URI Metcalf Institute awards
reporting fellowship
to minority journalist
Narragansett, RI -- September 20, 2001
-- The first Metcalf Institute
Environmental Reporting Fellowship has
been awarded to Suzannah Gonzales of
Providence by The
Metcalf
Institute for Marine and Environmental
Reporting at the University of Rhode
Island’s (URI) Graduate School of
Oceanography. The fellowship supports a
minority journalist to study marine and
environmental science at URI and work as
an environmental reporter for a National
Public Radio member station.
Gonzales, formerly a reporter at The
Providence Journal, will be based at
the URI Graduate School of Oceanography
(GSO) for four weeks while she studies
marine and environmental science and
develops story ideas in preparation for a
nine-month position as an environmental
reporter for WRNI in Providence. Funded in
part by The Rhode Island Foundation, the
fellowship was created to increase the
number of minority journalists who have
been trained in science to report on
science-based news.
Prior to working at The Providence
Journal, Gonzales worked at The
Washington Post and for Voice of
America. A graduate of the University of
Chicago, she is interested in covering
science news of concern to Rhode Island
communities including urban sprawl,
environmental justice, and vector-borne
diseases.
While she is conducting independent
research at URI, Gonzales will work with
her mentor, GSO professor of oceanography
John
King of West Kingston. On the URI
Kingston Campus, her contact will be URI
plant sciences professor
Roger
LeBrun of West Kingston.
The Metcalf Institute for Marine and
Environmental Reporting, based at the URI
Graduate School of Oceanography, provides
science training for journalists including
another fellowship program, the Annual
Workshop for Journalists. The Metcalf
Institute, named for the late Providence
Journal publisher, Michael P. Metcalf, is
funded by the A.H. Belo Corp., the
Providence Journal Foundation, the Philip
L. Graham Fund and the Telaka
Foundation.
For more information about the Metcalf
Institute call 874-6211 or visit
http://www.gso.uri.edu/metcalf.
Contact: Lisa Cugini, (401) 874-6642,
lcugini@gso.uri.edu
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