UM: Journalism

The New York Times reports that newspaper professionals no longer dominate the nation’s top journalism fellowship programs. The article quotes Charles Eisendrath, director of the Knight-Wallace Fellows at UM: “People are afraid that if they leave, at a time when newspapers are laying people off, their jobs won’t be waiting when they come back – and they’re right to think that. The fall-off in newspaper applicants is disproportionately from the big corporations, the big and medium-sized papers, where most of the layoffs have been. The smaller ones are still enthusiastic contributors to fellowship programs.” [Source]