Nationwide Interns Funded by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism are Announced

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Seven students from universities across the country have been selected for 10-week business journalism internships at major publications in summer 2008.

The students were selected by the host publications in conjunction with the Reynolds Center, which funds the internships designed to help improve the quality of U.S. business journalism. This is the second year of the successful internship program.

The students, universities and host publications are:

Elizabeth Campbell, Northwestern University, The Boston Globe
Cassandra Crockett, Yale University, The Salt Lake Tribune
Kate Diaz, Northwestern University, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Amy Eagleburger, University of North Carolina, The Arizona Republic
Ashley Macha, Arizona State University, The Business Journal of Phoenix
Sonia Narang, University of California, Berkeley, San Jose Mercury News
Steven Overly, University of Maryland, The Plain Dealer in Cleveland.

“The success of our internship program initiated in summer 2007 underscored the relevance of bringing together quality students with publications that have shown a commitment to quality coverage of business,” said Andrew Leckey, Director of the Reynolds Center, which is based at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. “The students greatly benefit not only the host, but their own promising careers in business journalism.”

The interns placed at The Arizona Republic and The Business Journal of Phoenix will be shared with the Reynolds Center’s BusinessJournalism.org content development team.

In the summer of 2007, the Reynolds Center initiated its internship program, placing seven aspiring business reporters with newspapers for a 10-week internship funded by the Center.

The host papers in 2007 included the Houston Chronicle, the Detroit Free Press, The Oregonian, The Miami Herald, The Arizona Republic, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Business Journal of Phoenix.

For more information on this or other Reynolds Center programs, please contact Andrew Leckey, Director of Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, at 480-727-9186.