The National Press Foundation has named 20 journalists to the 2007-2008 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowships, a program designed to help Washington-based journalists increase their ability to report on stories of importance, particularly to regional and local audiences. Named as 2007-2008 Fellows are:
- Halimah Abdullah, McClatchy Newspapers
- Jodi Breisler, Capitol News Connection
- Matthew Brown, The Baltimore Sun
- Theresa Cook, ABC News
- Cullen Dirner, ABC News
- Josh Drobnyk, The (Allentown) Morning Call
- Ben Evans, Associated Press
- Lydia Gensheimer, Congressional Quarterly
- Ben Goad, The Press-Enterprise
- Mary Lynn Jones, Presstime
- Eun Kim, Gannett News Service
- Sunlen Miller, ABC News
- Jacqueline Policastro, Lilly Broadcasting
- Catharine Richert, Congressional Quarterly
- Martine Rodriguez, C-SPAN
- Aaron Sadler, Stevens Media
- Jerome Sherman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press
- Lena Vargas, NBC 25
- Mark Weiner, Syracuse Post-Standard
The Paul Miller Fellows meet monthly from September through June to visit federal agencies, talk with experts and veteran reporters and discuss the intricacies of the federal government and how to report on it.
Along with being an orientation to the nation's capital, a Paul Miller Fellowship has become a “rite of passage” for journalists coming to Washington and membership in a group of elite journalists.
"My first day in D.C., my training went like this, 'There's your desk.' I can't imagine how I would have survived this town without this program."
- Barb Barrett, The News & Observer (Raleigh), 2006-2007 Paul Miller Fellow
The Paul Miller Fellowships were founded by the Freedom Forum in September 1986 to honor the former chairman and president of both Gannett and the Associated Press. The Freedom Forum turned over the Paul Miller program to the National Press Foundation in 2000. The program is underwritten by the Gannett Foundation, the Freedom Forum, the Triad Foundation, and the NPF Program Fund.
For more information, visit www.nationalpress.org, or contact Philip Javellana, at programs@nationalpress.org or 202-663-7285. The National Press Foundation is a nonprofit, non-partisan educational foundation located in the center of Washington, D.C.
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