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Current Western Enterprise Reporting Fellows
Each academic year, the Bill Lane Center welcomes up to six working journalists to Stanford as Western Enterprise Reporting Fellows. The fellowship program is designed to spur new reporting on Western topics by giving working reporters time and resources to explore a topic in depth. During a residence of up to two weeks, fellows develop articles and broadcast series on the environment, politics, and culture of the Western U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Proposals for reporting that explores transnational themes, in particular the relationship between the Western U.S. and Canada or Mexico, are encouraged. The work produced as a result of these fellowships has been published or broadcast in a wide variety of media, from national and regional newspapers to public radio and major foreign newspapers and newsmagazines. Click here for information about applying.
John Daley is a television reporter in Salt Lake City, specializing in political, environmental and investigative coverage. He also teaches journalism at the University of Utah, and was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, where he studied "Leadership in the Age of Global Warming." John will be visiting the Center in October; he is planning to research and write about the impact of the crisis in journalism on coverage of the environment and global warming.
Verlyn Klinkenborg
He is the acclaimed author of several books, and of the much-loved column “The Rural Life,” which appears on the The New York Times editorial page
twenty-six times a year. Tom Brokaw has called Klinkenborg “our modern Thoreau”; others hear echoes of E. B. White in his voice. Like both of them, Klinkenborg observes the juncture at which our lives and the
natural world intersect, and finds the luminous details that transform everyday experiences into luminous and revitalizing prose.
His books include The Rural Life, Making Hay, The Last Fine Time, and Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile. He has published extensively in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, National Geographic, Mother Jones and other periodicals, and has been a member of the editorial board of the New York Times since 1997.
Klinkenborg was born in Colorado and raised on an Iowa family farm. He graduated from Pomona College, received a PhD from Princeton, and teaches creative writing at Fordham University and Harvard University and is a visiting professor at Bard College and the visiting writer in residence at Pomona College. In 2007, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, which is funding his current writing project,The Mermaids of Lapland, about the 18th-century English radical and farmer William Cobbett.
Mr. Klinkenborg lives in rural New York state.
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