ABC News Summer Institute

The Summer Institute at ABC News was inaugurated in 2005 as a lead-off program for the Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education.

Each of the five higher education institutions participating in the initiative selected two of their top students to participate in the 2005 summer institute, which took place over an 8-week period at ABC News' Investigative Reporting Bureau in New York City. The lead reporter in the unit is Brian Ross and the executive producer is Rhonda Schwartz. Nicole Gallagher, Director, News Practices, was the executive in charge of this summer institute.

The ten students had the opportunity to experience and observe all the constellations of the ABC Network from World News Tonight to ABC Radio to abcnews.com. They were trained in ABC News ethics and procedures and on digital equipment that permits both taping and editing of news material. Students did significant research for the ABC News investigative unit on a major probe of nuclear safety on college campuses. That project, “Loose Nukes,” was the result of a four month investigation.

The 10 students, Carnegie Fellows, traveled the country to test security at 25 campus nuclear reactors, recording their findings with tourist cameras. The entire ABC News investigation can be viewed at :
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/LooseNukes/

You can read stories by each of the 10 fellows at: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/LooseNukes/story?id=1221204

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