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Columbia Universityâs Graduate School of Journalism has announced that CBS will honor the memory of broadcast giant, former CBS News president and Columbia professor Fred W. Friendly, by establishing a scholarship program at Columbia and supporting an industry-wide effort to endow a new faculty position focusing on the media and society.

ãWe are honored that CBS has chosen to celebrate Fred Friendlyâs distinguished career by encouraging the next generation of journalists and supporting exceptional teaching,ä said Journalism Dean Tom Goldstein. ãThis gift will ensure Fredâs legacy at Columbia, where he taught and inspired young journalists to attain high standards of ethical public service.ä

A portion of the gift will help endow the Fred W. Friendly Professorship in Media and Society, a new faculty position at the School. The remainder will create and support scholarships for five promising students enrolled in the broadcast concentra tion at the Journalism School for each of the next five years. The first CBS/Fred Friendly Scholars began their studies in September, and will meet with CBS News President Andrew Heyward and other CBS News correspondents and executives during the semeste r.

ãFred holds a special place in the history of CBS News and we are proud to honor his many contributions by supporting the endowment and creating a scholarship program that will engage students, faculty and broadcast journalism professionals in an o n-going examination of our business and its responsibilities,ä Mr. Heyward said. ãWe look forward to meeting the first CBS/Fred Friendly Scholars. Their backgrounds are very impressive.ä

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The 1998 CBS/Fred Friendly Scholars are:

• LaNeice Collins, a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, holds a degree in mass communications and American studies. She has worked as an intern with ABC Newsâ Nightline and the FOX News affiliate KTVU. She has written fo r the Daily Californian, focusing on relations between the Berkeley campus and the nationâs capital, and holds the rank of specialist in the California Army National Guard, where she contributes to its monthly newsletter.
• Dalia Dangerfield graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in broadcast journalism and international relations. She has covered housing and homeless issues at the Chicago Defender newspaper, was a repor ter and co-producer for CNNâs Emmy Award-winning newscast Impact, and has interned at the Orange County News Channel, KCBS-TV, KABC-TV and E! Entertainment Television.
• Kerry Donahue received a B.A. in English literature from Oberlin College and was a reporter, engineer and guest host of WMPG-FMâs award-winning public affairs call-in radio show Big Talk. Donahue provided case management services to men tally ill adults at a residential center in Portland, Maine, and was a volunteer coordinator at Caring Unlimited, a domestic violence program in Sanford, Maine.
• Marcia Feaster received a degree in television production from Howard University and interned on NBCâs Meet the Press. She has worked at several Washington, D.C., law firms and served as a peer counselor/educator for victims of sexual abuse and substance abuse.
• Joshua Holbreich received his B.A. in English from Cornell University, where he was an arts and entertainment editor and writer for the Cornell Daily Sun. He worked at the William Morris Agency, assisting agents representing authors of fantasy, science fiction and mass-market thrillers. He also interned at ABC Newsâ World News Tonight ,PrimeTime Live , and Entertainment Weekly magazine.

Fred Friendly, well known as the producer of Edward R. Murrowâs See It Now series in the 1950s and as the president of CBS News in the 1960s, died earlier this year. He created and hosted the Seminars on Media and Society broadcast on PBS when he was a professor at Columbiaâs Graduate School of Journalism. The popular programs challenged leaders÷including prominent journalists, judges and government officials÷to grapple with national issues and media ethics.  He was widely regarded as an exemplar of integrity in television news who encouraged the broadcasting industry to accept its responsibility to educate society.

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