The Knight Center for Specialized Journalism is a national program which has for 20 years offered free high-level seminars for print, broadcast and online reporters, editors and editorial writers.

At these seminars, journalists receive in-depth training in subjects related to their coverage—law, health, science, society, demographics, national and international affairs. Participants meet like-minded colleagues, get grounded in a new assignment or rekindle enthusiasm for a long-time beat.

Fellowships

The Center has been offering intensive seminars for journalists since 1987. More than 2,700 fellowships have been awarded to journalists from nearly 500 news organizations.

Applications are sought from reporters and editors working for independent news organizations as well as from independent online and citizen journalists.

The Knight Center is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is an American private, non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts....

 and is affiliated with the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Philip Merrill College of Journalism

The Philip Merrill College of Journalism is a journalism school located at the University of Maryland, College Park. The college was founded in 1945 and was named after newspaper editor Philip Merrill in 2001. The school has about 600 undergraduates and 70 graduate students enrolled.The school...

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SpecializedJournalism.org

In the Spring of 2008, the Knight Center also re-launched its website, specializedjournalism.org. It contains online resources for beat journalists and the general public and features multimedia highlights from Knight seminars. The Knight Center is also offering online seminars. Innovation is a key goal of the Knight Center program and other features will be coming online throughout 2008 and beyond.

The Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at Merrill College

Merrill College

Merrill College is a residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The theme of the college, and the name of its freshman core course, is "cultural identities and global consciousness."-Location:...

 is one of a few Knight Centers at universities nationwide. Others include the Knight Digital Media Center, a partnership of USC and UC Berkeley; and the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University

Arizona State University

Arizona State University is a public research university located in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area of the State of Arizona...

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External links

• The Knight Center for Specialized Journalism