September 25 , 2006
Jerome Aumente, Rutgers University Professor Emeritus,
Conducts Journalism Workshops in Serbia
Jerome Aumente recently completed two weeks of reporting workshops for Serbian journalists on business, financial and economic reporting in Belgrade and Nis sponsored by the U.S. State Department, the American Embassy and the International Broadcasting Bureau-Voice of America.

January 27, 2006
Jerome Aumente, Rutgers University Professor Emeritus,
Develops Programs for Arab and American Journalists
Following a series of successful seminars he conducted in which top Arab and American journalists exchanged experiences in covering major international issues in Iraq and the Middle East, Jerome Aumente, Rutgers University Professor Emeritus is designing an Internet and Exchange program to build a permanent communication bridge among journalists and universities worldwide.

July 9 , 2005
Nancy Cherry Named Fifth New Jersey Media Group Fellow
Nancy Cherry, co-chief of The Record's News copydesk, has been selected as NJMG's next teaching fellow at Rutgers University. Nancy will start her fellowship in September, teaching a class in journalism and taking, for free, a class related to her work at The Record.

Feb. 11, 2005
The Dan Rather/Fox News Effect: What Local Newspaper Reporters & Editors Must Do To Cope With The Public’s Distrust of “The Media”
The public's growing perception of bias in the national media is trickling down to the community level and creating a new challenge for local newspaper reporters and editors, says Scott Muller, news editor atthe Herald News of Passaic County. Muller said the idea for his talk, to be on Feb. 16 at SCILS, came out his experience and conversations he's had over the years with colleagues covering local issues.

Nov. 30, 2004
Jan Barry Named North Jersey Media Group Journalist-in-Residence for Spring 2005 Semester at Rutgers
Staff writer for The Record Jan Barry has been named the North Jersey Media Group Journalist-in-Residence for Spring 2005. After serving in Vietnam, Barry became a peace activist and has had his poetry published in several publications. He is the author of Earth Songs: New & Selected Poems and A Citizen's Guide to Grassroots Campaigns. Barry will be teaching news reporting and writing at SCILS on Monday nights during the spring semester. More information on Barry can be found at http://www.janbarry.net/.

Aug. 31, 2004
Veteran Journalist Named Fellow for Fall Semester at Rutgers
Back-to-school season this year will find three North Jersey Media Group Daily Division staffers at the head of their classes – teaching them, that is. Scott Muller, news editor of the Herald News, was selected as the company’s Journalist-in-Residence at Rutgers University. Scott will teach an undergraduate journalism course at the New Brunswick campus and select a work-related course tuition-free.

April 22, 2004
Continuing Education Project for Journalists in South Africa Begins
Based on a recommendation from CNN South Africa bureau chief Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the Journalism Resources Institute is developing a Continuing Education Project for Journalists in South Africa that could lay a foundation for journalists from throughout Africa to participate in continuing education seminars and workshops.

March 5 , 2004
Child Health and Development Project Will Engage Trenton Teenagers as Fledgling Journalists and Communicators
An ambitious effort to provide all Trenton infants and young children with maximum health care in the crucial, early childhood development years--and to give newspaper and broadcast journalists additional background and skills to cover this important issue throughout New Jersey--enters a new training phase with a journalism skills workshop for Trenton high school students to help tell the story.

January 15, 2004
Flip Wilson Scholarship Winners Announced
Janine Brown and Marguerite Estephan are the first Rutgers University students to be awarded Flip Wilson Scholarships, a scholarship program created in June 2003 and offered at a small number of universities throughout the country.

December 11 , 2003
Davis Named 2004 North Jersey Media Group Journalist in Residence
Award-winning columnist Tom Davis has been selected as the spring 2004 "North Jersey Media Group Journalist in Residence" at Rutgers University. Davis was among several strong candidates at The Record who applied for the fellowship, which lasts a semester.

October 3, 2003
Aumente Named Program Evaluator for State Department Journalism Program in Russia
Jerome Aumente, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, has been selected as the program evaluator for a long-term project funded by the U.S. State Department in which University of Missouri School of Journalism and its counterpart, the School of Journalism at Moscow State University, will work together to modernize curricula, pursue joint research and faculty exchanges.

August 15, 2003
Journalism Resources Institute Launches Ethnic & Immigrant Media Project
The Ethnic Media Project’s first initiative was to hold an Ethnic Media Leadership Roundtable at Rutgers on July 15, 2003. The half-day session gathered more than a dozen editors and top executives from a variety of ethnic media outlets in New York and New Jersey.

June 2, 2003
Flip Wilson Scholarship Created at Rutgers
Rutgers is pleased to announce the creation of the Flip Wilson Scholarship for the study of journalism. Wilson, a New Jersey native, was an award-winning comedian who in 1970 won a Grammy for Best Comedy Recording for "The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress."

May 4, 2003
Jerome Aumente to Write Book for the New Jersey Press Association (NJPA) on History of Newspapers in New Jersey and NJPA Contributions
The New Jersey Press Association (NJPA) has commissioned Jerome Aumente to write a history of newspapers in New Jersey and the key activities of the association to mark the 150th anniversary of the NJPA in 2007.

May 1, 2003
Jackson Selected for Rutgers Fellowship
Veteran Trenton Correspondent Herb Jackson has been selected as the first “North Jersey Media Group Journalist in Residence” at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Herb was among five strong candidates at The Record who applied for the fellowship, which lasts a semester.

April 17, 2003
Seminars for Print and Broadcast Journalists on Covering Health and Childhood Development Launched by Children’s Futures
Covering childhood development, health and survival issues from prenatal through the crucially important toddler years will be the focus of an ongoing series of practical seminars for print and broadcast journalists in New Jersey sponsored by “Children’s Futures”, a nonprofit initiative in Trenton supported by a $20 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The continuing professional education series, which begins on June 19, is cosponsored by the New Jersey Press Association, the Rutgers University School of Communication, Information and Library Services (SCILS), and its Journalism Resources Institute (JRI).

April 17, 2003
Rutgers University, CIT Present Sixteenth Annual New Jersey Journalism Awards
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. April 17, 2003— The Department of Journalism and Media Studies of Rutgers University and CIT, the Livingston, New Jersey-based commercial and consumer finance company, presented the Sixteenth Annual Journalism Awards for Distinguished Business & Financial Reporting of New Jersey Issues on Thursday, April 10th, 2003. This year’s competition was as intense as ever, and judges had a difficult time deciding the winners among such a large number of deserving entries.