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Business journalism internship winners named

Seven students from universities across the country have been selected for 10-week business journalism internships at major publications in summer 2008, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism announced Tuesday.

The students were selected by the host publications in conjunction with the Reynolds Center, which funds the internships designed to help improve the quality of U.S. business journalism.

The students, universities and host publications areÂ Elizabeth Campbell, Northwestern University, The Boston Globe;Â Cassandra Crockett, Yale University, The Salt Lake Tribune;Â Kate Diaz, Northwestern University, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;Â Amy Eagleburger, University of North Carolina, The Arizona Republic;Â Ashley Macha, Arizona State University, The Business Journal of Phoenix;Â Sonia Narang, University of California, Berkeley, San Jose Mercury News; andÂ Steven Overly, University of Maryland, The Plain Dealer in Cleveland.

“The success of our internship program initiated in summer 2007 underscored the relevance of bringing together quality students with publications that have shown a commitment to quality coverage of business,” said Andrew Leckey, director of the Reynolds Center, which is based at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. “The students greatly benefit not only the host, but their own promising careers in business journalism.”

The interns placed at The Arizona Republic and The Business Journal of Phoenix will be shared with the Reynolds Center’s BusinessJournalism.org content development team.

Read more here. Disclosure: Eagleburger is one of my students.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.