SPRING 2011
Adviser Update
Page 5A
The cost of a free press
By RICHARD J. LEVINE
n mid-winter, amid the spreadIGwen
ing Arab revolt, moderator
Ifill closed her “Washington
Daniel Pearl, Wall Street Journal
reporter killed in Pakistan in 2002.
Richard J. Levine
is president of the board of directors of the Dow Jones Newspaper
Fund, Inc. In five decades with Dow
Jones & Co., he has served as vice
president for news and staff development, executive editor of Dow
Jones Newswires, vice president
of information services, editorial
director of electronic publishing
and Washington correspondent
and columnist for The Wall Street
Journal. He holds a B.S. from
Cornell University and an M.S. from
the Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism. E-mail: [email protected].
tance of a free and vibrant press
should be grateful.
In the aftermath of the brutal
murder of Wall Street Journal
correspondent Danny Pearl in
Pakistan in 2002, I was part of a
small group of Dow Jones news
executives assembled to consider
what we could do to enhance the
security of our reporters on dangerous assignments. After several
meetings, we adopted some simple, sensible rules. But we also
recognized that there were limits
on what we could do.
The reality is the cost of a free
press, like the price of freedom
itself, is high.
industry. We are beginning to see
just that.”
The Fund will again operate
six Centers for Editing Excellence
and a business reporting training
center. It will also provide more
than 80 internships to college
juniors, seniors and graduate
students in its news, multimedia, sports editing and business
reporting programs.
In addition, Adviser Update,
the Fund’s quarterly newspaper
on teaching scholastic journalism,
will continue to be distributed
free to more than 5,000 high
school journalism teachers, college professors and media professionals.
COLLEGE PROGRAMS $225,000
News Editing Intern Program
will train college students to work
as news, sports and multimedia
editors during the summer of
2011. Each will attend a Center
for Editing Excellence prior to the
internship. The Fund allocated
money to cover scholarships for
those interns returning to school,
intern travel and operating costs.
The news editing training
centers are at Temple University,
Philadelphia, directed by Dr.
Edward Trayes; University of
Texas at Austin, directed by S.
Griffin Singer; University of Missouri, Columbia, directed by
See GRANTS on page 9A
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operating expenses for 2011 programs to provide internships for
college students and multimedia
training for professors. High
school students and journalism
teachers will also benefit from the
funding.
The budget includes $40,000
for multimedia training programs
for professors from Hispanic-serv-
ing and historically black colleges
and universities at the University
of Texas El Paso, directed by Dr.
Zita Arocha, and at Western Kentucky University, directed by Dr.
Pam Johnson.
Rich Holden, executive director of the Fund, said, “One of the
objectives of training the professors is to produce more qualified
applicants from their schools for
our internship programs and better prepared professionals for our
black
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the Dow Jones News Fund
approved $470,000 in grants and
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News Fund awards $470,000 in 2011 grants
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people instantly – the Internet,
social media, mobile phones, satellite broadcasting systems and
24-hour news channels – are contributing to the toll.
“Technology has made the
life of journalists so much easier
and yet so much more difficult,”
writes Riz Khan of Al Jazeera
English television in his preface
to CPJ’s “Attacks on the Press in
2010,” a 431-page compendium.
“Reporting is hard to manipulate
w [