Welcome
Welcome from the Director
We throw our arms open to applicants with no professional experience. All we require is an undergraduate degree in any field, GRE evidence of grad school ability and the personal aspiration to perform good journalism. We'll cover your costs and help you find a job after the 12-month program. Instead of a research thesis, you'll produce a professional project that will impress employers. We are multicultural and digitally modern. You'll never find a portal more wide open into community journalism.
Chris Waddle
Director
The Knight Community Journalism Fellows
Meet the Director
Welcome from Brandt Ayers
A door has opened with this Web site. When I began my career in the hot-type era, the Internet was as unimaginable as Dick Tracy's wrist radio. But the digital revolution should not threaten any of us who still believe that the message (good journalism) is more important than the medium that delivers it. Where the door leads is limited only by the imagination of you who enter here.
H. Brandt Ayers
Chairman and Publisher
The Anniston Star
Welcome to community journalism at its best.
The partnership among The University of Alabama, the Anniston Star, and the Knight Foundation has created a remarkable entry level leadership program, unique in that it ends with a master's degree offered on the campus of a "teaching newspaper."
Surrounding this campus and its students will be all the resources of the University and its highly regarded College of Communication and Information Sciences, among the nation's leaders in innovative approaches to teaching, research, and production. The developmental work of faculty and students will form the nucleus of a national conversation about the practice of journalism and its place in the community.
Loy Singleton
Dean, College of Communication & Information Sciences
The University of Alabama
We throw our arms open to applicants with no professional experience. All we require is an undergraduate degree in any field, GRE evidence of grad school ability and the personal aspiration to perform good journalism. We'll cover your costs and help you find a job after the 12-month program. Instead of a research thesis, you'll produce a professional project that will impress employers. We are multicultural and digitally modern. You'll never find a portal more wide open into community journalism.
Chris Waddle
Director
The Knight Community Journalism Fellows
Meet the Director
Welcome from Brandt Ayers
A door has opened with this Web site. When I began my career in the hot-type era, the Internet was as unimaginable as Dick Tracy's wrist radio. But the digital revolution should not threaten any of us who still believe that the message (good journalism) is more important than the medium that delivers it. Where the door leads is limited only by the imagination of you who enter here.
H. Brandt Ayers
Chairman and Publisher
The Anniston Star
Welcome to community journalism at its best.
The partnership among The University of Alabama, the Anniston Star, and the Knight Foundation has created a remarkable entry level leadership program, unique in that it ends with a master's degree offered on the campus of a "teaching newspaper."
Surrounding this campus and its students will be all the resources of the University and its highly regarded College of Communication and Information Sciences, among the nation's leaders in innovative approaches to teaching, research, and production. The developmental work of faculty and students will form the nucleus of a national conversation about the practice of journalism and its place in the community.
Loy Singleton
Dean, College of Communication & Information Sciences
The University of Alabama
