The World Press Institute is a nonprofit organization, based in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, that offers a fellowship to foreign journalists.

The program brings 10 journalists each year from around the world to the United States to experience the complexities of U.S. life through the prism of a reporter working under First Amendment conditions.

WPI is committed to promoting excellence in international reporting and to fostering understanding about the role and responsibilities of a free press in a democracy.

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2008 WPI fellows include investigative reporters, news editors, and, reflective of the growing influence of online/new media, online journalists, covering everything from political conflicts in Zimbabwe to economics in China to healthcare issues in South America. They are spending spend eight weeks in the United States, being exposed to the free-press system in this country and the social and cultural diversity of the U.S.