Welcome and thank you visiting the Kurt Schork Memorial Fund web site.  Visit us again soon as we add new information and resources on a regular basis. Click on the links below to learn more about the Fund, its leadership and how to support the Fund's work.  We also are starting a page containing sources for information on journalism around the world.

The Kurt Schork Memorial Fund was created in honor of Kurt Schork, an American journalist who was killed in a military ambush while on assignment for Reuters on May 24, 2000 in Sierra Leone.  The Schork family and friends of Kurt Schork, with start-up support from Reuters, established the Fund as a 501(c)(3) organization in March 2001. 

It was the work of freelancers and local journalists that Schork valued above all.  As a result, Kurt Schork’s family decided the best way to honor his legacy was to acknowledge those journalists with whom he had a particular bond.  The Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism were created to honor fearless freelance news reporting, and those journalists who cannot leave their country when the story becomes secondary to survival.  Two annual prizes of $5,000 each are awarded, one to a freelance journalist covering foreign news, and the second to a local journalist in the developing world or countries in transition.  The award process is managed by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York.

The recipients of the Kurt Schork Memorial Awards in International Journalism and the Kurt Schork Memorial Scholarships are honored at an awards ceremony each fall in New York. Both programs are administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, home of the Pulitzer Prize, Cabot Prize and other prestigious awards

Special Updates:

KSMF to enter into partnership with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting and the Dart Center - Click here for more information.

2003 Award Ceremony Held on October 28 in New York - Click here for more information.

For more information, please feel free to contact us by email at info@ksmfund.org.

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