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Forbes Africa reporter receives U.S. fellowship

A reporter for Forbes Africa has been named the recipient of a fellowship that will give him training and experience in the United States this summer.

Forbes Media partnered with U.S. journalism foundation Alfred Friendly Press Partners to offer an editorial fellowship in the U.S. to a reporter from one of Forbes’ local licensed editions around the world.

The recipient of the Missouri School of Journalism’s Alfred Friendly Press Partners Fellowship, as selected by an executive team at Forbes and AFPP’s leadership, is Thobile Hans, a South African-based journalist from Forbes Africa. Hans is one of eight fellows chosen for the Alfred Friendly Press Partners 2016 fellowship program.

Beginning in March, Hans will spend several weeks training at the Alfred Friendly Press Partners at the Missouri School of Journalism –– followed by five months of training in Forbes’ newsroom in the company’s office in Jersey City, New Jersey.

“This fellowship opportunity is a testament to Forbes’ commitment to upholding the highest standards of professional journalism and to our interest in seeing our journalistic standards spread throughout the world among our global local licensees,” said Randall Lane, editor of Forbes magazine, in a statement.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.