John Madigan didn’t work for
The Michigan Daily when he was
at the University of Michigan. He
studied business and didn’t have
any plans to go into the field of
journalism. He began a career in
finance and investment banking
after graduation, and one of his
clients was The Chicago Tribune.
After a couple years of working with
the company, they hired him as a
CFO in 1975. As he rose through the
ranks of The Tribune, he eventually
became CEO and chairman of the
Tribune Company.
“I came to greatly appreciate
what the news people do and how
hard it is to turn out a story or a
product that’s completely accurate
and
interesting.
It’s
not
easy,”
Madigan told me when I spoke to
him on the phone last week.
Madigan says that’s a big part
of why he and his wife, Holly,
decided to give back to The Daily.
In 2015, they donated the funds
to support the renovation of The
Daily’s newsroom and endowed a
need-based scholarship for Daily
staff. And now, they’ve given us
an
incredibly
generous
gift
of
more than $300,000 to devote to
professional development, building
a diverse newsroom and creating a
sustainable revenue model for the
paper.
“I’m really proud to have run a
major news organization and the
least I can do is just give back so
other people have an opportunity
to develop themselves so that they
could do the same someday,” he said.
The gift will be known as the
Lipinski Journalism Fund, named by
the Madigans in honor of Michigan
Daily alum Ann Marie Lipinski,
former
editor
of
The
Chicago
Tribune. As Madigan told me, he and
Lipinski became “fast friends” after
meeting while they both worked at
The Tribune — they bonded over
their shared love for the University.
He said it was Lipinski who helped
steward him into the world of
journalism.
“I needed to learn a lot,” he said.
“One of the people that really helped
me along the way was Ann Marie
Lipinski. That’s part of the reason
that Holly and I want to honor her
with this program.”
Lipinski, who currently works
as the curator of the prestigious
Neiman Foundation for Journalism,
told me she was honored — and
surprised — to learn the Madigans
had decided to name the fund after
her. Like so many of our alumni, she
has a sentimental attachment to The
Daily — after all, it’s where she met
her husband and spent many of her
college days. Beyond that, though,
it also served as a sort of classroom
for her.
“I had the opportunity to cover
Chicago politics and to work with
two reporters — together, we won
a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the
Chicago City Council,” she said.
“But the first time I ever walked
into a city council meeting in my
life was in Ann Arbor. I covered the
City Council for The Daily and I’m
pretty sure I can draw a straight
line from that experience to my
experience in Chicago. There’s
such clear and direct connection.”
The Lipinski Journalism Fund
will allow us to continue this
tradition of enabling students to
grow as journalists and people
through
experiences
at
The
Daily. Using the Madigans’ gift,
we will expand our professional
development efforts by bringing
veteran
journalists
(including
Daily alumni) into the newsroom
for short-term fellowships and
sending staff members out to
journalism conferences.
The gift will also help The Daily
create a new revenue model to
achieve financial stability so it can
remain a resource for students on
campus and aspiring journalists at
the University.
Additionally, we’ll use the gift
to help younger students from a
wide range of backgrounds explore
journalism
through
workshops
targeted
toward
high
school
students.
In
future
years,
The
Daily plans to run a fully-funded
residential
summer
camp
that
will give high schoolers first-hand
experience with the work we do at
the paper.
“I remember opportunities that
I had as a high school student that
were hugely influential to me,”
Lipinski said. “It was this idea that
somebody would take you seriously
and see you as somebody ... who
might be able to have a career in this
thing that you really loved.”
The gift will also enable us to
expand the reach of the scholarships
we offer at The Daily, in an effort
to make working at the paper a
viable experience for students from
all
socioeconomic
backgrounds.
Ultimately, our goal is to bring the
feeling of acceptance that Lipinski
felt both before and during her
time at The Daily to students of all
backgrounds — especially those of
minority identities who might not
have ever thought of journalism as a
field they could pursue.
On behalf of the entire staff of
The Daily, I want to thank John
and Holly Madigan and Ann Marie
Lipinski. We have ambitious goals
at The Daily — goals that will
undoubtedly
require
financial
backing to accomplish. With the
generosity of the Madigans, we can
continue to improve this paper and
the staff that run it for years to come.
