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INSIDE n WHY THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLED THE CCJ “ONE OF THE NATION’S BOLDEST JOURNALISM EXPERIMENTS” n JUNIOR TURNS CLASS PROJECT INTO PAID FEATURE ON NPR n CCJ HOSTS COMPETITION FOR 4-YEAR FULL-TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS n TOP 7 REASONS WHY MERCER IS THE PLACE FOR MEDIA n CCJ ADDS TV STATION, BRINGS ESPN3 TO THE CCJ

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The Center for Collaborative Journalism (CCJ) is a unique partnership between Mercer University, The Telegraph and Georgia Public Broadcasting, with generous support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and The Peyton Anderson Foundation. Our groundbreaking collaboration has students, faculty and veteran journalists working together in a joint newsroom. Learning in a “teaching hospital” model, our students engage the community using the latest digital tools and leave with a portfolio of published work that gives them an edge in a rapidly changing, but never more important, field.

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INSIDEn WHY THE

NEW YORK

TIMES CALLED

THE CCJ

“ONE OF THE

NATION’S

BOLDEST

JOURNALISM

EXPERIMENTS”

n JUNIOR

TURNS CLASS

PROJECT INTO

PAID FEATURE

ON NPR

n CCJ HOSTS

COMPETITION

FOR 4-YEAR

FULL-TUITION

SCHOLARSHIPS

n TOP 7

REASONS WHY

MERCER IS THE

PLACE FOR

MEDIA

n CCJ ADDS

TV STATION,

BRINGS ESPN3

TO THE CCJ

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I am thrilled that you are interested in the Center for Collaborative Journalism (CCJ) at Mercer University. I hope

you will find the information in this booklet helpful.

Not that long ago, I was basically in your position. I was considering Mercer, CCJ and Macon. After selling Paste, the magazine I’d co-founded, I was preparing to move to New York and work with some of the best journalists and business minds in the world. It’s where I thought I wanted and needed to be.

Then, days away from making that commitment, Mercer called. I agreed to listen. I never thought I would say no to New York and what I thought was my dream company, but I quickly realized that CCJ provided a rare opportunity.

I could work with talented students to help transform journalism and journalism education worldwide. I could work with award-winning journalists to discover new ways to deliver information and engage communities. And I could join and contribute to a diverse, vibrant, creative and walkable community in the midst of remarkable revitalization. To borrow from Steve Jobs, I wanted “to make a dent in the universe,” and CCJ offered me (and everyone involved) that opportunity.

As you’ll read in these pages, now is a fantastic time to study journalism. As a discipline, journalism is dynamic. You will study the changing media landscape as it changes. It is challenging. You will have the opportunity to push yourself and improve as much as you desire. And it is valuable. You will learn to research complex topics and effectively communicate your findings to various audiences. Those are treasured skills for any job or graduate field.

As a career choice, journalism is interesting and varied. I have delved into the craft of acting with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, built a viral app that attracted millions of users, and worked with journalists across platforms to cover elections. Journalism is important work. Journalists provide the information citizens need to govern themselves and tell the stories that bind people together. And, despite what you may have heard, journalism is filled with great job opportunities, especially for young people. Journalists in their 20s are landing leadership positions at major news organizations, starting innovative digital companies and forging the future of news.

The Center for Collaborative Journalism is the premier place to build the skills you will need. At CCJ, you combine your education with your apprenticeship — not during your last year or two, but over your entire time here. You learn by working with award-winning professionals to serve a real community. You study a curriculum that was designed for the digital age. You build a portfolio of professionally published stories that places you at the top of the field.

I hope you will take the opportunity to visit CCJ to see first-hand what journalism students are achieving here at Mercer and to discover why The New York Times called our initiative “one of the nation’s boldest journalism experiments.”

If I can be of any help during your college search, don’t hesitate to contact me at (478) 301-2919 or [email protected].

Tim Regan-Porter

FROM THE DIRECTOR

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1Your faculty aren’t former journalists with

accomplishments behind them … they’re

connected, respected working journalists

in the midst of making their mark.

2We’ve added WMUB, a television station

that gives students the opportunity to

work with professionals from ESPN3 to

broadcast Mercer Athletics.

3A simple homework

assignment can

turn into a paid

feature on NPR.

4Your journalism education

combines with Mercer’s focus on

service to make you a reporter

who really can change the world.

