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The Walrus congratulates journalists Allison Baker, Viviane Fairbank, and Sadiya Ansari on their new fellowships.
The Michener Awards Foundation recently announced that its Michener-L. Richard O’Hagan Fellowship has been awarded to Allison Baker and Viviane Fairbank. Both are alumni of the esteemed editorial fellowship program at The Walrus. Fairbank, a former associate editor and head of research at The Walrus, and Baker, one of the founding contributors to The Walrus Fact-Checking project an independent initiative launched in 2018 to combat mis/disinformation online are also regular contributors to The Walrus.
The Michener-L. Richard O’Hagan Fellowship for Journalism Education will support the creation of a book-length version of The Walrus Fact-Checking Guide, a tool originally created by Fairbank and The Walrus to train editorial fellows and freelance fact-checkers. This award will enable Fairbank and Baker to expand on the guide first developed under Fairbank’s leadershi