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Scripps Howard Foundation Selects Five Merrill College Journalists to Roy W. Howard Fellowship Program
CINCINNATI – Five journalists who graduated from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism will receive hands-on investigative reporting experience working at major media outlets as the new class of Roy W. Howard Fellows. The yearlong fellowships are funded by the Scripps Howard Foundation.The nonprofit newsrooms hosting the fellows during the program are: NPR, Inside Climate News, Wisconsin Watch, the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and The Maine Monitor.
Kathy Best, Founding Director of UMD Howard Center, to Retire at End of December 2025
A message from Rafael Lorente, dean of the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism:It is with excitement for her future, sadness because we will miss her, and deep, deep gratitude for what she has meant to Merrill College that I relay to you that Howard Center Director Kathy Best will retire at the end of December.
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