International Reporting Opportunities
Travel the world.
Experience life as a foreign correspondent.
Journalism Without Walls
In 2025, students traveled to Sweden with Professor Sarah Baxter, Colvin Center Director. Stay tuned for our Summer 2026 destination.
Marie Colvin International Reporting Fellowship
A competitive program that gives a graduating senior a chance to live and work for an overseas news outlet.
Journalism Without Walls
Study Abroad Reporting Trip for Journalism Students

Sweden 2025
This unique course combined solutions journalism with first-hand international reporting. Students spent theSpring semester investigating gender equality initiatives with particular emphasis on developments in Sweden. Over the two-week reporting trip from May 24–June 7, 2025, students worked on joint and individual projects. Students identified stories, undertook research, and cultivated sources for their reporting. Travel and accommodation expenses were provided by the Journalism Without Walls program. View our stories here.
Previous Trips
This is the SoCJ's overseas reporting opportunity. During the weeks-long program, students travel with faculty to experience and report on life in different cultures around the globe.
The trip takes place during summer or winter break, and requires students to take a 3-credit on-campus course to learn about the country they'll be traveling to and to begin to lay the groundwork for finding and reporting stories.
The program is offered in partnership with the Stony Brook Study Abroad Office.
Journalism Unbound
Overseas reporting for recent graduates
This voluntary program is the result of a growing partnership between the SoCJ's Colvin Center and the IREX Community Solutions program, an international fellowship program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
In summer 2023, Professor Sarah Baxter, Colvin Center director, took two recent graduates to Moldova to report on Moldovan culture and the impact of the war in Ukraine. They also visited with Ecaterina Miscisina and Moldovan journalists.
Marie Colvin International Reporting Fellowship
Become a reporter with The Times U.S bureau in New York
Graduating seniors get their first taste working for a renowned international news outlet with this 12-week competitive program.
2025 Awardee
Melanie Karniewich
B.A. Journalism
East Northport, NY
Previous Awardees
2023: Melanie Formosa
2022: Sara Ruberg
2020: Rachael Eyler
2019: Brittany Bernstein
2018: Christopher Cameron
2017: Demi Guo
2016: Hanaa' Tameez