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Journalism Mr. Reynolds, himself, set the tone for the Foundation’s journalism-related philanthropy. Recipient of a small scholarship himself ($22 a month from the Eugene Fields scholarship) while attending the University of Missouri, Mr. Reynolds had in the 1970s decided to fund what was believed to have been the single largest journalism scholarship program at the time. These grants provided full scholarships for junior and senior journalism students and were one of Mr. Reynolds’ and his foundation’s first journalism grant awards. In 1983, Mr. Reynolds personally awarded a $125,000 grant to the University of Nevada/Reno (UNR), which in turn named its school of journalism in his honor – The Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism and Center for Advanced Media Studies. Additionally, in 1987, $2.5 million was provided by the Foundation as a matching grant to UNR for the construction of a new school of journalism building. The Foundation’s board of trustees approved an additional grant of $5 million in 2000 to fund technology support, two chairs and a program of visiting professionals at the Reynolds School. www.unr.edu/journalism The National Judicial College (NJC) at the University of Nevada/Reno, was awarded $4,000,000 by the Foundation in 1997 for creation of classroom space and a model courtroom facility at the College’s headquarters. The NJC received an additional grant of $1,250,000 over five years for creation and operation of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Courts and Media. Purpose of the new Center was to engender constructive dialogue between the judiciary and journalists, the goal being better cooperation between the two and a greater flow of information to the public concerning court operations. www.judges.org; www.judges.org.nccm The National Judicial College received additional grants totaling $2,327,477 in 2004 for continuing support for the Reynolds Center for Courts and Media. The grants supported two national conferences and a series of one-day judge/journalists workshops in states throughout the country. In 1998, a $5.2 million grant from the Reynolds Foundation to the American Press Institute (API) funded renovation and expansion of the Institute’s Marcel Breuer-designed headquarters building, plus equipment and capital improvements for the structure that now is named The Donald W. Reynolds Building at API. Based in Reston, Virginia, API is an independent educational center that provides leadership-development and skills-training programs for newspaper professionals and journalism educators. www.americanpressinstitute.org The Foundation has made a series of significant grants to fund efforts to improve the quality of business journalism across the country. The first of these grants was for $1.5 million, awarded to Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, in 1999 to establish the Donald W. Reynolds Professorship in Business Journalism. This position, held by veteran newspaper editor Pamela K. Luecke, is responsible for providing courses in business journalism and the business of journalism, including economics, accounting and management, to Washington and Lee students. A second grant, for $453,000, was awarded to Washington & Lee in 2004 to support additional activities in the Donald W. Reynolds Program in Business Journalism. The new activities include a program of visiting professors, visiting journalists in residence, and a series of summer business-journalism internships. http://journalism.wlu.edu In 2001, the Foundation issued a grant of $595,000 to the Southern Newspapers Publishers Association (SNPA) to support a two-year series of business-journalism workshops held across the south. http://www.snpa.org/ Two years later, the Foundation’s board of trustees provided $2.9 million to the American Press Institute to establish the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. The Center conducts scores of free, one-day workshops across the country, using leading experts in the field of business journalism as faculty. The Center also conducts online training, and maintains a sophisticated Web site that is visited daily by thousands of journalists and that provides a rich array of sources for journalists covering financial business and financial topics. www.businessjournalism.org The largest single journalism grant awarded by the Foundation was in 2004 to the University of Missouri School of Journalism. The $31 million grant for creation of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute is funding renovation of two buildings and construction of a third on the campus in Columbia, Missouri, for use by the Institute, and will provide programming support through 2010. The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute will focus on advanced studies in journalism values, practices and technologies, and the role of journalism in democratic societies. www.journalism.missouri.edu In 2005 the Foundation’s trustees awarded the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University a grant of $350,000, supporting the award of one Donald W. Reynolds Nieman Fellowship in Community Journalism each year over a five-year period. The Fellowship is awarded to outstanding journalists currently working at daily community newspapers of less than 50,000 circulation in the United States, and who commit to return to their newspaper following a year of special studies at Harvard. http://www.nieman.harvard.edu The Foundation made two major additional journalism grants in 2006, both to support training for journalism professionals. The first was for $171,000 to The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, and provided eight Reynolds Fellowships per year for three years for attendance at the Institute’s summer Editing Program at the Reynolds School of Journalism at Nevada/Reno. www.maynardinstitute.org
The second was for $3,517,895 to Arizona State University’s Cronkite
School of Journalism to operate the Donald W. Reynolds Center for
Business Journalism for three years.
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http://www.asu.edu/news/stories/200606/20060602_reynolds.htm In 2007, the Foundation made a three-year, $2.3 million grant to the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) to fund 13 Donald W. Reynolds High School Journalism Institutes for scholastic newspaper advisers. Three of the Institutes will be held in the summer of 2007, with five each planned for the summers of 2008 and 2009. Host sites in 2007 include the University of Missouri School of Journalism, the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, and the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism and Advanced Media Studies at the University of Nevada-Reno. See: www.asne.org Also in 2007, the Trustees made a
three-year grant of $450,000 to the Department of Journalism at
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