About the Gallivan Journalism Program
Overview
The Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Demcracy offers a minor or concentration for students interested in becoming journalists at print, broadcast, or online news organizations. Requirements of the Gallivan Program include successful completion of five courses focusing on journalism and a professional news internship during either the academic year or a summer.
History
Begun in 1997 with a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and now supported with endowments created by the family of John W. Gallivan, this Program combines professional training in journalistic skills along with examination of the social, political, economic, and ethical concerns related to the practice of journalism. The distinctive nature of Notre Dame’s “interdisciplinary approach” was described in the Columbia Journalism Review article “Searching for the Perfect J-School” (November/December 2002), and the Gallivan Program’s initiative to support summer internships was discussed in the American Journalism Review report “Priceless?” (April/May 2009).
Administration
The director of the Gallivan Program is Professor Robert Schmuhl, Walter H. Annenberg-Edmund P. Joyce Chair in American Studies and Journalism. An Advisory Committee of Notre Dame graduates in journalism helps guide the Program, meeting annually to discuss the curriculum and other initiatives.
Members of the Gallivan Program Advisory Committee include Tom Bettag, former Senior Executive Producer of the ABC News program “Nightline”; Sarah Childress, Africa correspondent, The Wall Street Journal; Bill Dwyre, Sports Columnist, Los Angeles Times; John W. Gallivan, former Chairman of the Board of Kearns-Tribune Corporation and Publisher Emeritus of the Salt Lake Tribune; Claire Heininger, Statehouse Reporter, The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.); Monica Yant Kinney, Metro Columnist, The Philadelphia Inquirer; John McMeel, Chairman, Andrews McMeel Universal; Bill Mitchell, Leader of News Transformation and International Programs, Poynter Institute for Media Studies; Anne Thompson, Chief Environmental Correspondent, NBC News, and Kelley Tuthill, Reporter/Anchor, WCVB-TV, Boston, MA.
