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inda Shockley has been named managing
director of the Dow Jones News Fund. The
announcement was made Aug. 25 by Richard
J. Levine , News Fund president.
Since April, Shockley has led the News
Fund in her capacity as deputy director, a
position she assumed in 1992, four years
after joining the News Fund as assistant to
the director. Shockley’s experience and her
commitment to the News Fund’s mission of
promoting journalism careers among students
and helping diversify the nation’s newsrooms
will be invaluable in her new role.
While her background is in print journalism,
Shockley has acquired a broad range of digital skills, which she has employed to develop
and oversee the website, produce the annual
report, digitize internal operations and make
social media an important part of the News
Fund’s work and communications. These
skills will enable her to strengthen and expand the News Fund’s digital programs while
maintaining quality instruction in the basics of
journalism — accurate and unbiased reporting, clear and compelling writing and superb
copy editing.
During her quarter century with the News
Fund, Shockley’s primary responsibilities
included managing the support of summer
high school journalism workshops to promote
diversity and the business reporting internship
program since its inception in 1995. She has
also been responsible for Adviser Update, the
quarterly newspaper for high school media
teachers, alumni relations and the National
High School Journalism Teacher of the Year
program
Before joining the News Fund, Shockley
spent more than 12 years as an education
reporter, news editor, bureau chief, columnist
and city editor at what was then Gannett Suburban Newspapers in Westchester County,
N.Y.
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