Free Master’s Degree in Community News Offered
Chris Waddle, director of the Knight Community Journalism Fellow, wants everyone to know about an upcoming conference and the new Master’s in Community Journalism program that will be taught by University of Alabama professors at the Anniston Star in Anniston, Alabama.
Here is the good news:
The partners have covered the cost of tuition and fees for the 12-month program. For out-of-state students (including international), this is approximately a $15,000 value.
Students will also receive a monthly stipend of $1,250 per month for 12 months to pay for food and lodging.
Here is an intro from the Com J website:
A Career in Community Journalism
Most journalists work in community media, but most Americans think of journalism as national media, which they increasingly dislike. The profession needs more people who know and care about how communities work and why they sometimes fail. Skillful, authoritative news coverage and courageous, well-informed editorial leadership must be grounded in knowledge of local issues. That is what Com-J will bring–a new way of developing journalism leadership through a master’s degree program inside a “teaching newspaper”…
Here is what Waddle wrote for the PJNet:
We are holding a National Conference on Community Journalism in Anniston, Feb. 8-9, with a remarkable assembly of speakers and panelists in a collegial journalism setting.
While at the conference, teachers and practitioners of journalism will hear about the Teaching Newspaper’s degree program starting in the next academic year. We hope they want to recommend students to us.
To register for the conference, to learn more about the program and to peek inside the Teaching Newspaper, please go to www.comj.ua.edu or call the program in Anniston, 256-235-3590.
I will be attending the conference and probably will be a speaker on one of the panels.
