Academic Fellowships

Yahoo! has established international fellowships at Stanford University and Georgetown University to advance the work of journalists and scholars exploring the complex issues at the intersection of technology, free expression, privacy and global values.

Yahoo! International Values, Communications, Technology, and Global Internet Fellowship Fund at Georgetown University

The fellowship program at Georgetown University was established in 2007, and it supports the education and research activities of an annual Yahoo! Fellow in Residence and two Junior Yahoo! Fellows. The Yahoo! Fellows come from around the world, from diverse sectors (including corporations, government, academia, and civil society), and are responsible for multi-disciplinary research that explores how diverse international values apply to the development and use of new communications technologies, with a focus on Brazil, Russia, India and China.

Our Fellows at Georgetown University

2009-2010 | Evgeny Morozov

Evgeny is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and runs the magazine's influential and widely-quoted "Net Effect" blog about the Internet's impact on global politics.  Prior to his Yahoo! Fellowship, he was a fellow at George Soros's Open Society Institute, where he remains on the board of the Information Program (one of the leading and most experimental funders for technology projects that have an impact on open society and human rights). Before moving to the US, Evgeny was based in Berlin and Prague, where he was Director of New Media at Transitions Online, a media development NGO active in 29 countries of the former Soviet bloc. Evgeny's work has appeared in The Economist, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, Slate, Le Monde, The San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Review, Foreign Policy, Project Syndicate, Dissent and many other publications. He has appeared on CNN, CBS, SkyNews, CBC, Al Jazeera International, France 24, Reuters TV, NPR, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service. To hear a TED talk given by Evgeny, click here.

2008-2009 | Gaurav Mishra

Gaurav studied at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, held senior marketing roles at the Tata Group and co-founded Vote Report India. Gaurav is also the author of Gauravonomics, one of the most widely read blogs on India, social media and social change. Gaurav is currently the CEO of social media research and strategy company 20:20 Social. Click here to listen to Gaurav talk about his work. The Yahoo! Junior Fellows for 2008-2009 are Pavneet Singh and Ben Turner.

2007-2008 | Dr. Irene Wu

Dr. Wu is the Director of Research in the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), where she guides studies on international trends in regulatory policy on telecommunications, Internet, and media. Read more about her research.

Yahoo! International Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University

In 2006, we established the Yahoo! International Journalism Fellowship at Stanford to support the work of journalists from countries in which there are serious challenges to a free press.

Our Fellows at Stanford University

2009-2010 | Nadia Trinidad

Nadia Trinidad is a senior correspondent at the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Company in Manila, Philippines, and plans to study the psychological and sociological aspects of corruption in the media and design a manual to help news organizations mitigate the problem. Trinidad was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. She earned her bachelor's degree from Ateno de Manila University. She began her journalism career in 1997 as a reporter for a local TV network, Associated Broadcasting Company (ABC-5). In 1998, she became an economics reporter for ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp., the country's largest television network. Since 2002, she has been their Manila-based senior political correspondent, covering the bombings by separatist rebels in southern Philippines, the rise and fall of presidents through a "People Power" revolution, and the impeachment attempts and corruption scandals hounding the current administration. She has produced also several shows, including a newscast for overseas Filipinos and a political talk show.

2008-2009 | Abebe Gellaw

Abebe Gellaw is the founding editor of the Addis Ababa Voice and a career journalist who was a prisoner of conscience under the Meles regime in Ethiopia and then exiled to London. Abebe began his career as a freelance writer focusing on human rights and political issues. He then founded an independent, biweekly newspaper, Addis Express, which by early 1996, was forced to close down by the government. He has been a senior reporter and columnist for the Ethiopian Herald, a radio producer and broadcaster for Health Africa, the managing editor of New Vision, and a regular contributor and columnist for major Ethiopian cyber media outlets such as Ethiomedia.com, Nazret.com and Abugida.com. Click here to learn more about his story.

2007-2008 | Violet Gonda

Violet Gonda is a television and radio journalist from Zimbabwe. Her research focused on the development of media in emerging markets. Violet is currently a correspondent for SW Radio South Africa, which broadcasts uncensored news about Zimbabwe back into the country by any means necessary, including text messaging. Her programs include Newsreel, a daily news bulletin, and Hot Seat, which, true to its name, often features direct and occasionally confrontational conversations with world leaders. To hear Violet in action, please click here for her interview with Robert Charamba, the Mugabe regime's spokesperson. To learn more about Zimbabwe, see here for her recent conversation with President Jimmy Carter about the Elders and their humanitarian mission to Zimbabwe.

2006-2007 | Imtiaz Ali

Imtiaz Ali's research focused on the role of the news media in the growing divide between the West and the Muslim world since 9/11. As a Pakistani (Pashtun) journalist, Imtiaz Ali has reported on Al Qaeda, Taliban and militancy in the country's Tribal areas and Frontier Province for many publications including the BBC, London's Telegraph and the Washington Post. He has also worked for Pakistan's premier dailies, The News and Dawn. Since 9/11, Imtiaz has reported extensively on the rising Taliban's militancy and Pakistan's military operations against al-Qaeda operatives and their local tribesmen supporters in the tribal region. Imtiaz was born and raised in a traditional Pashtun family in Pakistan's Frontier Province, and earned his master's degrees in journalism and political science from the University of Peshawar. Imtiaz was named a Yale World Fellow in 2008, and he is currently a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington D.C., where he is writing a book about the Pakistan's Taliban.