Three University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, Samantha Grove of Lincoln, Jordan Moore of Lincoln and Shelby Rickert of Beaver City were selected to participate in the 2024 Carnegie-Knight News21 Program hosted at Arizona State University.
The Carnegie-Knight News21 Program is a prestigious national reporting initiative headquartered at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. This program brings together top journalism students from across the United States to collaborate on in-depth multimedia projects for prominent media outlets like The Washington Post, NBC News, and USA Today.
Grove, a senior broadcasting, journalism and anthropology triple major, is looking forward to enhancing her storytelling and multimedia skills. She’s passionate about telling human stories and addressing complex subjects in a way that resonates with the broader public.
“My perspective as a media content developer and a journalist enables me to imagine the ways that multimedia can help better tell a story,” Grove said. “My passion is telling human stories, and being part of News21 will help me learn how to do that even better.”
Moore, a senior journalism major, discovered her passion for photography during high school. After taking her first photography class, her interest in visual storytelling led her to declare a major in journalism at the CoJMC.
“Going into college, I knew that I wanted to follow a career path that combined my love of taking photos with my curiosity to connect with members of my community,” Moore said. “Declaring my journalism major helped me realize that my greatest future aspiration is to be a writer and visual journalist.”
Shelby Rickert, a sophomore journalism major, is dedicated to sharing the human experience through journalism. Building on her foundational journalism skills, Rickert aims to tell more personal stories that provide readers with a closer look at broader subjects.
“The one thing I know I am meant to do is to share the human experience,” Rickert said. “I look forward to using these skills to zoom in on broad topics currently impacting people in the world by sharing personal experiences in authentic, accurate ways that resonate with the general public.”
This spring, the fellows will attend a weekly virtual seminar to get fully immersed in the topics they’ll be reporting on this summer. Starting in May, they will work with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and other media and communications experts for ten weeks at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication to produce news media projects that will be distributed nationally.
To learn more about the Carnegie-Knight News21 Program, visit https://news21.com/.