5You’ll learn everything from

music writing to coding

with the co-founder of

Paste Magazine.

6A small program means

individualized attention

and more opportunities

than students.

7 Instead of waiting to graduate

to start your career, you’ll

begin building your résumé

from your very first day.

REASONSWHY MERCER IS THE PLACE FOR MEDIA

TOP

7

TIM REGAN-PORTERCCJ DIRECTOR

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JOURNALISM EDUCATION NEEDED TO CHANGE

You can’t toss a newspaper these days without hearing about all the ways journalism is dying. Newsrooms are shrinking. Magazines are folding. Broadcast ratings are plummeting.

But the truth is, journalism isn’t dying. It’s evolving. It’s adapting to the new ways people receive and process information. It’s growing into a digital world where the lines between producers and consumers are blurring. It’s adapting to the breakneck pace of 24-hour information consumption. But we still live in a world where people need accurate, reliable, skilled journalists to serve communities and provide news, information and stories that matter.

Unfortunately, journalism education has, on the whole, failed to adapt to these changes. Employers were finding new hires coming out of college without the real-world skills needed to survive in a media environment where writers must also be

photographers and videographers and coders. In today’s media landscape, journalists need to do it all. They need to be innovative and entrepreneurial. And they need to do it from day one.

But how can we educate these future media entrepreneurs? This was the question prominent thinkers, researchers and media analysts were asking at places like the Poynter Institute and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

The Center for Collaborative Journalism at Mercer University is the answer to that question. The CCJ works to train journalists not just for the media jobs of today, but to invent the media jobs of tomorrow.

SO THAT’S THE GOAL. BUT HOW DO WE DO IT?

These concerned media thinkers started by asking who was doing the very best job teaching students and training professionals. The answer was clear. Medical schools, with their time-tested teaching hospital model, are the single best mechanism for training professionals in any field. Sure, future doctors spend more than their fair share of hours in

the classroom or in the library, but anyone who’s watched a hospital drama on TV knows that medical students spend just as much, if not more, time in clinics and hospitals learning from real working physicians as they treat actual patients. Under the guidance of trained professionals in a real-world setting, they develop not just a knowledge base, but a set of skills they’ll actually use in their day-to-day jobs.

And when the institutions that would form the CCJ started thinking about how to apply this teaching hospital model to media education, it didn’t take long to develop some clear strategies. Don’t just bring professionals into the classroom; send the students out to work with the professionals. Stop treating internships as a separate, optional component of the educational experience. Spend classroom time learning a wide variety of skills — everything from writing to coding to audio and video production — that relate directly to the work students are seeing in these professional environments. And minimize the amount of work done just for a professor; learn by doing real stories for the community.

So with a $3.7 million grant from the Knight Foundation and an additional $1 million from the Peyton Anderson Foundation, Mercer set out to make this dream a reality. Mercer’s department of Journalism and Media Studies Department partnered with The Telegraph of Macon and Georgia Public Broadcasting — which also received a Knight grant for their part in the initiative — to create an educational and pre-professional experience unlike any other in the country. And if you make Mercer your choice for media education, you’ll be on the forefront of an operation The New York Times called “one of the nation’s boldest journalism experiments.”

THE STORY OF THE CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVEJOURNALISM

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JOURNALISM

ISN’T DYING.

IT’S EVOLVING.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

CALLED THE CCJ

“ONE OF THE

NATION’S BOLDEST

JOURNALISM

EXPERIMENTS.”

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THE PARTNERS

Imagine that you’re a sculptor who gets to go to school in the Museum of Modern Art, or a music student who studies in

Carnegie Hall. That’s what life is like for students at the Center, who take classes — and can even live — in the same building as a busy, Pulitzer Prize-winning newsroom. The Telegraph, Georgia’s third largest newspaper and one of the oldest in the country, has its news operations right in the CCJ building on Mercer’s campus, giving students the opportunity to observe and participate in a 24-7 news organization. From shadowing professional journalists to

reporting stories to producing content for Macon.com, our students don’t just leave school with a collection of clips from a summer internship or the campus newspaper. They graduate with a portfolio of work comparable to that of a news professional. And because The Telegraph is a digital-first newsroom, our students aren’t stuck learning the old ways; they’re on the front lines of an interactive media business. Publishing an average of 90 pieces in The Telegraph a semester, CCJ students aren’t just learning; they’re doing.

