John Schidlovsky is the founding director of the International Reporting Project in Washington, D.C., a program he began in 1998 to encourage more in-depth international news coverage in the U.S. media. The project is based at The Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and has enabled more than 200 journalists to report from overseas for a variety of leading news organizations. A veteran international correspondent, Schidlovsky served four years as director of The Freedom Forum Asian Center in Hong Kong from 1993 to 1997, monitoring media changes during the transition of Hong Kong to Chinese rule and directing dozens of media training programs and conferences for journalists from more than 20 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.