Governance and elections in Iraq

Between June 2009 and August 2012, Schnellinger worked on three projects in Iraq related to elections and governance. In Erbil, Baghdad and Basra in 2012,…

Upgrades at Pajhwok Afghan News

After surviving its first five years, Pajhwok Afghan News was in need of a makeover. Schnellinger and Willard designed, obtained $3.5 million in funding for…

ChattahoocheeNow: A hyperlocal site for national forest

Schnellinger designed, launched, administered and produced content for the news website ChattahoocheeNow, with the aim of reaching the 2 million annual visitors to the Chattachoochee…

Baraka Photos: Seeing near and far

From 2007 through 2010, Schnellinger ran a photography business that produced fine art, journalistic and memoir photography from North Georgia and international locales. She also…

Pool election coverage in Timor-Leste

As training director of a multi-year ICFJ project in 2007, Schnellinger supervised a national survey and coverage plan for presidential and parliamentary elections with six…

Fighting Words: A manual for Arab and American journalists

This book, funded by the Carnegie Corporation, grew out of a conference that brought together Arab and American reporters and editors in 2005. They discussed…

Voter Voices and Virtual Newsroom in Egypt

For the 2005 presidential and parliamentary elections in Egypt, Schnellinger designed, wrote the proposal for and managed Voter Voices. This project brought together journalists from…

Building the media in Afghanistan

In 2002-04, as Country Director and Training Director for IWPR in Afghanistan, Schnellinger: Conceived, designed, and supervised startup of Pajhwok, first independent Afghan news agency, funded…

Coverage of Afghanistan’s first presidential elections

In the year of Afghanistan’s first presidential elections, Schnellinger created a team of Afghan journalism trainers, and led efforts to train dozens of journalists across…

Armenia and Georgia voter education

During national and local elections in 2002, Schnellinger organized and managed production of print supplements in Armenian on issues and platforms as a voter education…