The University of Georgia will host a group of African journalists next month as part of an international journalism program.
The announcement Tuesday comes after UGA canceled a visit by Liberian journalist Wade C.L.Williams earlier this month over concerns that the campus community could be exposed to the Ebola virus. Williams was set to deliver the McGill Lecture on her experiences covering the Ebola crisis.
Liberia is one of the West African countries that has seen the largest number of Ebola cases.
None of the 14 journalists visiting the campus Nov. 3-4 are from countries currently affected by the Ebola outbreak, a press release from the university said. The group’s members, participating in the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists, are from French-speaking countries including Chad, Mali and Togo.
While in Georgia, the group will also visit with editors at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and CNN.
The traveling journalists will be in the United States for three weeks and are also expected to visit Washington, D.C., New Mexico and New York.
In addition to UGA, Syracuse University also canceled a planned visit by Washington Post photojournalist Michel du Cille, who was to participate in a journalism workshop there. Du Cille had been covering the Ebola outbreak in Liberia three weeks prior to the scheduled visit. The University of South Florida at St. Petersburg also canceled on a group of Murrow fellows from Africa, which the Poynter Institute later agreed to host.
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