Three in Journalism Department win
international fellowships
Emma Axt, a senior journalism and romance languages major from Edina, Minn., has won a Fulbright Fellowship to teach in Dijon, France for the 2008-09 academic year.
Hers is the third major international fellowship won by students and faculty in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications in the past month. Phylissa Mitchell, who is finishing a two-year visiting professorship, won a faculty Fulbright Fellowship to Ukraine, and Mary Childs ’08, a business journalism major and a native of Richmond, was one of 50 students nationwide to be named a Thomas J. Watson Fellow.
Childs will travel to France, the United Arab Emirates, Japan, China, Brazil and Morocco to explore the countries and their people through portraiture. Mitchell, a graduate of the University of Virginia and Washington and Lee’s law school, has extensive experience in print and broadcast news, including at the network level. In Ukraine she will teach a comparative course on free-press constitutional guarantees, as well as courses in broadcast writing and public affairs.
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| Toni Locy joins faculty |
Nationally known journalist
to teach legal reporting
Toni Locy, a veteran of 25 years covering the American justice system at all levels, has been named Washington and Lee’s first Donald W. Reynolds Professor of Legal Reporting.
Locy, currently a visiting professor and Shott Chair of Journalism at West Virginia University, will join W&L’s Department of Journalism and Mass Communications on July 1. She will teach courses in reporting on the civil and criminal justice systems. Some of those courses will be offered in collaboration with the university’s School of Law and its legal clinics.
Locy’s three-year position is made possible by a grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. The Reynolds Foundation began the department’s Business Journalism program with an endowment in 1999 that established the Donald W. Reynolds Chair in Business Journalism. The foundation’s gifts to Washington and Lee now total more than $4 million.
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Mary Childs wins Watson Fellowship
Mary Childs '08 has been named a Thomas J. Watson Fellow for 2008-2009. She is one of 50 students nationally to receive a Watson fellowship this year.
Administered in cooperation with 50 outstanding private colleges and universities throughout the United States, the Watson provides a grant of $25,000 to college graduates of unusual promise to engage in a year of independent, purposeful exploration and travel outside of the United States. Inaugurated by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation in 1968, the fellowship program has granted more than 2,500 Watson Fellowship awards, with stipends totaling more than $30 million.
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OnPoverty.org
Web site launched
OnPoverty.org, the Web site of the American Poverty Journalism Center, was launched March 29 after three years in development.
The site is the brainchild of Knight Professor of Journalism Ethics Ed Wasserman. It began in the spring of 2005 as a project for Wasserman's Journalism of Poverty class. The site provides professional journalists covering poverty and economic justice with links to print, broadcast and online news coverage, and opportunities for discussion and for sharing resources.
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