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Posted, May. 21, 2001
Updated, May. 21, 2001


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Foster Davis Remembrances

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Foster Davis Remembrances
Over the course of more than 35 years in the business, Foster Davis worked with journalists in Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Missouri, Vietnam and South Africa. Please click here to post a tribute to Foster or read what others have written.


The Foster Davis Fellowships
for African Journalists

In honor of the many contributions of a creative journalist, nurturing teacher and practical humanist, The Poynter Institute is establishing the Foster Davis Fellowships for African Journalists.

Foster Davis has been a reporter, editor, coach, teacher and author - and a mainstay in Poynter's work on behalf of a free press with The Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in Johannesburg, South Africa. Foster planned and led training programs for journalists in South Africa and the southern region of Africa. With Paul Pohlman of Poynter, Foster organized extended annual visits to Poynter by individuals who are becoming leaders in African journalism.

The Foster Davis Fellowships will continue to inspire and underwrite the mission that Foster embraced. They will assist in funding the travel and related needs of African journalists selected to participate in extended visits to the United States, and will aid other Poynter efforts to train journalists in or from Africa. Poynter will continue to work, as Foster did, with I.A.J. and others committed to elevating the role and increasing the ability of journalists in South Africa and to extending that work on the African continent.

Poynter will administer the Fellowships from a fund established by Cheryl Carpenter, Foster's widow, an editor at The Charlotte Observer. Contributions in Foster's honor may be made directly to:

The Foster Davis Fellowships
The Poynter Institute
801 Third Street South
St. Petersburg, FL 33701


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