NEA selects USC Annenberg for arts journalism institute
June 1, 2004
Updated November 18, 2016 5:38 p.m.
USC Annenberg will receive part of a $1 million National Endowment for the Arts grant to establish an arts journalism institute to focus on improving theater criticism. In 2005, USC Annenberg will welcome up to 30 arts journalists to campus for a two week program taught by veteran journalists, artists, and scholars. "First-rate arts criticism helps strengthen cultural institutions and the communities they serve," says USC Annenberg dean and award-winning playwright Geoffrey Cowan. "NEA's support of this unique program will make it possible for the USC Annenberg School to enrich the perspective that critics in every part of the country bring to their coverage of classical and modern theater." The program will be the School's fifth major mid-career education program for journalists, joining the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program, the California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship Program and the Institute for Justice and Journalism.
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