For students with an interest in broadcasting or nonprofit media, there’s no better place to learn than Georgia Public

Broadcasting. With studios located next door to the CCJ, and a growing newsroom of radio, television and new media journalists, GPB Macon broadcasts NPR news on 89.7 FM WMUM. It’s also a portal into GPB’s statewide network of PBS television stations.

OUR STUDENTS

AREN’T STUCK

LEARNING THE

OLD WAYS;

THEY’RE ON THE

FRONT LINES OF

AN INTERACTIVE

MEDIA BUSINESS.

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CCJ STUDENTS

HAVE AIRED

STORIES FOR

LOCAL, STATE

AND NATIONAL

AUDIENCES

OF MILLIONS.

Covering everything from high school sports to environmental issues and politics, CCJ students can sharpen their skills in writing and reporting, utilizing everything from audio to photography to video. Thanks to the statewide network of GPB and its connections to NPR and PBS, CCJ students have aired stories for local, state and national audiences of millions — an opportunity most journalism students can only dream of.

And there’s even space for CCJ students to create projects of their own passions with the guidance and support of GPB’s professional journalists. Media Studies major Burgess Brown (BA ’14) was able to take his love of music and interest in film production to create a video series called “Songs on Site.” The project features intimate performances

of artists playing songs drawn from Macon’s rich R&B, soul and Southern rock heritage.

We’ve added WMUB, a television station airing diverse programming — from political and cultural events to locally produced news programs. Students working with WMUB will also have the opportunity to take advantage of Mercer’s relationship with ESPN3 to produce content related to the Bears’ NCAA Division I athletic teams. They will receive training from faculty, staff and a cohort of professionals from ESPN, and have opportunities both on-camera and behind the scenes.

ESPN3 is ESPN’s live multi-screen sports network, a destination that delivers thousands of exclusive sports events annually. It is accessible online at WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app and streamed on televisions through Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast (via the WatchESPN app), Roku, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The network is currently available to more than 92 million homes at no additional cost to fans who receive their high-speed Internet connection or video subscription from an affiliated service provider. The network is also available at no cost to approximately 21 million U.S. college students and U.S.-based military personnel via computers, smartphones and tablets connected to on-campus educational and on-base military broadband and Wi-Fi networks.

“In many ways, Mercer’s journalism students are auditioning for a job each time

they produce a story that lands in a publication or broadcast.”

— Georgia Trend

“[CCJ] is a gift to undergird democracy in every city, town and county where

these journalists will live and work for years to come.”

— David Hudson, General Counsel,

Georgia Press Association

“For potential journalism majors with the threat of their discipline vanishing before

their eyes, the merger brings a much-needed sense of hope; a hope that goes

beyond ‘pizza and conversation.’ The university they call home is supporting their

study and possible profession directly in the real world, and not merely in theory.

Working, at many times literally, right next to an active newspaper evokes a unique

involvement that blends the practice of journalism and the study of it…. ‘The more

important aspect of their relationship with The Telegraph and with Georgia Public

Broadcasting will be the day-to-day, sometimes spur of the moment, interactions

with reporters and editors that they are already beginning to accrue.… No

internship, no class, just being available in the right place at the right time.’”

— Uloop (Tufts University)

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE

CCJ “The Center for Collaborative

Journalism offers a fitting

setting for connecting

thinkers across disciplines.”

— Media Impact Funders

“… a cutting-edge experiment

that industry experts say could

provide a model to help save local

journalism in America.”

— ABP News

“Just as our medical students train in

teaching hospitals with live patients

in real situations, Mercer journalism

students will learn in a real-life

multimedia newsroom through a

one-of-a-kind collaboration with The Telegraph and GPB Media, on whose

websites, pages and airwaves their

best work will appear.”

— Mercer University President William D. Underwood

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THE EXPERIENCE

T he CCJ’s curriculum has been developed thinking not just about journalism

today, but where journalism is going in the future. This is why, even in traditional news writing and editing courses, you’ll find a focus on digital media at the core of every class.

All journalism students start

their education in our Journalism and Media Bootcamp class, where you learn how traditional concepts interact with digital tools. The course gives students a chance to dip their toes into a variety of media platforms from their very first semester.

