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LOS ANGELES, March 1, 2005—Seven distinguished arts journalists have been selected as 2005 Fellows for the
USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program.
Funded by a grant from the J. Paul Getty Trust, the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Fellowship, now in its fourth year, seeks to foster excellence in arts and culture coverage. The program features first-hand encounters with artists, arts administrators and journalism colleagues. The three-week program in Los Angeles begins May 5.
The Fellows for 2005 are:
- Mary Frances Emmons, Orlando Sentinel, Arts & Entertainment Editor. Emmons oversees the newspaper's weekly entertainment tabloid and arts coverage in the daily lifestyle section, and was instrumental in re-introducing daily arts coverage as a Sentinel cornerstone. An advocate for Central Florida arts, she runs her department with the conviction that her team of critics, reporters and columnists are integral to the national arts scene.
- Catherine Foster, Boston Globe, Arts Reporter. A reporter and occasional critic, Foster also produces a weekly column on theater news. Her in-depth profiles of theater leaders go beyond conventional thinking to get to the heart of the creative process. Foster came to the Globe as an Assistant Foreign Editor from The Christian Science Monitor, where she had been the Australia correspondent.
- Cliff Froehlich, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Arts & Entertainment Editor. While supervising a 13-member staff, Froehlich contributes book, music and film reviews, as well as features. For 18 years, he served as chief film critic for the St. Louis alternative weekly, The Riverfront Times, where he was also arts editor. He has served as executive director of Cinema St. Louis, presenter of the St. Louis International Film Festival.
- Rick Holter, The Dallas Morning News, Arts Editor. Holter conceived a live daily A & E section that is currently in prototype. His staff of 29 (14 of them critics) produce five sections weekly, a daily arts page and overnight reviews. Their work often appears on Page One. Holter also has a solid background in art design. At the St. Petersburg Times, the series he designed and supervised won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.
- Alison MacAdam, NPR's All Things Considered, Assistant Producer, Washington, DC. MacAdam produces long-term projects, writes copy -- including for her own occasional segments -- edits, mixes and pitches story ideas for NPR's nationally syndicated late afternoon show. With literature, classical violin and theater training in her background, MacAdam has invested six years in uncovering meaningful arts stories for public radio.
- Joyce Morgan, The Sydney Morning Herald, Arts Editor. Morgan is responsible for editing daily arts pages and overseeing arts coverage across Australia's largest circulation broadsheet. A former senior arts writer for the Herald, she has also served as a producer and researcher for ABC Radio 2BL in Sydney. Born in Liverpool, England, Morgan has worked as a copy editor on The Guardian’s arts and foreign desks.
- Lynn Neary, NPR’s Arts Desk, Correspondent, Washington, DC. When she joined NPR's Cultural Desk in 1993, Neary developed its first religion beat. Her reports on arts-related issues were a highly respected component of All Things Considered, where she served as weekend-host from 1984 to 1992. She continues to contribute major stories as a member of NPR’s arts & information unit.
Lynn Neary has been named the program's first Senior Fellow. She will lead discussions about how radio and television arts reporting impacts America's cultural landscape, drawing from her present experience at NPR’s Cultural Desk. For the first time, the fellows will generate a position paper about their experiences and views on the future of arts journalism, examining issues of diversity, information delivery, and political and economic contexts.
"The 2005 USCAnnenberg/Getty Fellowship will focus intently on the impact that arts and arts reporting make on society," said
Sasha Anawalt, director of the Program. "This class of USC/Getty Fellows possess the experience and the will, discipline and vision that could make a real difference to the field."
A committee of six journalists selected the Fellows from an international pool that included applicants from Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, Nigeria, Romania and the United States.
The J. Paul Getty Trust is an international cultural and philanthropic organization devoted to the visual arts that includes the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Getty Foundation. The J. Paul Getty Trust and its programs are based at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Additional information is available on the Getty Web site at
www.getty.edu
Located in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California, the
USC Annenberg School for Communication (www.annenberg.usc.edu) is among the nation's leading institutions devoted to the study of arts journalism and criticism. Its programs include the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program and the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism. In addition to its programs for working journalists, USC Annenberg enrolls of more than 1,500 graduate and undergraduate students earning B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in journalism, communication, and public relations.
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