Wednesday, May 02, 2007

13 named Knight-Wallace Fellows

The University of Michigan Knight-Wallace Fellows program has named 13 American journalists for the academic year 2007-2008. Additional international fellows will be designated in June.

While on leave from regular duties, Knight-Wallace Fellows pursue custom-designed sabbatical studies and attend special, twice-weekly seminars at Wallace House, a gift from newsman Mike Wallace and his wife Mary. The group named for the coming academic year is the 35th to be offered fellowships by the University of Michigan.

Each Knight-Wallace Fellow receives all academic fees and a stipend of $55,000, supported by gifts from foundations, news organizations and individuals committed to improving the quality of information reaching the public.

Professor Charles R. Eisendrath, who directs the program, is a former foreign correspondent for Time Magazine with broad experience in print, broadcast and online journalism.

U.S. fellows and their study projects are:

Jamaal Abdul-Alim, education reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Impact of Incentives on Student Achievement.

Carol Ann Alaimo, military writer, Arizona Daily Star, Challenges Facing the U.S. Military.

Kevin Clemens, editor at large and columnist, European Car Magazine, Solving America’s Automobile Related Transportation Energy Needs.

Tracy Davis, reporter, The Ann Arbor News, Globalization and World Ecology.

Steve Edwards, host, WBEZ (Chicago Public Radio), How Latino Immigrants Reshape American Politics, Economics and Culture.

Miles Harvey, freelance, The Missing Link between Men and Apes.

Colleen Kenney, reporter, Lincoln Journal Star, Applying Poetry Techniques to Narrative Writing.

Kate Linebaugh, reporter, The Wall Street Journal, Asia’s Wealth Gap: Capital, Consumption and Inequality.

Matthew Moyer, freelance photographer, Documentary Films and Building a Photo Agency.

Ronald Pereira Parsons, assistant managing editor and director of production, Yahoo! News, The Role of Automation and Technology in the Next Generation of Online Journalism.

Rochelle Riley, columnist, Detroit Free Press, How Multimedia Empires are Built.

Brad Schrade, reporter, The Tennessean, The Intersection of Money and Politics.

Sam Skolnik, reporter, Las Vegas Sun, The Rise of Problem Gambling in America.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What about the international fellows? Will be designated in june, huh? June of what year?

Harry Liggett said...

Jason Beaubien, Africa correspondent, National Public Radio, The Intersection of the First and Third Worlds

Hilary Bowden, duty editor, BBC, User Generated Content

Anthony Brooks, independent correspondent, National Public Radio, Urban Strategies to Deter Youth Violence

Oscar Raul Cardoso, international columnist, Clarin (Buenos Aires), Current American Foreign Policy

Gady Epstein,international projects reporter, The Baltimore Sun, The Anthropology of Dissent in Authoritarian and Former Authoritarian States

Stephen Fennessy,articles editor, Atlanta Magazine, The Ethics of Rationing Medicine

Yonette Joseph, copy editor/Style, The Washington Post, The Impact of Hispanic Immigration on Black and Small-Town America


Dong-Seok Kim, staff writer, The Chosun Daily News (Seoul), Korean Professional Sports in Crisis- Searching for Solutions

Baris Kuyucu, sports news editor and anchor, CNN Turk (Istanbul), Sports News and Program Management

Richard Lister, reporter, BBC, Should the EU Adopt the US Constitution?

James MacMillan, senior photographer and photo columnist, The Philadelphia Daily News, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Zack McMillin, sports writer, The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), Sports in Community Mythology

Tetsu Okazaki, staff writer, The Yomiuri Shimbun (Tokyo), The Influence of American Public Policy on Japan

Nilay Örnek, news editor, Milliyet (Istanbul), News and Media

Amy Resnick, editor in chief, The Bond Buyer, Politics, Taxation and Infrastructure

Linda Robertson, sports columnist, The Miami Herald, The Emergence of an Overweening Culture of Sports

Angela Shah, special writer, The Dallas Morning News, Street Corner Capitalism

Challen Stephens, education reporter, The Huntsville Times, Images of the American South

Taos Turner, Buenos Aires correspondent, Dow Jones Newswires, The Law and Ethics of Blogging

Kelly Zito, staff writer, San Francisco Chronicle, Water Quality and Scarcity Issues in Environmental Politics