After 20 years of promoting excellence in journalism on families, the University of Maryland’s Journalism Center on Children and Families will close at the end of 2014.
In a post last month, the center’s director, Julie Drizin, wrote that the center’s funding will run out at the end of the year, and the university’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism has no plans to keep it going. “The College has concluded that this Center is not sustainable in the current economic climate. Indeed, these are very challenging times in the worlds of journalism and education,” Drizin wrote.
Much of the center’s support came from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which also supported the center’s prestigious Casey Medal’s for Meritorious Journalism.
Browse through the archives of the Casey Medal-winning stories, and perhaps you will find some inspiration.
Sometimes the best stories don’t require lavish travel budgets; they might be as close as a neighbor’s doorstep. Or your own.
-Paul Raeburn
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