UC Berkeley to be base for national journalism education initiative |
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23 May 2005 ATTENTION: Higher education, political and media reporters and editors |
Contact:
Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations
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WHAT
An announcement in New York City by the Carnegie Corp., the Knight Foundation, and five top universities and journalism schools - including the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism -- of a multi-year, multi-million dollar initiative to revitalize and reform journalism in the United States.
The program will be based at UC Berkeley.
WHEN
11:30 a.m. EST, Thursday, May 26
WHERE
The Carnegie Corp. office, 437 Madison Ave., New York City. A call-in number will be available for reporters who cannot attend in person.
WHO
Scheduled to speak at the press conference are Orville Schell, dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, and Don McQuade, vice chancellor for university relations at UC Berkeley.
Also participating in the briefing will be representatives of Columbia University, the University of Southern California, Northwestern University, Harvard University, and the presidents of the Carnegie Corp. and the Knight Foundation.
DETAILS
To R.S.V.P. for the press conference or for more information, contact Craig Sender (craigs@tryloncommunications.com) or Catherine Carlson (catherinec@tryloncommunications.com) at (212) 725-2295 or (917) 626-7152 (the mobile phone number for media calls the day of the event).