Philip Merrill College of Journalism | University of Maryland

College of Journalism News Releases 1996-1999

Applicants sought for the Howard Simons Fellowship.
Hearst prizes awarded to Kelly Cramer and Kayce T. Ataiyero.
Publisher and CEO of The Baltimore Sun Company Waller to be keynote speaker at commencement.
Fellowship opportunities increase for College of Journalism graduate students.
Professor Marjorie Ferguson dies at age 69.
Flagship Channel moving to College of Journalism.
Mary Louise Schumacher, a 1999 alumna of the College of Journalism, wins SPJ's national top-student award.
Best-ever freshman class begins first semester at College of Journalism.
Veteran journalists Christopher Hanson and Sue Kopen Katcef join faculty.
Kathryn Quigley of the Orlando Sentinel named the newest Casey Journalism Fellow.
Search under way for Dean Cleghorn's successor.
Tom Kunkel to succeed Howard Bray as College's Knight Center director.
Will Sutton Jr., a member of the College's Board of Visitors, elected president of the National Association of Black Journalists.
Jerry Ceppos, a 1969 alumnus of the College and a member of its Board of Visitors, named Knight Ridder's top news executive.
Prof. Maurine Beasley receives national 'Senior Scholar Award' on the heels of being named a Fulbright Scholar.
Dean Reese Cleghorn to step down; plans to continue to teach and write.
New curriculum taking shape in the College of Journalism; admissions standards rise.
Gene Roberts directing series of reports on newspapers, to be published in AJR.
Haynes Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning political correspondent, author and PBS commentator, fills Maryland's Knight Chair in Journalism.
Maryland alumni Jane Healy, managing editor of the Orlando Sentinel, and Jerry Ceppos, executive editor and senior vice president of the San Jose Mercury News, named to College of Journalism's national Board of Visitors.
Knight Chair Prof. Hodding Carter III to be President of Knight Foundation.
Dr. Lee Thornton, CNN senior producer and former CBS-TV White House correspondent, appointed professor and Richard Eaton Chair in Broadcast Journalism, an added faculty position that will enhance the Broadcast News sequence; new broadcast newsroom opens at College for student radio and TV programming.
Professor Ben Holman wins Barry Bingham Sr. Fellowship, given by National Conference of Editorial Writers for achievement in recruiting minority students and preparing them for journalism careers.
National Association of Black Journalists relocates headquarters from Reston to University of Maryland campus.