflections
on American Journalism" essay.
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