By: E&P Staff The National Conference of Editorial Writers (NCEW) needs a half-million dollars to permanently endow the Minority Writers Seminar it has conducted for 10 years. This week, NCEW got a big boost towards that goal from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Knight awarded the organization a five-year, $150,000 grant that will allow the seminar to operate as NCEW raises the endowment. Previously, The Sigma Delta Chi Foundation of Indianapolis gave the editorial writers $100,000 toward the $500,000 they need to operate the program permanently.
The seminars are conducted each spring in cooperation with the Diversity Institute of the Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. The program trains at least 20 journalists of color each year, NCEW says. Attendees are journalists who aspire to write editorials or opinion writers with less than two years' experience at newspapers or television stations.
"This is a tremendous opportunity for young journalists and editors and an expression of the confidence national foundations have in NCEW's Minority Writers Seminar," NCEW Foundation President Morgan McGinley, editorial page editor of The Day in New London, Conn., said in a statement. "We are helping to bring racial diversity to the staffs of newspaper and TV opinion sections nationwide."
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