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The 2007 Douglas Gageby 'Irish Times' Fellowship

The 2007 Douglas Gageby Irish Times Fellowship has been awarded to Ruadhán Mac Cormaic for his project "Changing Places: Migration and the Reinvention of Ireland".

Based in Dublin, Mac Cormaic has previously worked for the European Parliament, RTÉ and The Irish Times. He has also worked in Romania for the French branch of the humanitarian organisation Service Civil International (SCI) and for Trinity News, of which he was editor in 2000-2001.

He was joint winner of the 2006 Justice Media Award and named editor of the year in the 2001 National Student Media Awards.

From Dublin, Ruadhán Mac Cormaic (25) studied at Coláiste Eoin, Booterstown; Institut d'Études Politiques, Univirsité de Strasbourg; Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge University.

The Douglas Gageby Irish Times Fellowship was established in 2005 by The Irish Times Trust to honour the memory of Douglas Gageby, editor of The Irish Times from 1963 to 1974 and from 1977 to 1986. Douglas Gageby died in June, 2004.

The fellowship, which is awarded annually, is open to print journalists at an early stage of their career. It was awarded in 2006 to Jordan-based journalist, Mary Fitzgerald, for her project and subsequent Irish Times weekly series: "Under the Crescent - The Faces of Islam" (see www.ireland.com).

The members of the judging panel were: Dr Ruth Barrington (chairwoman), governor of The Irish Times Trust and chief executive of the Health Research Board; Geraldine Kennedy, editor of The Irish Times; Patrick Gageby SC; and Patrick Smyth, foreign editor of The Irish Times. The administrator of the fellowship is Seán Hogan, the paper's former Letters and Obituaries Editor.

Details of the 2008 fellowship will be announced in September.