Atlanta Freelance Writer Awarded Reuters Oxford Journalism Fellowship

Posted on February 23, 1998

Deborah Scroggins, a freelance writer specializing in humanitarian issues, won this year's Reuters Fellowship for US journalists at Oxford University.

Scroggins, 36, from Atlanta, Georgia, will spend three months studying African history and anthropology as a member of the Reuter Foundation Program for international journalists at Green College, Oxford, starting next October.

Formerly with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Scroggins has already won a series of Overseas Press Club and other professional awards for her reporting from Africa and elsewhere, particularly on humanitarian issues.

The Oxford Fellowship is sponsored by Reuters America Inc. and administered by the Reuter Foundation, the international news group's educational and humanitarian trust. It offers mid-career American journalists an opportunity to carry out a personal course of study, into virtually any subject of their choice, using the academic resources of Oxford University.

Selection is by a panel including three senior American journalists: Robert G. Kaiser, Managing Editor of The Washington Post, Karl E. Meyer, Member of the Editorial Board of the New York Times, and James V. Risser, Director of the John S. Knight Program at Stanford University, California. The other panel members are Godfrey Hodgson, Director of the Reuter Foundation Program at Oxford, Stephen Jukes, Editor, Reuters America, and Stephen Somerville, Director of the Reuter Foundation.

The Reuter Foundation was set up by Reuters in 1982 as an educational trust to promote high standards in international journalism through study and training. It also administers the corporate support programs of the Reuters Holdings PLC group companies. For additional information about the Reuter Foundation or for scholarship application forms visit the web site at www.foundation.reuters.com.