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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