Newhouse School of Communications
Test Lab Journalism
April 19, 2009
Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications is one of 12 academic institutions chosen to participate in News21, a journalism student fellowship program created by the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism, which is sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The initiative seeks to adapt journalism education to the challenges of a struggling news industry.
Through the program, 11 Newhouse fellows, chosen from a competitive application process, will take an experimental journalism course in Spring 2009, and will then develop a special multimedia experience the following su
mmer.
Taught by Newhouse professors Steve Davis, Ken Harper and Bruce Strong, the course will investigate how technology has changed the lives of teenagers, how they are using it and what kind of opportunities there are to reach them and for them to reach out to others.
Participating Newhouse students, each of whom receive a $7,500 stipend, include:
• Adeniyi Amadou, a graduate student from Highspire, Penn.;
• Racquel Asa, a graduate student from Mount Vernon, N.Y.;
• Andrew Burton, a junior from Monument, Colo.;
• Mary Buttolph, a graduate student from Skaneateles, N.Y,;
• Brian Dawson, a sophomore from Mexico, N.Y.;
• Brad Horn, a graduate student from East Lansing, Mich.;
• Sabina Kuriakose, a senior from Bensalem, Penn.;
• Courtnee Lowe, a "long-distance fellow" from the University of Nebraska;
• Melissa Romero, a junior from Wilmington, Del.;
• Philip Tenser, a senior from Tuscon, Ariz.; and
• Jennifer Ward, a graduate student from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
In addition to Newhouse, participating schools include Arizona State University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of Nebraska, Lincoln; University of Southern California; University of Texas at Austin; University of Maryland; Northwestern University; Columbia University; University of Missouri; and University of California at Berkeley. The Joan Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government is also supported by the initiative.
For more information, contact Amy Falkner, associate dean and News21 project coordinator for the Newhouse School, at (315) 443-1909 or apfalkne@syr.edu.
