Pool election coverage in Timor-Leste

As training director of a multi-year ICFJ project in 2007, Schnellinger supervised a national survey and coverage plan for presidential and parliamentary elections with six…

Fighting Words: A manual for Arab and American journalists

This book, funded by the Carnegie Corporation, grew out of a conference that brought together Arab and American reporters and editors in 2005. They discussed…

Voter Voices and Virtual Newsroom in Egypt

For the 2005 presidential and parliamentary elections in Egypt, Schnellinger designed, wrote the proposal for and managed Voter Voices. This project brought together journalists from…

Building the media in Afghanistan

In 2002-04, as Country Director and Training Director for IWPR in Afghanistan, Schnellinger: Conceived, designed, and supervised startup of Pajhwok, first independent Afghan news agency, funded…

Coverage of Afghanistan’s first presidential elections

In the year of Afghanistan’s first presidential elections, Schnellinger created a team of Afghan journalism trainers, and led efforts to train dozens of journalists across…

Armenia and Georgia voter education

During national and local elections in 2002, Schnellinger organized and managed production of print supplements in Armenian on issues and platforms as a voter education…

Voter guide for Cambodian local elections

As managing editor, Schnellinger supervised the production and publication of a 24-page print supplement in Khmer, covering the issues and party positions in Cambodia’s local…

Free and Fair: A Journalist’s Guide to Improved Election Reporting

This handbook written by Schnellinger is a concise guide for journalists who are new to covering elections. It has been published in 10 languages. It…

China, Indonesia and other work

Schnellinger’s first work with journalists overseas was in China, in 1991-92, when she worked as a visiting editor at China Daily. Although the walls of…

Knight International Press Fellowship: Pacific Islands

As a Knight Fellow, Schnellinger conducted a multi-nation needs assessment survey of Pacific Island journalists that was the basis of subsequent project designs. She also…