Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (Medill ’97), a journalist, author and teacher, will start as the inaugural George R.R. Martin Chair in storytelling at Medill in September, Northwestern announced April 27. Tan will teach undergraduate and graduate students, organize writing panels and conferences for the greater NU community and lead the new George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive.
Journalist and media executive Alexis Grant (Medill M.S.J. ’05) has received the 2022 Medill and The Garage Media Entrepreneur Fellowship, the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications announced Nov. 1. Grant is the founder and current CEO of They Got Acquired, a news outlet that reports on online startup founders who sell their.
Medill’s newest scholarship for graduate students dedicated to social justice reporting honors renowned journalist Darran Simon (Medill ’04), who died in April 2020. The Darran Simon Memorial Scholarship will have a fund of $100,000 and be awarded yearly to a Medill graduate student, in perpetuity. The scholarship was founded after classmates reached out to Medill.