{"id":65723,"date":"2014-03-06T03:36:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T03:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=65723"},"modified":"2014-03-06T03:36:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T03:36:43","slug":"masters-scholarship-in-journalism-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=65723","title":{"rendered":"Masters Scholarship in Journalism in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i>Freetown 5<sup>th<\/sup> March 2014<\/i><\/b><b>:<\/b> SLAJ members would recall that at an Extraordinary General Meeting on Friday 28<sup>th<\/sup> February, it was announced that a scholarship had been awarded to SLAJ by the Chinese Ambassador for a Masters degree program in journalism in China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It would also be recalled that the condition given was that the awardee must be a good first-degree holder and under 35 years old.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SLAJ Executive imposed further qualification, that the awardee must be a fully paid-up member.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Executive would like to make it known that it received only two applications: the first was from journalist Matthew Abdul Kanu, the SLAJ Chair North, and another from Augustine Samba of the Awareness Times newspaper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After screening of the two (2) applications, it came out clear that while Matthew Kanu was a fully paid-up SLAJ member, Augustine Samba did not meet this criterion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SLAJ Executive therefore took the decision to award the scholarship to <b>Matthew Abdul Kanu<\/b> as he was the only applicant to have met all the criteria set.<\/p>\n<p><i>SLAJ<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freetown 5th March 2014: SLAJ members would recall that at an Extraordinary General Meeting on Friday 28th February, it was announced that a scholarship had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":6182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,11448],"tags":[769,708],"class_list":["post-65723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local-news","tag-education","tag-slaj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}