Kate Selig Chosen for FASPE Ethics Fellowship

Kate Selig with Jack Howard-Potter receiving the OPC Foundation Irene Corbally Kuhn Scholar Award in 2024 at the Ford Foundation.

Kate Selig, an OPC Foundation Scholar Award Winner ‘24 has been selected as a reporting fellow for the 2025 Journalism Program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE).

Now in its fifteenth year of operation, FASPE annually grants 80-90 Fellowships to graduate students and early-career professionals in the fields of Journalism, Business, Clergy, Design & Technology, Law, and Medicine. Fellows participate in a two-week program in Germany and Poland, which uses the conduct of professionals in Nazi-occupied Europe as an initial framework for approaching ethical responsibility in the professions today.

The Journalism Program will be led by Peter Frey, Journalist and Former Editor-in-Chief of ZDF, and Andie Tucher, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of Journalism and Director of the Ph.D. Program at Columbia Journalism School.

Kate Selig is a reporting fellow on the National desk at The New York Times, where she covers breaking news with a focus on extreme weather and climate. She has also reported on climate change for The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and the San Francisco Chronicle. She graduated from Stanford with a degree in philosophy and served as editor in chief of the student newspaper.

Thinking ahead to the upcoming fellowship trip, Selig says, “FASPE offers a rare opportunity to engage deeply with journalism ethics, an area often sidelined in the day-to-day rush of reporting. Having studied philosophy in college and faced ethical challenges in my own work, I look forward to thoughtful discussions with peers and faculty on how we should approach these issues in journalism.”

FASPE maintains long-term relationships with its fellows in order to sustain a commitment to ethical behavior and to provide a forum for continued dialogue. To date, FASPE has more than 900 alumni.

To learn more about FASPE and its programs, visit www.faspe-ethics.org