From Bootcamp, you can tailor your education to fit your interests and curiosities. Want to learn coding? Try our

Hacking the Media course, where you’ll learn the basics of HTML, CSS and other digital platforms. Want to make your own mark in the media world? Then Entrepreneurial Journalism is for you, where we teach you to think of yourself as a brand and bring your skills to the forefront. Want to learn about the data journalism that drives sites like Vox, FiveThirtyEight and The Upshot? We have an entire course for you.

The CCJ also uses Macon as a lab to teach students how to be community journalists, because professionals at even the largest, most prestigious outlets like The New York Times report that they desperately need people with the skills to cover local news.

Our curriculum is constantly growing and changing to meet the needs of our students and the wide field of media, so that when you graduate, you have a knowledge base that matches the jobs of tomorrow.

AT THE CCJ, YOU

WON’T HAVE TO

WORRY ABOUT

HOW YOU’RE

GOING TO

SURVIVE AT AN

UNPAID SUMMER

INTERNSHIP

SOMEWHERE.

YOU’LL BE ABLE

TO UTILIZE

OUR PARTNER

RELATIONSHIPS TO

GAIN INTERNSHIP

EXPERIENCE

WHILE YOU’RE

TAKING CLASSES.

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STUDENT BUILDS CAREER FROM THE

CLASSROOMJane Hammond (BA ’15) has long dreamed

of being a sports reporter, and when she found out about the CCJ, she knew it was the perfect place to help her achieve that goal. At first, faculty and staff connected her with the sports editor at The Telegraph, and just days later, she also landed the Mercer football beat for GPB.

“I knew CCJ offered the ability to get real experience in media organizations,” Hammond said, “but the amount I was able to do immediately and throughout the year was amazing.”

In that first year at the CCJ, she became the local voice of Mercer football for GPB Macon and even had several pieces air statewide. But it wasn’t until basketball season that things really took off.

Hammond followed the Bears to the 2014 NCAA tournament in Raleigh, N.C., and she was in the arena when Mercer upset Duke. She remembers working with “a very, very patient Adam [Ragusea] over the phone on the bus in Raleigh,” to produce a news spot that aired twice on NPR to national audiences.

Hammond followed that story up with a four-minute feature on efforts to avoid concussions in youth football, which aired on

NPR’s All Things Considered and became one of the top stories on NPR.org. That piece came directly out of a final project for her Digital Audio class — and NPR paid her almost $500.

Hammond didn’t limit her experiences to radio, though. She also worked closely with The Telegraph’s Jonathan Heeter, a local sports reporter. She shadowed him at high school football games through September, observing and sharpening her skills on game reporting and stats-keeping.

“I was pretty nervous and anxious for the first few weeks,” Hammond said, “but he stuck with me when he didn’t necessarily need someone distracting him from his job.”

The student-mentor partnership paid off, and Hammond published several football stories for The Telegraph in her first year with the paper. She was able to turn that experience into paid freelance work between semesters.

“I learned how to write on really, really tight deadlines,” she said. Without her Telegraph experience, “I would be very ill-prepared to be a legitimate, functional sports journalist.”

And that’s what Hammond sees as the most valuable aspect of getting her education at Mercer. Nothing about the

program is limited to the classroom.“You can talk about writing ledes and

practice interviewing your classmates all you want,” she said, “but that’s not the same as actually doing the same thing on deadlines with subjects who you need to get real information out of.”

Hammond is looking forward to her career after life at the CCJ. She feels equipped to avoid a lot of the struggle that she imagines other new professionals experience.

Had she chosen a more traditional journalism program, she might have still gotten an internship or a job, she said. “But I’d go into a newsroom, press box or high school gym as weak and ill-prepared.”

But as a Mercer CCJ graduate, Hammond will walk into her first full-time job with all the confidence and skills of a reporter who’s been in the business a few years.

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JANE HAMMOND

FACULTY GUIDE STUDENT WORK

TO NATIONAL AUDIENCES

Adam Ragusea was living in Boston and producing a daily news-talk program for WBUR, “Boston’s NPR News Station,” when he saw that Georgia Public Broadcasting was looking for a reporter to cover Macon and work with CCJ students.

Ragusea, who didn’t study journalism in college, was intrigued by the idea of getting involved in educating the next generation of media professionals.

“In Boston, I started working with interns who were coming from the many elite journalism schools in that city,” he said. “And while a lot of them were great young people, they had next to no practical knowledge about journalism. That made me very, very worried about how this trade is being taught.”

