OAKLAND, Calif., (December 11, 2001) - The Robert C. Maynard Institute of Journalism Education awards three inaugural Catherine L. Hughes Fellowships for their 2002 Cross-Media Journalism Program to be held at the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism January 5-12. Fellowship recipients are independent reporter/producer Heidi Chang of Honolulu, Hawaii, Sho-Ban News editor Lori Edmo-Suppah of Moscow, Idaho and former localbusiness.com senior correspondent, New York editor Maurice M. Krochmal.
"This scholarship is absolutely wonderful because Cathy Hughes is investing in people who will lead this industry once we move beyond the current economic cycle," said Mark N. Trahant, chairman of the Maynard Institute. "Journalism in all its forms needs a trained, diverse workforce who understand the technological as well as the societal changes at work in this century. We need people like each of these three scholarship winners."
Catherine L. Hughes is the founder and chairperson of the Washington, D. C. area-based Radio One, Inc., which is the largest African American run broadcast company in the United States.
The Maynard Institute's Cross-Media Journalism program offers storytelling strategies and technical training for seasoned professionals who are using multimedia platforms to deliver the news. The week-long program provides the framework for journalistic narrative in print, broadcast and the Internet across the "Fault Lines" of race, class, gender, generation and geography.
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