Victoria Times Colonist: Katie DeRosa

Carleton University S School Of Journalism And Communication Dept: Katie DeRosa, a journalist with the Victoria Times Colonist, was named Wednesday as the first recipient of the $25,000 R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship, presented by Carleton University s School of Journalism and Communication, according to The Star. She plans to use the funding to travel to Thailand and Australia where Canada is taking inspiration for some of its own immigration laws and examine that country s detention of asylum-seekers and oTTAWA The experience of Australia s immigration laws and their possible influence on Canadian policy will be under the spotlight thanks to a fellowship named after former Toronto Star editor and columnist Jim Travers. DeRosa beat out 24 other applicants with her proposal to probe Canada s crackdown on human smuggling and its impact on refugee claimants. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.