"Bethel Habte (_at_bethel_habte) is a reporter and audio producer based
in the Washington D.C. metro area who will join the Reuters digital
team in New York. She just completed an M.S. in multimedia journalism
at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern, specializing in
business, audio and interactive reporting. Bethel is a Texas-born,
Virginia-raised, Eritrean-American who's semi-fluent in Spanish. She
has traveled to Eritrea, Ecuador, Peru and Nicaragua, and has worked
on and managed news teams starting in high school and into college"
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Reuters announces six Reuters-National Association of Black
Journalists fellowships
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NEW YORK, October 1, 2015 - Today Reuters, the world's largest
international multimedia news provider, announced six Reuters-National
Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Fellows. The program honors
rising reporters, recent graduates or business professionals who
demonstrate a clear commitment to a career in journalism and an
ability to generate story ideas relevant for a Reuters audience, with
a focus on multimedia, using text, video and/or graphics.
The paid fellowship program, in its first year, offers up to nine
months of hands-on, real-world experience in a Reuters bureau. The
fellowship, open to members of the NABJ, is part of the Reuters News
Trainee Program, during which participants gain a deep grounding in
financial and/or general news reporting, work on fast-paced news
stories and develop skills in enterprise journalism.
"We are proud to welcome these bright journalists in their early
careers to the Reuters family and to offer them this exciting
opportunity through our partnership with the NABJ," said Reuters
Editor-in-Chief Stephen J. Adler. "The work the NABJ organization does
in expanding diversity in journalism is critical and we're committed
to collaborating with them and others to increase diversity and
inclusion at Reuters."
"The Reuters-NABJ Fellowship is an awesome opportunity for both
emerging and veteran journalists to work inside one of the world's
most influential media companies," said NABJ President Sarah Glover.
"From Dakar to Chicago, these fellows will be contributing to a
cutting edge news operation, shooting video and reporting the big
stories happening across the globe. This NABJ and Reuters partnership
will produce great journalism online, in print and on-air. I'm
ecstatic about the possibilities for NABJ members at Reuters."
This year's Reuters-NABJ Fellows are:
Makini Brice (_at_makinibrice) will continue with Reuters in the Dakar
bureau, where she has been an Overseas Press Club fellow with Reuters
since the beginning of June, as the recipient of the club's Flora
Lewis Award. She won the prize by submitting a portion of her
reporting on children who had migrated to the country alone, primarily
from sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. She is also part of a team of
journalists who were nominated earlier this year for an Emmy for a
story about Senegalese schoolchildren who beg for food and tuition
money for certain Koranic schools. Makini has a joint M.A. from New
York University in Global Journalism and French Studies, and a B.F.A.
from the University of Southern California in Writing for Screen and
Television.
Gina Cherelus (_at_jeanuh_) is taking on a breaking news post with a
social media focus in New York for Reuters. After interning for ELLE
magazine and The Miami Herald, Gina worked for Forbes Travel Guide in
Atlanta. She was born in Fort. Lauderdale, Fla. and spent most of her
life growing up in the South Florida area. She relocated to
Tallahassee to attend college at Florida A&M University where she
received a Bachelor's of Science in journalism. At FAMU's School of
Journalism & Graphic Communications, she was editor-in-chief of the
university's award-winning magazine, Journey. Throughout her personal
and professional career, she's grown an interest in stories relating
to women's issues, politics, technology, race issues, film and
environmental issues.
Bethel Habte (_at_bethel_habte) is a reporter and audio producer based in
the Washington D.C. metro area who will join the Reuters digital team
in New York. She just completed an M.S. in multimedia journalism at
the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern, specializing in
business, audio and interactive reporting. Bethel is a Texas-born,
Virginia-raised, Eritrean-American who's semi-fluent in Spanish. She
has traveled to Eritrea, Ecuador, Peru and Nicaragua, and has worked
on and managed news teams starting in high school and into college.
Marcus E. Howard (_at_MarcusEHoward) will join the Reuters markets desk
in New York. He has worked primarily as a government reporter for
several years, writing for the Los Angeles Times, Minneapolis Star
Tribune and daily newspapers in his home state of Georgia. He has
earned two professional awards for his work, a 2014 Georgia Press
Association Better Newspaper Contest award with two colleagues for
community service reporting on the use of taxpayer money and a 2013
Georgia Associated Press Media Editors award for business writing on
the public impact of construction of an outlet mall. He completed a
bachelor's in political science from Boston College and master's in
journalism from Columbia University.
Justin Madden (_at_IAmJustinMadden) will join the Chicago bureau for
Reuters, where he will focus on the agriculture commodities markets.
He is currently the Digital Breaking News Reporter at the Lexington
Herald-Leader newspaper in Kentucky, covering cops and courts, and
everything in between. Justin won a Kentucky Press Association Award
for a hotel explosion in 2014 and anchored a team of reporter's that
won a McClatchy President's Award for their aggressive coverage of the
NCAA Championship celebrations that showed fans burning couches,
fighting and police shooting rubber bullets. Justin has worked with
WKYT-TV, the newspaper's reporting partner, on stories focused on
suicide, heroin and babies born addicted. Justin has interned at Black
Entertainment Television (BET), Columbia Broadcasting Systems (CBS) on
the hit show 'Criminal Minds.' A native of Los Angeles, Justin
graduated from Grambling State University, where he served as
editor-in-chief for The Gramblinite newspaper, 2012-2013. Justin was
also the Vice President of Print and President of Grambling's NABJ
chapter.
Clarece Polke (_at_clarepolke) will join the Washington bureau at Reuters
in February. She is currently an education and night cops reporter for
the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She has held multimedia reporting and
production internships with Scripps-Howard, Gannett and MSNBC. She
also reported live from several matches during the 2010 FIFA World Cup
in South Africa and spent seven months studying abroad in southern
China. A native of Archer, Fla., and a 2013 graduate of Florida A&M
University's School of Journalism and Graphic Communication, Clarece
is an avid dancer and flag football/yoga enthusiast.
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