Sri Lanka Development Journalist Forum (SDJF) is a national level organization committed to promote development, human rights, equality and inclusivity as well as peace and reconciliation through development communication organized ‘MediaCorps Fellowship’ which is a unique program that aims at incapacitating young journalists to produce stories that promote national dialogue and reconciliation in Sri Lanka.

It is a part of Media Empowerment for Democratic Sri Lanka (MEND) program implemented by Sri Lanka Development Journalist Forum in partnership with International Research and Exchange Board (IREX) and sponsored by USAID for the Communication, Media Studies and Mass Communication students of Eastern University – Trincomalee Campus, University of Jaffna and Sri Jayawardanepura University at its first phase.

Under this program, 10 students from Department of Media Studies selected and given a 6-day residential training from 2nd of January to 7th of January 2020 and provided facilities to work in pairs with another similar student from a completely different ethnicity/faith background to produce multimedia stories of an issue faced by the other’s community as well as producing one story together on an issue common to both communities.

Further, MediaCorps Fellowship Program planned the fellow members to learn and break cultural barriers when reporting while they accommodate them in different communities and cultures.