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Nicholas School Launches Environmental Media Fellows Program

This fall the Nicholas School launched the Nicholas Environmental Media Fellows, an exciting new program that brings up to four established environmental journalists to the Duke University campus yearly for month-long sessions.

The program is set up in conjunction with the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy's Media Fellows Program, which has brought more than 600 international journalists to campus during its 24-year history at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy.

The first fellow, Ann Kellan, an on-air personality and science correspondent for CNN for more than 10 years, devoted her time at the Nicholas School to interviewing faculty and students to gain a better understanding of key environmental issues and how best to promote them to news gatekeepers.

She also spent a week in Beaufort learning about the Duke Marine Lab, and served as keynote speaker for Hindsight is 20/20, a program in which Nicholas School alumni share advice and discuss their career decisions and experiences with current students.

Science and nature writer Michael Tennesen is visiting Duke this spring as the Nicholas Fellow and as the science writer-in-residence for the Center on Global Change.He is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Global Warming. Visit our media fellows site at www.nicholas.duke.edu/media/fellows.

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