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June 25, 2002 -- No. 365 |
Knight grant to fund training for top newspaper copy editors
CHAPEL HILL -- For the next five summers, newspaper copy editors from around the country will receive advanced training in weeklong institutes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, thanks to a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
UNC's School of Journalism and Mass Communication will run the institutes each summer through 2006. Eighteen copy editors will be in Chapel Hill from July 28 through Aug. 2 in the first of the institutes financed by the $250,000 grant.
The Miami foundation's gift counts toward the goal of the Carolina First campaign, a multi-year effort to position UNC as the nation's leading public university. The campaign goal and the total raised to date will be announced in October.
Participants in this year’s copy-editing institute will come from all over the country, from papers as large as The Los Angeles Times and USA Today and as small as the semiweekly South Whidbey Record of Langley, Wash., said Bill Cloud, an associate professor in the school and director of the institutes with Raleigh Mann, professor emeritus.
The editors will receive training in a wide range of subjects, including grammar, fact-checking, mathematics and geography,
Cloud said. They’ll improve their ability to write headlines, to deal with long writing projects and to make the most of their own strengths."Cloud and Mann do a splendid job with this program, which aims at improving newspapers throughout the United States," said Dr. Richard Cole, school dean.
Participating editors are expected to pass on the knowledge they obtain to other copy editors though avenues such as in-house newspaper seminars. Some may use their training to teach editing in college and high school.
The program "recognizes and rewards copy editors for their valuable role in seeing that newspapers are fair, accurate and easy-to read," Cloud said.
For more information, visit http://www.ibiblio.org/copyed/ or call Cloud at 962-4070.
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Contact: Bill Cloud, 919-962-4070, bcloud@email.unc.edu