Madigan told me on the phone
last week that if there’s anything he
hopes to see come out of this fund,
it’s journalists who are prepared to
do the work that’s asked of them in
this world.
“Journalists are going into so
many different things than when
I graduated from school. But I just
hope that they’re well prepared to
be very successful. And I just think
there’s a lot of room for that. I’m
pleased to do my little thing to help
that goal.”
Thank you, Mr. Madigan. We’re
pleased, too.
- Maya Goldman, Editor in Chief
of The Michigan Daily
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On Monday, the University of
Michigan Senate Assembly met
in the Michigan League, where
Provost Martin Philbert discussed
the fiscal context of general higher
education as well as budget demands
and changes and investments to
expect at the University. Elections
for the Senate Advisory Committee
on University Affairs were held
after nominees gave short remarks
to the group.
Senate Assembly Chair Neil
Marsh called the meeting to order
and welcomed Philbert who began
his presentation by acknowledging
recent attitude shifts regarding
educational
spending
and
the
scrutiny of institutions of higher
education.
“We in Ann Arbor and other
campuses around the country are
constantly accused of being the
last bastion of liberal thought and
of actively propelling diversity of
thought,” Philbert said. “There’s a
pervasive perception both inside
our walls as well as outside that
spending is wasteful, extravagant
and not transparent.”
Philbert
countered
these
arguments by defending the value
a bachelor’s degree holds in our
society, along with research and
the pursuit and accumulation of
knowledge.
“Research certainly advances
knowledge; the whole point of
scholarship in many regards is to
uncover new understanding, new
insight or new knowledge itself,
and hopefully if not immediately, at
some point they will become useful
to society,” Philbert said. “Certainly,
the University has been, and for the
foreseeable future will be, one of the
major conservatories of history and
culture.”
Philbert continued, articulating
how
the
University
receives
funding from a range of sources,
both private and public, and a
careful equilibrium of finances
must be maintained in a changing
fiscal landscape. He also outlined
budget goals and priorities, which
included
furthering
academic
excellence through a commitment
to
community
engagement,
access and affordability for a U-M
education to all and enforcing fiscal
discipline.
“Compared to many of our peers,
the University receives a modest
amount of state support per student,
meaning that we must rely on other
sources to deliver excellence and to
provide the wealth of opportunities
that we do,” Philbert said. “What
are the goals of our budget here
at the University of Michigan?
Always, first and foremost is
increasing academic excellence —
enhanced access and affordability is
something that Mark Schlissel has
spoken about over and over again,
and then it has always been there
in our mission, but Mark has begun
to talk more forcefully and more
openly about societal engagement
and societal impact.”
Philbert
elaborated
on
the
University’s investment in these
goals, referencing the Biosciences
Initiative,
infrastructure
development with the Michigan
Research Cores, the potential of
augmented-, virtual- and mixed-
reality technology and research on
poverty solutions. He also reiterated
the success of programs such as
Wolverine Pathways, the HAIL
scholarship and Go Blue Guarantee,
which provide access to higher
education for low-income students.
“This is not ivory-tower research
— faculty and students are deeply
connected
with
communities
working with local and state
governments, public schools, health
care providers and organizations,”
Philbert said. “With augmented,
virtual and mixed reality in the
changing
landscape
of
higher
education, we’re investing in new
ways to shape instruction and the
undergraduate experience for the
future.”
Philbert remarked specifically
on
the
University’s
continued
investment in programs that make
a U-M education more accessible to
in-state and low-income students.
“Based on the success of HAIL,
we’ve transitioned to the Go Blue
Guarantee, which is free in-state
tuition for all with a family income
of less than $65,000,” Philbert said.
Philbert concluded by looking
ahead to future challenges, like
a dip in high school graduates in
Michigan, and acknowledging the
University’s successes thus far.
“Clearly, we have a national and
international brand that has been
able to attract the brightest and
best,” Philbert said.