News Corp Launches the Marie Colvin Fellowship at the Stony Brook University School of Journalism
June 27 2016 - 09:35AM
Business Wire
Inaugural fellow will travel to Mexico City to work with The
Wall Street Journal
News Corp announced today the launch of a first-of-its-kind
fellowship in honor of fallen Sunday Times war correspondent
Colvin.
The Marie Colvin Fellowship, sponsored by News Corp, will
support a 10-week reporting assignment with The Wall Street Journal
for a graduating senior in Stony Brook University’s School of
Journalism. The first recipient of the award is Hanaa’ Tameez, 21,
who will travel to Mexico City to work as an intern in the
Journal’s bureau following her 2016 graduation from SBU.
“We are so proud to sponsor this fellowship, named after a
journalist who herself embodied the very best of this great and
essential profession," said Keisha Smith-Jeremie, Chief Human
Resources Officer for News Corp. "Support for a free press is one
of the pillars of News Corp's philanthropy, because we seek to
protect and defend the ability of journalists to fulfill their
vital function around the world."
"The Wall Street Journal is pleased to offer Stony Brook
students hands-on experience to match the high level of instruction
they've received on campus," said Michelle LaRoche, WSJ's
development editor. "We look forward to working with these
journalists as they embark on an exciting and meaningful career in
the profession."
The Marie Colvin Fellowship honors the journalistic ideals of
acclaimed international correspondent Marie Colvin, who was killed
in 2012 while covering the conflict in Syria for the Sunday Times
of London, the weekly paper owned by News Corp. During the nearly
two decades she worked at The Times, she covered thousands of
stories, traversing the globe from Chechnya to Sri Lanka to the
Middle East.
Shortly after Marie’s tragic death, Stony Brook University, with
the support of the Colvin family, established the Marie Colvin
Center for International Reporting to nurture and train the next
generation of international reporters. Marie Colvin was a Long
Island native who grew up approximately 30 miles from the
university. She was known for her moving accounts of innocent
civilians caught in the tide of war, and for her courage, tenacity
and indefatigable commitment to truth.
"We are dedicated to preserving Marie Colvin’s legacy and
nurturing in the next generation of journalists the kind of
tenacity and commitment to ground truth that Marie embodied,” said
Stony Brook School of Journalism Dean Howard Schneider. "This award
helps make that possible."
The fellowship will give one outstanding graduating senior or
master’s student the opportunity to work at one of the Journal’s
international bureaus. A faculty selection committee chose
finalists for the award, and Journal editors selected the
winner.
Hanaa’ Tameez, the inaugural recipient of the award, was a
journalism and Spanish double major at Stony Brook University, and
the former editor of the campus newspaper
The Statesman. She said she hopes to pursue a career in
investigative reporting or documentary production. “I don't
think I could have asked for a better result after graduation,” she
said about the award.
Hanaa’ will work both independently and as part of a team
alongside beat reporters and editors, covering news events,
producing stories for print and online in real time, and helping to
produce online graphics and, on occasion, video elements. There
will be opportunities to undertake broader enterprise reporting
projects.
In 2013, Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corp, made a
$50,000 gift to Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism to
further the development of the Marie Colvin Center for
International Reporting through the News Corporation Foundation.
Mr. Murdoch’s donation helped to expand the Marie Colvin Center’s
overseas reporting program, Journalism Without Walls, which
among other places has sent student journalists to Russia, Cuba,
China, Kenya and Turkey.
About the Marie Colvin Center for International
Reporting
The mission of the Marie Colvin Center for International
Reporting is to nurture and grow the next generation of
international reporters, to raise public awareness about the need
for robust international coverage through the Marie Colvin
Distinguished Lecture Series, and to cement Colvin’s legacy by
rewarding tenacious overseas reporting with a
journalist-in-residence fellowship. For more, visit:
http://www.mariecolvincenter.org/
About News Corp
News Corp (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) is a global,
diversified media and information services company focused on
creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to
consumers throughout the world. The company comprises businesses
across a range of media, including: news and information services,
book publishing, digital real estate services, and cable network
programming and pay-TV distribution in Australia. Headquartered in
New York, the activities of News Corp are conducted primarily in
the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. More
information: http://www.newscorp.com.
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News Corp Corporate CommunicationsIlana Ozernoy,
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Communications & MarketingAlida AlmonteOffice:
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