SPRING 2012
ADVISER UPDATE
LETTER
Covering
big issues
N AT I O N A L
desk, she copy edited articles on
New York City and the region
including the scandal involving
Congressman Anthony Weiner
and New York’s passage of the gay
marriage act.
Her political science grounding was a huge help. She traveled
to the Netherlands for her senior
thesis about a political party there
and interviewed voters in Dutch,
her mother’s native language,
which she also studied at Columbia.
“When I read political stories
I had a sense of why I needed to
check factually,” she says.
Her experience covering the
business impact and legal battles
over Columbia University’s expansion into the Manhattanville
News Fund awards $432,000 in 2012 grants
The board of directors of
the Dow Jones News Fund has
approved $432,000 in grants and
operating expenses for its 2012
programs that include professional internships this summer for college students, digital training for
journalism professors and workshops for high school students.
The Fund, which has been
successfully promoting careers in
journalism for more than a half
century, expects to provide more
than 70 paid internships for college juniors, seniors and graduate
students in its news, sports, digital editing and business reporting
programs. To prepare students for
their summer jobs, it will operate
six Centers for Editing Excellence
on university campuses across
the country and a training center
in business reporting at the New
York headquarters of Dow Jones
& Co., a unit of News Corp.
The budget also includes
$42,000 for training programs in
digital media for faculty at historically black colleges and universities and at institutions with large
Hispanic enrollments. These
will again be held at Western
Kentucky University directed by
Dr. Pam Johnson and at the University of Texas at El Paso under
the direction of Dr. Zita Arocha. A
major aim of this effort is to provide journalism professors with
the skills they need to produce
more and better qualified applicants for News Fund internship
programs and professional news
organizations.
“At a time when news organi-
zations are facing serious financial and technological challenges,
our internship programs help
ensure that the next ge