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UM gets $550,000 in journalism grants to expand its journalism program for American Indian students nationwide via the Internet

September 9, 2004 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

Two grants totaling $550,000 were awarded to help the University of Montana expand its journalism program for American Indian students nationwide via the Internet.

By The Associated Press

http://helenair.com/articles/2004/09/09/montana/a10090904_03.txt

The grants include $475,000 over the next three years from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and $75,000 from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.

The school’s reznet program is a Web-based student newspaper that hires 20 American Indian college students each year as reporters and photographers to cover their tribal communities and colleges.

The grants will help officials develop a distance learning reporting and editing skills course with the help of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.