Five New Fellows selected for Ted Scripps Program

By Wendy Redal

The Center for Environmental Journalism will welcome five new Ted Scripps Fellows this summer. The Fellows were selected from among a talented pool of national applicants. Their backgrounds are in print, radio and TV broadcasting and multimedia, and they hail from across the country. The five will arrive in Boulder in August to commence a year of study at the University of Colorado, enhanced by the regular seminars and field trips that are a hallmark of the Fellowship program.

The new Fellows include Eric Frankowski , assistant city editor at the Longmont, Colo. Daily Times-Call; Alex Markels, a freelance journalist and former Wall Street News reporter who covers a wide array of topics for many major national publications from his home in Minturn, Colo.; Kim McGuire, environment reporter at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Vicki Monks, a multi-media freelancer from Santa Fe, N.M., who works as a writer, reporter, photographer and radio and TV producer on global environment topics; and Jeff Young, news bureau chief at West Virginia Public Broadcasting in Charleston, W. Va.

This is the seventh class of Fellows hosted by the University of Colorado-based program. The Ted Scripps Fellowships are funded by a grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation.