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JOY ELLIOTT has had more
than 20 years of experience in reporting and copy-editing general and
financial local and international news.
She reported and edited international, national and regional news for Reuters Inc. in its New York headquarters and its United Nations bureau, covering the General Assembly and the Security Council in the Fall and filling in as vacation relief at other times. She covered initiatives in socioeconomic development, as well as geopolitical issues
As a freelance international correspondent,
she did cutting-edge reporting for and editing at UN special conferences
in Panama
City, Panama (Reuters), Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil (Earth Times), Istanbul,
Turkey, Dakar,
Senegal, and Rome, Italy (the last three for Women's Feature Service,
headquartered in Delhi, India). She also reported on population issues
across Thailand and covered wine tasting, lifestyle developments and travel
for Reuters and for American magazines. She is a volunteer producer and
crew member for a media watch program on Manhattan public access television.
During one of her fellowships, she was the media specialist
helping to arrange international coverage for the 1994 world population
conference in Cairo,
Egypt.
As a "cub reporter" at the Associated Press,
she reported on major national institutions in Washington before moving
to AP news desks in Philadelphia and New York.
She holds a Master of Arts in Media Studies from the New School University, New York City, and a Bachelor of Science degree (Caribbean Scholar) from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She also studied French at the University of Poitiers' Institut de Touraine in Tours, France, and the University of Paris/Sorbonne, France.
Among her awards was an 18-month University of Michigan
fellowship to do media relations at the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA) in New York, Dakar and Cairo. She was among 100 "women of
achievement" awarded Leadership America fellowships in 1989 for intensive
professional development and she won a National Endowment for the Humanities
summer fellowship in 1981 to study philosophy at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.