Four University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications students have been selected for the ABC News on Campus program.
- Emily Ingram, bureau chief. Ingram is a news-editorial and advertising double major and expects to graduate in May 2010. She has worked for the Lincoln Journal-Star, the Daily Nebraskan and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. This summer she will work for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- Elicia Dover. Dover is a broadcasting and news-editorial double major and expects to graduate in May 2010. She has worked for Fox News in New York, Fox 16 News in Little Rock, Ark., Husker Vision and the Daily Nebraskan.
- Brandi Kruse. Kruse is a broadcasting major and expects to graduate in May 2010. She has worked as a reporter and anchor for KFOR radio in Lincoln and as an intern at both NET and KOLN/KGIN TV in Lincoln.
- Alina Selyukh. Selyukh is a broadcasting and news-editorial double major and expects to graduate in May 2010. She has worked for NationalJournal.com in Washington, D.C., CNN in Moscow, the Daily Nebraskan and was an intern at NET in Lincoln and RIO TV in Samara, Russia.
Established in September 2008, ABC News on Campus is a partnership between the network's news division and the nation's leading journalism schools. (Check out the site at abcnews.go.com/oncampus)
Modeled on a network news bureau, the college bureaus are fully equipped with state-of-the-art camera equipment, computers and edit software.
Under the program, students will have the opportunity to report on stories and produce a wide array of content for ABC News digital and broadcast platforms. These college digital bureaus will extend the newsgathering reach of ABC News throughout the country. In addition, they will enable ABC News to nurture bright, beginning journalism students, give them hands-on training from some of the most seasoned news professionals in the business. Students will spend 15-20 hours a week on ABC work.
Journalism professor Kathy Christensen will serve as the faculty adviser for the program.
UNL joins ABC News on Campus bureaus established at Arizona State University, University of Florida, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Texas at Austin and Syracuse University.