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Carter Fellow Fiza Pirani’s Foreign Bodies wins inaugural Substack Independent Writers Grant
Fiza Pirani, a freelance writer and 2018-2019 Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism, was awarded an Independent Writers Grant from email newsletter publisher Substack for her Foreign Bodies newsletter. Pirani’s newsletter, which centers on immigrant and refugee experiences with a mission to de-stigmatize mental illness and encourage personal storytelling,…
Carter Fellow Thomas Curwen wins Columbia J-School’s Mike Berger Award
Columbia Journalism School announced that reporters from the Los Angeles Times, including 2002-2003 Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism Thomas Curwen, have won the 2020 Meyer “Mike” Berger Award. [Read the full announcement from Columbia Journalism School] Curwen, a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, and staff photographer…
‘Connection, distance and empathy’: Judith Warner on the book she wished she had when her daughter hit middle school
“And Then They Stopped Talking to Me” comes at a time when the ambient anxiety of illness, job losses and economic uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 will undoubtedly affect middle schoolers’ families. But it may not be all negative. By Susan Pearson Hunsinger Program Assistant, The Carter Center Mental Health Program ATLANTA…
How Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellows are helping communities cope with COVID-19
By Kari Cobham Senior Associate Director, Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowships & Media ATLANTA — Alia Dastagir was eight months pregnant when she came to the Carter Center last year for training on mental health reporting. She wondered how she’d soon balance being a mother of two, her work…
Deadline extended for Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism
ATLANTA (April 3, 2020) — The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism is extending its deadline for applications, recommendations and the applicant letter of support to April 29, 2020, for journalists who are U.S. citizens and residents. Fellows are still expected to be announced Wednesday, July 15, 2020, on…