McClatchy Co. pledges $600,000
to establish IFOI professorship
(January 12, 2004) The McClatchy Co. has pledged $600,000 to establish The McClatchy Professorship in International Freedom of Information, Dean Terry Hynes announced today. The pledge will be paid over three years, beginning this year. The McClatchy Co. has been a long-time champion of FOI in the U.S. and abroad. Members of the McClatchy family, have been personally involved in the Inter-American Press Association for decades, Hynes added.
In reviewing the proposal requesting the professorship, leaders of the company were especially impressed with the work of the Brechner Center and, more specifically, with Sandra Chance's efforts as the Center's executive director, to internationalize the Center's outreach, Hynes said. The professorship will give the Center and its executive director additional resources to achieve the internationalization goals. A holder of the professorship will not be named until the entire gift is received, probably early in 2006.
This professorship is similar to others in the college. It is a term professorship, consisting of three-year, renewable appointments, based on performance. Income from the endowment will include approximately $15,000/annually for the named professor to support a graduate assistant who will work with the professor on issues related to the purposes of the professorship. Remaining annual income will be available to the holder of the professorship for professional development (e.g. travel, purchase of professional materials) and other activities related to the purposes of the professorship.
The McClatchy Co. is California-based. Its core newspapers are the Fresno Bee and the Sacramento Bee. It owns other newspapers, especially in the Northwest, and Nando Media (a national internet publishing company) as well as The Newspaper Network (a national sales and marketing company).
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