The Harkness Fellowship is a program run by the Commonwealth Fund of New York City. This fellowship was established to reciprocate the Rhodes Scholarships and enable Fellows from several countries to spend time studying in the United States.
Alan Charles Rusbridger is a British journalist, who was formerly editor-in-chief of The Guardian and then principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Article 19 is an international human rights organisation that works to defend and promote freedom of expression and freedom of information worldwide. It was founded in 1987. The organisation takes its name from Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; the right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers.
Mark William Bolland is a British public relations executive. Bolland worked for the Advertising Standards Authority and the Press Complaints Commission before serving as Deputy Private Secretary to Charles, Prince of Wales, from 1997 to 2002. During his time with Charles, Bolland was credited with rehabilitating the prince's public image and enhancing the public image of the relationship between Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, who would become the prince's second wife. After leaving the Prince Charles, Bolland established a public relations and communications firm, Mark Bolland & Associates, and has held several roles in the charitable and third sector.
Trailfinders is a British travel company in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Sir Rodney Malcolm Aldridge is the founder and former executive chairman of Capita, a British company specialising in business process outsourcing.
Juliet Gellatley is a British writer and animal rights activist. She is the founder and director of Viva! and a former director of the Vegetarian Society. She is also a founding director of The Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation, now known as Viva!Health, along with Tony Wardle, with whom she was married and has two sons, Jazz and Finn, born in 2002.
Stewart Peter Purvis CBE is a British broadcaster, broadcasting executive, author and academic.
Lee Willard Edwards is an American conservative academic and author, currently a fellow at The Heritage Foundation. He is a historian of the conservative movement in America.
Attash Durrani was a Pakistani linguist, researcher, critic and author, educationist and gemologist. He wrote more than 275 books and approximately 500 papers in Urdu and English, left impact on the disciplines of Language, Education and Computer Science or I.T., and received Tamgha-i-Imtiaz and Sitara-e-Imtiaz for his work of Urdu language and literature.
Max Foster is an anchor and correspondent for CNN, based in London. He hosts the 1pm GMT edition of CNN Newsroom.
Edith Kinney Gaylord, also referred to as Edith Gaylord Harper, was an American journalist and philanthropist.
Richard James Ayre was a member of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation until its abolition in 2016. He is a former member for England of the Ofcom Content Board and chair of its Broadcast Review Committee. He was formerly a BBC journalist, first as a radio and television reporter in Belfast through the 1970s, before becoming the Home News Editor in London (1979–84), Head of BBC Westminster (1989–93), Controller of Editorial Policy (1993–96) and Deputy Chief Executive of BBC News (1996–2000).
Mick Dennis is a retired sports writer, broadcaster, editor and author. He attended Isleworth Grammar School before taking a National Council for the Training of Journalists course at Harlow College and then training as a reporter on the Eastern Daily Press. In a career of more than 40 years in newspapers he wrote for The Sun, The Sunday Times, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Telegraph, the London Evening Standard and The Daily Express,. During the first 15 years of the 2000s he appeared regularly on Sky News, had a weekly spot on Sky Sports News, was a guest presenter on Talksport radio and LBC radio and frequently contributed to programmes on BBC Radio 5 Live. He was a magistrate from 2005 until 2022 and was an active football referee for more than 25 years. He worked as a volunteer in the communications department of the international aid charity Plan UK and was a trustee of Victim Support Hertfordshire. He still mentors young referees. He has served on various funding panels for the Football Foundation and is currently vice-chair of the Premier League & FA Facilities Fund. He was a trustee of Norwich City's Community Sports Foundation for nine years, during which that organisation raised funds for, and opened, a community sports and education hub: The Nest. He was a trustee and director of the Dacorum Sports Trust from its formation in 2003 until May 2018 and was its chair for five years, during which the Trust built an extreme sports facility. On resigning from the board of trustees he became an honorary patron. He was a founder member of Kick it Out's grassroots advisory group. He collaborated with referee Graham Poll on the latter's autobiography, "Seeing Red", and "Geoff Hurst, The Hand of God and the Biggest Rows in Football." He has written a book about football, The Team, which is part of the Quick Reads Initiative series of books, aimed at readers who lack confidence, and has contributed to four anthologies of sports writing. After retiring from newspaper and broadcast journalism in 2015 he edited three volumes of Norwich City essays called Tales From The city. He was one of the original contributors to the Norwich City blogsite My Football Writer and continues to write occasional columns for that site. He lives in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and has been married for more than 45 years. He and his wife, Sarah, a former journalist and charity worker, have two married sons and six grandchildren.
Nalaka Gunawardene trained as a science writer, he has worked as a journalist, broadcaster and development communicator since 1987.
Sharon Marcus is an American academic. She is currently the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She specializes in nineteenth-century British and French literature and culture, and teaches courses on the 19th-century novel in England and France, particularly in relation to the history of urbanism and architecture; gender and sexuality studies; narrative theory; and 19th-century theater and performance. Marcus has received Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim Fellowship, and ACLS fellowships, and a Gerry Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award at Columbia. She is one of the senior editors of Public Culture, as well as a founding editor and Fiction Review Editor of Public Books.
Jonathan E. Malaya is a Filipino writer, author, businessman, and public official who is currently the Undersecretary Secretary for Department of Interior and Local Government. As an additional, he also manage PDP Laban Federalism Institute, as its Executive Director, the institute is a political think tank established by Senate President Koko Pimentel. He is also a member of the Technical Working Group advising the House of Representatives on proposed amendments to the Constitution. In the past he also served as Assistant Secretary in the Office of the President of the Philippines, and Assistant Secretary for Special Projects and Legislative Liaison in the Department of Education of the Philippines.
Jonathan Sacerdoti is a British journalist based in the United Kingdom. He covers stories relating to the UK and Europe, as well as terrorism and extremism stories, race relations, Middle East analysis and the British royal family. He is also a campaigner against antisemitism.
New York City has been called the media capital of the world. An integral component of this status is the significant array of journalists who report about international, American, business, entertainment, and New York metropolitan area-related matters from Manhattan.
Kevin Davey is a British author of experimental fiction.
