Ottawa – Carleton’s Marieke Walsh and Katherine Dunn, fourth-year journalism students, have won two of the three 2011 EU-Canada Young Journalist Awards.
Katherine Dunn won an award for her feature story entitled “In Greece, Decades of Debt Cast Uncertainty over the Future of the Young,” which focused on how the financial crisis was affecting young Greeks, particularly university graduates.
The story was part of her final project, a multimedia website she produced from Athens, for her exchange program at the Danish School of Journalism in 2010.
“I was able to report from Greece because I went on an exchange to a fantastic journalism school,” says Dunn. “It’s the kind of experience that really pays off over and over again. The teachers said to us: ‘Get on a plane, go somewhere you don’t speak the language and make it count.’ It’s not an opportunity you get every day.”
Marieke Walsh was awarded for her story, “Finding a place for the Roma in Europe.” It focused on the worst cases of discrimination against Roma people in Europe, primarily occurring in eastern Europe. After speaking with academics, NGOs and community groups, Walsh interviewed people involved with the Roma community in Toronto to get a better understanding of the discrimination that they escaped.
She hopes to work as a broadcast journalist in Europe and says her family connections fostered her interest in European issues from an early age.
“I couldn’t have been more excited when I got the call that I selected as an award winner,” says Walsh. “The opportunity to travel in Europe and learn about an institution as important as the European Union is incredible. I hope it will open doors for me in my future work as a journalist.”
As part of the award, they have won a one-week study tour of Europe, which includes a visit to the EU institutions in Brussels, paid for by the European Union.
info: exchangemagazine.com
Katherine Dunn won an award for her feature story entitled “In Greece, Decades of Debt Cast Uncertainty over the Future of the Young,” which focused on how the financial crisis was affecting young Greeks, particularly university graduates.
The story was part of her final project, a multimedia website she produced from Athens, for her exchange program at the Danish School of Journalism in 2010.
“I was able to report from Greece because I went on an exchange to a fantastic journalism school,” says Dunn. “It’s the kind of experience that really pays off over and over again. The teachers said to us: ‘Get on a plane, go somewhere you don’t speak the language and make it count.’ It’s not an opportunity you get every day.”
Marieke Walsh was awarded for her story, “Finding a place for the Roma in Europe.” It focused on the worst cases of discrimination against Roma people in Europe, primarily occurring in eastern Europe. After speaking with academics, NGOs and community groups, Walsh interviewed people involved with the Roma community in Toronto to get a better understanding of the discrimination that they escaped.
She hopes to work as a broadcast journalist in Europe and says her family connections fostered her interest in European issues from an early age.
“I couldn’t have been more excited when I got the call that I selected as an award winner,” says Walsh. “The opportunity to travel in Europe and learn about an institution as important as the European Union is incredible. I hope it will open doors for me in my future work as a journalist.”
As part of the award, they have won a one-week study tour of Europe, which includes a visit to the EU institutions in Brussels, paid for by the European Union.
info: exchangemagazine.com
