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Povich Center Names Late Philadelphia Sportswriter John Smallwood '87 Winner of Lacy-Smith Award
COLLEGE PARK -- John Smallwood '87, whose distinguished career as a reporter and sports columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer spanned three decades, has posthumously been named the winner of the 2021 Sam Lacy-Wendell Smith Award. The Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism announced Smallwood’s selection Tuesday.
Journalist Alison Burns ’93 to Join Merrill College Broadcast Faculty as Lecturer in Fall 2021
COLLEGE PARK -- Broadcast journalist Alison Burns ’93 will join the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism’s professional-track broadcast faculty as a lecturer starting in Fall 2021, Dean Lucy A. Dalglish announced.
Sports Writing in the Pandemic
This essay was an assignment in Mark Hyman's Sports and Society course