From the moment Ragusea arrived in Macon, he was motivated to both serve the community as a journalist and the profession as an educator.

Whether he’s hosting Morning Edition, covering local news in Macon, or taking any of the thousands of untold Macon stories to national audiences on programs like All Things Considered

and Marketplace, Ragusea is always looking for ways to bring students into his work. Students have shadowed him in the field and in the studio and worked under his guidance to report local news. And thanks to his wide-ranging connections in the public radio world, he’s been able to help bring student-produced pieces to national audiences on NPR.

“The CCJ offers young media-makers a rare opportunity — to practice with live ammo,” he said. “Every assignment you do has the potential to be published by a real newspaper or broadcaster and consumed by thousands of people.”

This means that while journalism students at other programs are graduating with clips from their campus newspaper or the occasional summer internship, Mercer students are leaving with the portfolio of someone who’s already been in the field for a couple of years.

And that portfolio isn’t just useful for students interested in pursuing traditional media careers. For those who aren’t sure what direction they’d like their career to take, Ragusea said the CCJ is still a great place to get an education.

“Journalism is a terrific major for anyone who wants to save and/or change the world,” he said. “You’ll learn how to write, research,

talk to intimidating people, distinguish strong arguments from weak ones, and structure a compelling argument.” Ragusea thinks these are skills that are key in almost any field, which is why Mercer journalism alumni can be found in almost every field.

The relationship between mentor and student isn’t one-sided, Ragusea said. “All of us who work in media struggle to remember what it was like to consume media before we made it. Students bring a fresh perspective that really helps us continually re-set our compass and makes us think critically.”

Ragusea has since moved into the CCJ full time as a faculty member and Journalist-in-Residence, giving him more time to both work with students and pursue the kind of stories that won him a national Edward R. Murrow award in 2014.

ADAM RAGUSEA

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THE FACULTYWhat sets apart the classroom experience at CCJ is the

integration of traditional faculty, Journalists-in-Residence and our partners’ editors and reporters. Classes are taught by active journalists paired with academics committed to quality teaching. They are award-winning writers, editors, publishers, photographers, videographers, developers, educators and entrepreneurs. This group brings current, cutting-edge experience and a vast network of connections in the media world, all of which they utilize to ensure CCJ students gain the skills they need to be successful in whatever field they choose to enter.

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STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD

We want to make sure your four years at the CCJ are what you need them to be. That’s why we give students the opportunity to join the CCJ Student Advisory Board. These students not only plan social events and help bring notable speakers to campus, but they also provide valuable feedback to the Center to make sure we’re meeting their needs.

MACON IN THE MIRROR

In 2013, the CCJ, The Telegraph and Georgia Public Broadcasting launched their first joint-project. Macon in the Mirror was an opportunity for the CCJ and its partners to help reflect Macon back onto itself, to document a community’s identity, and to share the hopes of its residents as Macon moves into the future. Students and professionals worked side by side to report stories from every corner of this diverse community in a five-part series that ran as a print feature in The Telegraph, a digital feature on Macon.com and as a radio feature on GPB.

The project was recognized by the Georgia Press Association with a first place prize in the Community Journalism category, continuing Mercer’s legacy of service-learning.

MERCER ON MISSION

One of the unique aspects of a Mercer education is the focus on service-learning, and in no place is that more obvious than Mercer On Mission. This unique program seeks to cross cultures and change lives through immersive study abroad and service-learning programs in Liberia, Uganda, Kenya,

Vietnam and other countries across the globe. CCJ students are encouraged to participate in this unique experience, both in the program’s traditional trips, or through special opportunities with Mercer Marketing. In 2013, a CCJ student accompanied a delegation of administrators, faculty and donors to observe and cover the engineering program in Vietnam, where Mercer students were working to fit amputees with high-quality, low-cost prosthetics. These kinds of travel opportunities provide aspiring journalists and storytellers with the skills and experiences to help them make a difference through media.

BEYOND THE CLASSROOM

STUDENTS AND

PROFESSIONALS

WORK SIDE

BY SIDE

TO REPORT

STORIES FROM

EVERY CORNER

OF THIS DIVERSE

COMMUNITY....

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A n aspiring journalist couldn’t ask for a more interesting region to cover. In a matter of minutes to a few hours, you can visit rural farms, a sea port and majestic mountains. In just over an hour, you can be in Atlanta, a top-10 media market with strong

connections to CCJ. Macon itself has all of the culture amenities of a big city — from orchestras to theaters to music, film and book festivals. And this area provides access to just about everything that’s good, bad and changing about America.

