The grant will support the news service in its mission to collaborate with New Jersey’s colleges and universities to mentor and train promising student journalists, including Rutgers SC&I JMS students, through reporting on state government, the Legislature, and politics for local media partners across the state.
“A lot of college graduates always talk about how they hardly use the skills they learned from their college courses, where I feel like I apply the skills I learned from Rutgers every day,” Boone said.
Holloway spoke with Emanuel, Chief Washington correspondent for Fox News Channel and co-anchor of FOX News Live, during a class for his Byrne Seminar “Cultivating Citizenship to Support Democracy.”
Ahmed, a Ph.D. Candidate at SC&I and Murphy, who holds a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, will join the LIS faculty in fall, 2024.
“Some of the communications strategies and techniques that I learned in the master’s program that I use often in my job today and in previous roles are stakeholder communication strategy, organizational change, management communications, and crisis communications,” Freeman said.
