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Program News
- The journalism program is now blogging. We'll be analyzing and commenting on major issues in journalism, while also passing along resources and information from our grantees that might appeal to the broader journalism community. Bookmark McCormick Media Matters today.
- Want to learn how to start a broadcast program or improve what you're already doing? Then Camp STN is for you. The Foundation is funding a four-day summer training (August 6-9, 2007) at Columbia College for high school journalism or broadcast teachers who want to learn the ins and outs of how to create a compelling scholastic broadcast program while still managing the classroom, dealing with the administration and community, and maintaining your sanity. The best part is that tuition is free and participants will receive a $100/day stipend and continuing education credits. For more information or to apply, visit: http://www.hsbj.org/
- Faculty from the Media Management Center and Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University have announced the two newest McCormick Scholars: Jillian Crawford and Suneel Gupta. Crawford and Gupta, media management majors at Kellogg, will receive full tuition for three academic quarters. The Scholars Program was created by the Foundation in 2005 in recognition of our 50th year anniversary and we'll be granting 20 merit scholarships to Kellogg media management students and 60 merit scholarships to graduate students at the Medill School of Journalism during a 10-year period. Both of the 2007 recipients are off to a busy start this summer: Crawford will be working at the Disney Internet Group as an intern for international strategy and business development, while Gupta is giong to research made-for-mobile television and films at Sony Pictures in Los Angeles. For more information on the program: http://www.mediamanagementcenter.org/blogs/mike/2007/05/crawford-and-gupta-named-mccormick_07.html
- Confused about the rules for freedom of expression when it comes to digital and online expression in schools?
So were we at the McCormick Foundation and the newly opened Freedom Museum. It seems like many schools
are too, resulting in a plethora of misinformed policies that crackdown on free speech online. We convened a
group of "experts" that included lawyers, teachers, students and non-profit organizations to tackle the topic
of free speech in schools in the digital age in late October 2006. The result was a guidebook that discusses
social networking, internet filtering and school policy entitled:
"Free Speech 3.0: Student Expression in the
Digital Age."
- The McCormick Fellows have just launched a redesigned Fellows website at
www.mtfellows.org.
The Fellowship, in its 9th year and with a community that has now grown to more than 80 Fellows, has produced
numerous reports on diversity and other issues facing news organizations today. Read about the Fellowship,
a unique collaboration involving numerous leaders in the news industry, and see Fellows blog on today’s media issues.
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