For people such as Mohammadi, the effects have been far-reaching. Even so, she was surprised to learn that the sanctions would have applied to the online school without the exemption. Our five-day Summer School, aimed at practising journalists worldwide, is designed to help you better understand the challenges you face in an ever-changing media landscape, and to help you take your career and your work to the next level. The organizers had been told they risked violating sanctions set by the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), part of the US Department of the Treasury.
“It’s just basic science.”Megan Peters, the chair of the Neuromatch Academy board of directors and a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Irvine, agrees. “It’s meant to protect us against the Iranians building a nuclear bomb. “I was a bit concerned about the coronavirus, but there is no alternative given the situation,” said Kim Soo-goon, whose home was filled with debris and mud following a landslide. May 2018 – Present 2 years 4 months.
The revocation of their registration sparked outrage on social media. We are only accepting applications for industry-funded places. But, as the start date approached, an embargo lawyer told them that they risked violating the prohibition on providing goods or services to Iran.Ryan Costello, the policy director of the National Iranian American Council, a non-partisan, non-profit body founded in 2002 to give voice to the Iranian American community, explains that there are some academic exemptions to the sanctions law. Massive open online courses might be accessible from platforms in countries that have not imposed sanctions, or from sites that have obtained special licences. The agency declined to comment for this story.Those who were finally able to attend were pleased, but still expressed concern over the continuing impacts of US sanctions. Kording, too, hopes for a larger change to the sanctions law. The Reuters Institute Digital Report reveals new insights about digital news consumption based on a representative survey of online news consumers in the USA, UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Italy, Urban Brazil and Japan. About the Program. 17 Mar 2017.
US rules forced an online neuroscience course to block people in Iran from signing up, but the organizers won a last-minute reprieve. Oct 2017 – May 2018 8 months. Our programme is one of the world’s leading schemes for practising, mid-career journalists to take some time out from their day jobs to explore journalism in depth.Through personal research, seminars, networking events and discussions with your peers, you will further your understanding of journalism, the news industry and your place in it.Applications are now closed for fellowships beginning in October 2020 or January 2021. Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. Contributing Author. As an Afghan refugee resident in Iran since 1998, he was familiar with the US visa rejections that commonly obstruct prospective students and conference delegates from Iran from entering the nation. This year's report covers 40 countries in six continents. Our five-day Summer School, aimed at practising journalists worldwide, is designed to help you better understand the challenges you face in an ever-changing media landscape, and to help you take your career and your work to the next level.You will take part in seminars on misinformation, revenue models and new technology, as well as discussions about ethics, free speech, democracy and economics and finance. US travel restrictions affect Iranian academics and students who wish to enter or re-enter the United States.Nosratullah Mohammadi was one of around 60 people based in Iran who signed up for the Neuromatch Academy online course. Our Senior Research Associate Nic Newman explains the rise of these formats and why they can help newspapers in the digital age.Watch our seminar with Denise Lievesley, Principal at Green Templeton College and former Director of Statistics at UNESCO. ANSEONG, South Korea (Reuters) - Tents erected in a school gym in the South Korean city of Anseong provided shelter on Wednesday for some families among more than 1,000 people made homeless by landslides and floods caused by the country’s longest period of rain in seven years. Sitting at the Anseong shelter, which housed 33 people as of Wednesday, 83-year-old Kwon Cha-soon’s eyes filled with tears as she described losing everything to a landslide. Digital News Report 2020. (Iran has also previously banned US citizens from entering the country. A piece by the outgoing Today programme's Editor Sarah Sands.Mark Frankel explores how journalists can work with online communitiesFactsheet from the UK COVID-19 News and Information ProjectThis factsheet analyses the percentage of non-white top editors in five countries.The Reuters Institute organises dozens of events every year, featuring leading journalists, news executives, academics and campaigners from around the world. Mohammadi has moved computing projects from GitHub to GitLab, a Ukrainian-founded company that doesn’t offer all of GitHub’s features but remains available to him, even though it, too, is headquartered in the United States.
and JavaScript.Nosratullah Mohammadi had never bothered applying to attend a scientific event in the United States. A look at the threats journalists face across the region.A look at the gender breakdown of the senior editorial leaders across 200 news outlets.Our programmes are designed to give senior managers, journalists and editors insights into the latest research and new thinking.The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is dedicated to exploring the future of journalism worldwide through debate, engagement, and research.We believe in the value of independent journalism, the power of news, and the importance of an informed public. commits us to providing an independent forum for exchanges between practitioners and analysts of journalism, and all those affected by it. The payment deadline for those accepted on the programme is “I’m glad that people reacted and were outraged about it on Twitter and other social media,” says Athena Akrami, an Iranian computational neuroscientist at University College London.