The News scribe set for Pearl Fellowship
JournalismPakistan.com | Published: 22 March 2013
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Khalid Khattak of The News Lahore is set to participate in a prestigious five-and-a-half-month training program with The Wall Street Journal. Emran Hossain from Bangladesh will also join the fellowship, working at the Huffington Post.Summary
ISLAMABAD: Journalist Khalid Khattak, of The News Lahore is to soon start a five-and-a-half-month training program with The Wall Street Journal under the Daniel Pearl Journalism Fellowship.
The other South Asian journalist chosen for this year’s program is Emran Hossain from Dhaka, Bangladesh, whose home publication is the Web-based bdnews24.com. He will be having a stint at the Huffington Post.
The Daniel Pearl Foundation (www.danielpearl.org) was founded in 2002 by friends and family of The Wall Street Journal South Asia Bureau Chief Daniel Pearl after his murder in Pakistan by Islamic extremists.
Both Khalid and Emran will be working out of the Washington D.C. bureaus of the two publications.
KEY POINTS:
- Khalid Khattak selected for Daniel Pearl Fellowship.
- Training program lasts five-and-a-half months.
- Fellowship established by the Daniel Pearl Foundation in 2002.
- Khattak and Emran Hossain will work from Washington D.C.
- Emran Hossain represents bdnews24.com from Bangladesh.