As a budding storyteller at CCJ, you’ll be able to tell stories about …

… and so much more.

STORIES TO TELL

nAn industrial economy transitioning to a

knowledge-based one

nProfessional and NCAA Division I sports

nA rapidly revitalizing downtown

nAreas of urban and rural poverty as well as

areas of extravagant wealth

nCommunities seeking solutions to racial divides

nGrowing populations of recent immigrants

nHardball city politics

nExquisite historic antebellum architecture and the people

working to save it

nMassive corporate agriculture rubbing shoulders with

upstart organic farms

nA vibrant and diverse food scene

nA rich musical heritage (Macon arguably gave birth to rock ’n’ roll,

soul music and Southern rock)

nHalf a dozen public and private colleges and universities

nPublic K-12 schools undergoing dramatic and rapid reform

nOne of the nation’s largest military bases and the galaxy of private

Pentagon contractors that surrounds it

nA large population of veterans and active duty military personnel

nEnvironmental issues and those working to address them

nBeautiful lakes and rivers, three state parks and soon-to-be

Georgia’s first national park

nOne of the longest continually-inhabited archeological sites

in the Western Hemisphere

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I f you’d like to know more about life at the Center for Collaborative Journalism, there’s no better way than a visit. You’ll be able to meet with faculty, staff and professionals, tour campus and our partner offices, and even talk to current students. To arrange a visit, go to undergrad.mercer.edu or call (800) 840-8577.

If the Center for Collaborative Journalism sounds like the place for you, you can apply online at undergrad.mercer.edu to start your journey.

FINANCIAL AIDMercer’s Office of Student Financial Planning works closely with students and

their families to put together a financial aid package that can make the actual cost of attendance lower than many other competing institutions. This is why US News & World Report has ranked Mercer University as a “Best Value in the South.” This ranking draws from Mercer’s academic quality as well as the net cost of attendance for students receiving need-based aid. If you’re concerned about the cost of college, we invite you to contact the Office of University Admissions so we can talk to you more about how to make Mercer an affordable option for you and your family.

SCHOLARSHIPTo illustrate our commitment to attracting the best young minds,

CCJ is now offering dedicated scholarships for students interested in journalism and media studies. Our Media Innovation Scholars will receive four-year scholarships to Mercer — up to and including full-tuition, a value of over $135,000.

High school seniors are eligible to apply. You must apply to Mercer and submit media samples and a short essay on the evolution of media for the digital age.

Selected applicants are invited to campus for a preview day in late January where we will also award the CCJ Media Innovator prize to a leading national media-maker who is transforming the ways we consume news and information and interact to find civic solutions.

For more information, visit ccj.mercer.edu/scholarship.

ADMISSIONS

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NATIONAL JOURNALISM ADVISORY BOARD

The Center’s National Journalism Advisory Board is made up of leading journalists, editors, publishers and educators from across the country. They meet regularly to provide advice to the CCJ and ensure we’re producing students who will succeed in the ever-evolving media landscape. And unlike many other programs, our students actually get face-time with our Board, like when they come to campus to meet with students, conduct mock job interviews and provide feedback. CCJ students continue to benefit from this network of well-known and well-respected professionals.

Joaquin Alvarado CEO, The Center for Investigative Reporting

Chris Carroll Director of Student Media, Vanderbilt Student Communications, Inc.

Jennifer Greer, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Journalism, University of Alabama

Anders Gyllenhaal Vice President for News, McClatchy Company

Randy Siegel President, Advance Local

Neil Skene Consultant and Former Publisher, Congressional Quarterly

Wyatt Thomas (Tom) Johnson Jr. Former Chairman and Chief Executive, CNN

Mindy McAdams Knight Chair, University of Florida College of Journalism & Communications

Reg Murphy Vice Chairman, National Geographic Society and former Publisher, The Baltimore Sun

Charles L. Overby Former Chairman and CEO, Current Trustee, Freedom Forum

David Rapp Chief Content Officer, CQ Roll Call

MaryLynn Ryan Bureau Chief, Southeast Region, CNN/US

Mark Stencel Digital Fellow, The Poynter Institute and former Managing Editor, Digital News, National Public Radio

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