The International Media Institute, a collaboration between Dehli-based Society of Policy Studies and Washington, D.C.-based International Center for Foreign Journalists, will provide students with training in print, multimedia and new media. Scholarships are available for the 11-month course. Application deadlineis August 8. Visit the IMI website for more information.

Amateur and professional photojournalists who have lived in Africa for at least the past 12 months can submit their photos to "Picture This: Caring for the Earth." Application deadline is August 31. For more information, visit the Picture This website.

IWMF Advisory Council member Barbara Cochran, outgoing Radio and Television News Directors Association president, has been named one of the "Giants of Broadcasting" by the Library of American Broadcasting.

The International Media Institute, a project of Washington, D.C.-based International Center for Journalists and Dehli-based Society of Policy Studies will open this fall in New Dehli. The institute will provide professional training in print, multimedia and "new" media. To apply for the 11-month course, visit the IMII website. Deadline is August 8.

Amateur and professional photojournalists who have lived in Africa for the past 12 months can submit photos to "Picture This: Caring for the Earth." Special emphasis will be given to the role of women in protecting the environment. Deadline is August 31. For information, visit the "Picture This" website.

The Guardian Foundation and BBC World Trust are offering an online course for education journalists from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Deadline is July 8. To apply, visit the Transitions Online website.

African journalists are eligible for a course about the links between gender and health sponsored by the Women Empowerment and Reproductive Health Center in Abuja, Nigeria in September. Cost is $450. Deadline is July 30. More information is available on the Nigeria AIDS website.

The USC Annenberg School for Communication and The Getty Foundation are accepting applications for their three-week, mid-career education fellowship for arts, culture and entertainment editors, producers and writers.

The University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and the Getty Foundation are accepting applications for their annual Arts Journalism Fellowship, which will take place in Los Angeles in November. The program is oriented towards arts, culture and entertainment editors, producers and writers. The majority of the expenses related to the fellowship will be covered, and participants will receive a $500 stipend. Application deadline is July 14. For more information and to apply, visit USC Annenberg Web site.

For almost 20 years, Amira Hass has written critically about both Israeli and Palestinian authorities. A reporter and columnist for Ha’aretz Daily, she has demonstrated her ability to defy boundaries of gender, ethnicity and nationality in her pursuit of the truth in her reporting. In covering the Palestinian Occupied Territories, her goal has been to provide her readers with detailed information about Israeli policies and especially that of restrictions of the freedom of movement. For many years, she made her home first in Gaza City and then in Ramallah.

Jila Baniyaghoob, freelance reporter and editor-in-chief of the website Kanoon Zanan Irani (Iranian Women Center), has fearlessly reported on government and social oppression, particularly as they affect women. She has been fired from several jobs because she refuses to censor the subject matter of her reporting and several of her media outlets have been closed by the government. The topics of her reporting make her a target of the Iranian government. She has been beaten, arrested and imprisoned numerous times.

Iryna Khalip, a reporter and editor in the Minsk bureau of Novaya Gazeta, has been a journalist for more than 15 years in Belarus, one of the most oppressive countries toward journalists in the world. After working at a succession of newspapers, only to see them closed by the government, she now works for one of the most independent newspapers in the former Soviet Union. Khalip has been arrested, subjected to all-night interrogations and beaten by police, who keep her under constant surveillance.

Agnes Taile has reported on human rights and press freedom, including unflinching stories on the ineffectiveness and corruption of government officials. In 2006, while she was a reporter for Sweet FM, Taile received threats demanding that she stop her pursuit of government corruption. She ignored the threats. Not long afterward, she was abducted from her home at knife point by three hooded men, then beaten and left for dead in a ravine. Her show was cancelled after the attack. After recovering, Taile was determined to keep working as a journalist and landed a new job with Canal 2 covering the northern provinces of Cameroon.

The University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication is organizing the National Health Journalism Fellowship Seminar for professional print, broadcast and online U.S. journalists interested in health news. Each fellow will receive $2,000 upon completion of the program, which will focus on health care, immigrant health and health policy among other topics. Application deadline is August 14. To learn more about the seminar or to apply, visit the USC Annenberg Web site.

Christiane Amanpour, IWMF board member and CNN chief international correspondent, was interviewed by wOw about The New York Times’ decision to hold coverage of one of its reporters’ kidnapping. Read the interview on the wOw Web site.