Ali Schmitz, BS Telecommunication 2016, has been selected for the highly competitive Carnegie-Knight News21 voting rights investigative journalism fellowship program.

Schmitz is one of thirty-one journalism students from 18 universities selected to lead the national multimedia investigative reporting summer initiative.

This year’s project focuses on the political divide between citizens with significant voting power and those without, particularly in disadvantaged communities. The students participated in a spring seminar taught in person and via video conference by Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post and Cronkite’s Weil Family Professor of Journalism. This summer, they will work out of a state-of-the-art newsroom at the Cronkite School in downtown Phoenix and travel the country to report and produce their stories.

Headquartered at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, News21 was established by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to demonstrate that college journalism students, under the direction of top journalism professionals, can produce innovative and deeply reported multimedia projects for a national audience.

The UF College of Journalism and Communications is providing financial support for Schmitz’s participation in the program.

Posted: May 11, 2016
Category: College News
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