University announces new
Knight-Wallace Fellows
Conference
celebrates
Ann Arbor
and Detroit
innovators
Fellows consist of
12 U.S. and seven
International
journalists
By KAELA THEUT
Daily News Editor
The University of Michigan has
announced its 44th class of Knight-
Wallace Journalism Fellows. The
new group consists of 12 U.S. and
seven international journalists.
Fellows spend a year living in the
University’s Wallace House, where
they participate in collaborative
seminars and workshops, while
simultaneously
working
on
individual courses of study. The
group engages with scholars from
all fields, as well as visiting other
journalists and creative minds.
The Wallace House is a gift from
the late Mike Wallace, best known
for his work on the CBS program
“60 Minutes,” and his wife Mary
Wallace. Fellows receive a stipend
of $70,000 for the academic year,
and the entire program is funded
by news organizations, foundations
and individuals such as Jeff Fager,
the executive producer of 60
Minutes, dedicated to improving
journalistic quality.
Wallace House Director Lynette
Clemetson,
a
former
Knight-
Wallace Fellow, explained how the
Fellows contribute to the overall
richness of the University through
their facilitation of ideas and
engagement with various faculty
members.
“When the Fellows come here,
they’re really participating in the
University life for a year,” she said.
“The ability to have mid-career
journalists in classes bringing their
work experiences, their travel
experiences, their life experiences
into the courses they’re taking at the
University — we hear from students
and professors all the time that they
add such richness to discussions
and interactions in the class.”
Over the past year, Fellows have
participated in a wide spectrum
of University events, most notably
in a series of panels on subjects
ranging from how to maintain
privacy in investigative journalism,
to reporting during the era of the
Trump administration.
One of the new Fellows, Jennifer
Guerra, a Senior Reporter for
Michigan Radio, said she recently
completed a project called State of
Opportunity that examined how
kids from low-income families
can be successful in areas such as
networking and education.
“As one of the two main
reporters on the project, I filed
weekly radio stories on everything
from infant health to foster care to
first generation college students,
and twice a year produced hour-
long documentaries on topics such
as networking, education and race,”
she said.
Guerra
emphasized
how
excited she is to join the next class
of Fellows, and use her role as a
journalist to connect communities
across the nation and advance civil
discourse.
“I have been locked in on the
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UM3Detroit aims to
unite all University
campuses with Detroit
By EDUARDO BATISTA
Daily Staff Reporter
On Wednesday, the Ross School
of Business hosted the um3detroit
conference, a series of events that
brought together faculty, researchers
and several local leaders in a packed
auditorium to discuss social issues
impacting the city of Detroit.
The event featured well-known
local leaders such as Daniel Little,
chancellor of the University of
Michigan
–
Dearborn,
Detroit
Mayor Mike Duggan and Stephen
Henderson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist.
University
President
Mark
Schlissel
opened
the
event
by
explaining the purpose of the event
was to bring together the wide array
of organizations and community
members doing research and work
focused in Detroit.
“Well, I have come to realize that
a very large number of Michigan
faculty and many students are doing
projects — engaged research, service
projects,
fundamental
research
— trying to both understand the
challenges that are facing Detroit and
help, to actually make a difference,”
he said. “I wanted to get together
the breadth of our community doing
Detroit-focused research to talk
to one another, to tell each other
what we are doing, to try to provoke
collaborations, to give the community
a sense of the breadth and scale
in the ways we are engaging with
Michigan’s most important city.”
DETROIT
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