The Foundation has named Carole A. Carmichael and Eyal Press as Visiting Journalists for Spring 2016. Carmichael, who is Assistant Managing Editor at The Seattle Times, will investigate the outcomes of black and Hispanic recipients of a 1968 scholarship to New York University, tracing how this educational opportunity has affected recipients’ economic and social capital over more than four decades. Press, a contributor to the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, and other publications, will complete a book which explores “society’s most thankless, morally compromising jobs,” including immigrants working in meatpacking plants, maximum-security prison guards, and military drone operators.

Visiting Journalists work at RSF on projects related to the Foundation's core programs for a period of 1-3 months alongside resident Visiting Scholars. The next deadline for applications is May 2, 2016 for residency in the fall of 2016.

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