Categories: OLD Media Moves

McGraw family funds biz journalism center at CUNY

With a $3 million gift from the Harold W. McGraw Jr. Family Foundation, the City University of New York’s graduate school of journalism will get a center for business journalism, reports Melanie Grayce West of The Wall Street Journal.

West writes, “The Harold W. McGraw Jr. Center for Business Journalism at CUNY will create a fellowship program, scholarships, internships, seminars and an annual symposium for business journalists.

Stephen Shepard, the founding dean of CUNY’s graduate journalism school, will oversee the development of the center’s programming. Mr. Shepard was the former editor in chief of BusinessWeek, when it was a publication owned by McGraw-Hill, and he is a friend of the family, according to Mr. McGraw. The McGraws wanted to make the gift before Mr. Shepard steps down as dean of the school later this year.

“”The late Mr. McGraw was a strong believer in the ‘whole art of journalism,’ said Mr. McGraw. ‘To be able to make a difference in some other people’s lives in his name is pure joy for me and my brother and sister.'”

Read more here.

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.

View Comments

  • The McGraw Center for Business Journalism will support several professional journalists a year who wish to spend three to six months reporting and writing significant pieces of long-form journalism about business or economics topics. The Center will work with select media partners to publish the stories, as well as posting them on the Center's web site.

    In addition, the grant will provide scholarship support to several students a year who choose the CUNY J-School's business reporting program and provide stipends for students undertaking business reporting summer internships at media companies. Finally, the Center will host an annual symposium on an important topic in business journalism.

Recent Posts

Dynamo hires former Business Insider executive editor Harrington

Former Business Insider executive editor Rebecca Harrington has been hired by Dynamo to be its…

1 day ago

Bloomberg TV hires Kerubo as desk producer

Bloomberg Television has hired Brenda Kerubo as a desk producer in London. She will be covering Europe's…

1 day ago

Jittery CNBC staff reassured by new boss

In a meeting at CNBC headquarters Thursday afternoon, incoming boss Mark Lazarus presented a bullish…

1 day ago

Making business news accessible to a wider audience

Ritika Gupta, the BBC's North American business correspondent, was interviewed by Global Woman magazine about…

2 days ago

Rest of World hires Lo as China reporter

Rest of World has hired Kinling Lo as a China reporter. Lo was previously a…

2 days ago

Bloomberg rises to No. 7 biz news website

Bloomberg News saw strong unique visitor growth to its website in October, passing Fox Business…

2 days ago