The Knight-Bagehot business journalism program for mid-career journalists at Columbia University School of Journalism will admit nine new fellows for the 2009-2010 academic year.
The fellows are:
- Raul Gallegos, 35, a foreign correspondent covering oil and politics for Dow Jones Newswires from Caracas, Venezuela;
- Martha Graybow, 38, a correspondent for Reuters since 2001Â who currently oversees U.S. legal affairs coverage from the New York bureau;
- Jackson Hewett, 33, a video producer for BBC’s New York bureau who creates up to three packages a day on corporate or economic news;
- Roland Jones ’97, 37, an editor and producer for the business news section of MSNBC.com, where he manages breaking news, edits stringers and writes a weekly column on the automotive industry;
- Amit Paley, 27, a financial investigative reporter for The Washington Post since 2008, who broke a series of stories on loopholes, mismanagement and lack of oversight related to the $700 billion financial bailout;
- Joellen Perry, 34, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal since 2006, who covers the European economy and the European Central Bank from Frankfurt, Germany;
- Rob Wherry, 41, who joined SmartMoney in 2005. He now serves as a senior editor for SmartMoney.com, where he oversees the site’s investment coverage;
- Nicole C. Wong, 30, who covered workplace issues, travel and tourism as a business reporter for The Boston Globe until volunteering for a layoff earlier this year to protect a co-worker’s job;
- Christine Young, 56, a business reporter for the Times Herald-Record (Middletown, N.Y.), who has earned investigative journalism awards for both newspaper and TV reporting.
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