The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and Chicago’s Robert R. McCormick Foundation are pioneering innovative programs to bolster and support local news in a manner that is making a difference in the Land of Lincoln and beyond.
They proved it again in recent days with the announcement that the McCormick Foundation is awarding a $3.6 million, three-year grant to the Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern to expand the university’s work to strengthen local news and scholastic journalism in Illinois.
They should be commended for their leadership and continued investment of resources, grants and wisdom in vital local and state journalism and research advanced by the Medill Local News Initiative.
In the first year of work by the Medill Illinois News Bureau, in partnership with Capitol News Illinois, our twenty-one inaugural Statehouse Fellows so far have produced more than fifty stories (and added videos) for Capitol News Illinois to enhance coverage of Illinois state government, local news and the Illinois General Assembly in news outlets around the state.
Empowering the Next Generation of Journalists
These brilliant students are diligent, tireless and creative young reporters dedicated to our mission of substantively helping bolster coverage of — and attention to — local and state news at a critical time of transformation in the news business. Medill and McCormick can be proud of the impactful work they are doing — and congratulations to the MSJ fellows graduating in the coming days.
See you on the trail!
–Storer Rowley
Storer Rowley with journalism students
To see their work at Capitol News Illinois, click here:
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