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The Media Management Center at Northwestern University is saddened and yet honored to announce the Ernesto Galvis-Blanco Fellowship. It is a full-tuition-paid scholarship to the Advanced Executive Program, the most senior newspaper seminar in North or South America.

Ernesto Galvis-Blanco died at age 30 on June 19th, 2002. He was the general manager of Vanguardia Liberal in Bucaramanga, Colombia. He was the son of Alejandro Galvis, a founder of the Inter American Press Association Cost and Management seminar.

To honor him, this fellowship will be awarded to a Latin American newspaper business or management executive who is under the age of 35 and has the potential to carry on Ernesto’s legacy.

The woman or man chosen to be the Ernesto Galvis-Blanco Fellow will receive full coverage for the $19,800 for tuition and room and board for the Advanced Executive Program held at Northwestern University each year.

Details and deadlines of the application process as well as Ernesto’s biography are listed in this announcement. If you know someone who qualifies for this fellowship, please give them this announcement. Please ask your nation’s press association to publicize it.

Application Process

Applicants should submit via e-mail a short essay of no more than two pages in English. The essay should detail the applicant’s education and work history, ambitions for a free, excellent and well- managed press and ideas on how the Advanced Executive Program will help fulfill those ambitions. Details about AEP can be found at www.MediaManagementCenter.org. The essay should also include the applicant’s full name, the name of their newspaper, their title, and e-mail address as well as their mailing addresses and all other pertinent personal information.

Applicants should also submit a statement from a leader of their newspaper that attests as specifically as possible to their excellence and to their potential role when they return from AEP. (These letters of support may be in English or Spanish.)

Essays must be received by November 1, 2002. Their receipt will be acknowledged by e-mail when accompanied by an e-mail address.

Applicants must be proficient with the ability to read, write and speak in English. All readings, lectures and class discussions will be conducted in English so strong language skills are important.

Fellowship recipients must also have support from their newspaper or other sources to pay for their airfare and incidentals expenses for the two, two week sessions of the Advanced Executive Program from February 10-21, 2003, and then from March 24 - April 4, 2003. All other expenses will be paid by the fellowship in including tuition, room and board, curricular materials, etc.

Selection

The Ernesto Galvis Fellow for 2003 will be chosen by December 1, 2002. The winner will be asked to complete a short biographical sketch.
Apply to:
John Lavine
Professor/Director
Media Management Center
Northwestern University
j-lavine@northwestern.edu
Fax: 1-847.491.5619