The Wall Street Journal Announces Recipients of the Inaugural Robert L. Bartley Fellowships; Fellowship Provides Students and Early-Career Journalists the Opportunity to Work as Writers and Editors on the Journal's Editorial Page.

NEW YORK -- The Wall Street Journal today announced the recipients of the inaugural Robert L. Bartley Fellowships. The fellowship program consists of paid internships of up to six months and provides students and early-career journalists the opportunity to work as writers and editors on the Journal's editorial page in the U.S., Europe or Asia, as well as at the Far Eastern Economic Review. It is named in honor of the memory of the late editor of The Wall Street Journal, Robert L. Bartley, whose career at the Journal spanned nearly 40 years. The Bartley Fellowships are intended for young men and women whose views are broadly consistent with Bob's belief in economic and political liberty and who aspire to careers in journalism

"Bob set a standard throughout his career for passionate and principled journalism, and I know he would have enjoyed seeing his legacy recognized in this way." said Paul A. Gigot, editorial page editor, The Wall Street Journal.

The 2006 Bartley Fellows are:

--Abheek Bhattacharya--a sophomore at Yale University, where he writes for the Yale Herald and is a member of the Yale Political Union and the Yale Model U.N. Traveling Team. Mr. Bhattacharya interned at the Times of India last summer in his hometown of Mumbai. He will work on the Journal's editorial page in New York this summer.

--Elisabeth Eaves--a free-lance writer in Paris. Ms. Eaves has worked for Reuters in London and interned at Bloomberg News in New York as well as Seattle Magazine. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington and a master's of international affairs from Columbia University. Her hometown is Vancouver, British Columbia. Ms. Eaves will work in Paris on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal Europe.

--Will MacNamara--a graduate of Princeton University in 2005, Mr. MacNamara has spent the past year as the editorial assistant at the Far Eastern Economic Review under the auspices of the Princeton-in-Asia fellowship program. He was editor-in-chief of Troubadour Magazine, Princeton's journal of international and cultural affairs and he interned at The Antioch, a literary magazine. Mr. MacNamara holds a bachelor's degree in history and is from Dallas, Texas. He will work in Hong Kong on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal Asia.

--Peter Schroeder--a columnist for Notre Dame University's newspaper, The Observer, for which he has written articles on sports, random-chance poetry, hip-hop music and other pop-culture subjects. Mr. Schroeder is a member of Notre Dame University's Class of 2006 and is from Johnstown, Pa. He will intern in New York on the Journal's Leisure & Arts page.

--Andrea Tunarosa--a free-lance writer for America Economia magazine in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Ms. Tunarosa interned with Expansion, a business newspaper in Spain. She holds a bachelor's degree in business management from the Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala and a master's degree in journalism from San Pablo CEU University in Madrid. Ms. Tunarosa is a native of San Jose, Costa Rica. She will work on the editorial page in New York under the supervision of Mary Anastasia O'Grady, editor of the Americas Column.

The fellows were selected by senior members of the editorial board. The Journal received over 200 applications.

Mr. Bartley guided editorial opinion at The Wall Street Journal for more than 30 years and became editor emeritus in January 2003. After that time, he continued to write his weekly "Thinking Things Over" column--which appeared in the Journal and on OpinionJournal.com--until his death from cancer in December 2003.

Mr. Bartley achieved several honors during his long tenure at the Journal, including a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1980 and, shortly before his death, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In awarding that medal, President Bush cited Mr. Bartley as "one of the most influential journalists in American history."

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