Winner of 2011 Wall Street Journal Asia Fellowship Announced

6/13/2011 9:00 PM EST

Dow Jones & Company
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Winner of 2011 Wall Street Journal Asia Fellowship Announced

NEW YORK, 2011-06-14 03:00 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Wall Street Journal
announced today the winner of the 2011 Wall Street Journal Asia Fellowship is
Warangkana Chomchuen, a television producer from Chiang Rai in northern
Thailand. 

The fellowship provides promising mid-career journalists from Asia the
opportunity to participate in the three-semester master of arts program in the
Business and Economic Reporting at New York University's Arthur L. Carter
Journalism Institute. In its eighth year, the fellowship is supported by the
Dow Jones Foundation and NYU. 

Ms. Chomchuen has worked as a production coordinator in the Bangkok bureau of
NBC News since 2007. While with NBC News, Ms. Chomchuen, who aspires to be a
cross-platform business journalist, has produced major news stories and a
variety of features from the field for NBC's Nightly News, the Today Show and
MSNBC.com. Among other high-profile assignments, she was involved in the live
broadcast of the Today Show's 'Where in the World is Matt Lauer' in Laos in
2008; CNBC's coverage of the G20 summit 2010 in Seoul; and the Today Show's
interview with Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon, Myanmar, in 2011. 

Ms. Chomchuen graduated with honors in English from Chulalongkorn University
and won a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism from 2006 to 2007. 

The Wall Street Journal fellowship covers tuition and fees for two of the three
semesters of the program, as well as a stipend to cover travel to New York and
other expenses. 

Previous fellows have gone on to staff positions covering business and
economics at The Wall Street Journal and other major news organizations in the
U.S. and Asia. 

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