Congratulations are in order for junior student Tim Devaney, Cornerstone journalism major, who hails from the state of Maine by way of Michigan, who has been accepted for admission into the World Journalism Institute, which will run for three weeks this coming May in New York.

Tim, who has been Herald sports editor this semester, recently shared news of his acceptance to this program:

According to Wikipedia, “The World Journalism Institute (WJI) was founded by Robert Case II in 1999 … is an independent journalism school whose mission is to recruit, equip, place and encourage journalists who are Christians in the mainstream newsrooms of America. In 1998, Marvin Olasky (World magazine editor), Nick Eicher, and Robert Case II discussed the possibility of establishing an independent school of journalism with Joel Belz, publisher of World magazine. The institute is currently the largest independent school of journalism for Christian journalists in the U.S. and is headquartered in New York City on the campus of The King’s College.”

One of Tim Devaney’s instructors in New York City this May will be Russell Pulliam, associate editor of The Indianapolis Star, board member of World magazine and a regular instructor at the annual Cornerstone Journalism Institute summer camp for high schoolers (www.cornerstone.edu/events/cji).

Tim will be joining a group of WJI alumni, many of whom have gone on to do internships and/or work full-time at media companies such as these: FOX News, ABC (Los Angeles), St. Petersburg Times, Indianapolis Star, New York Daily News, Chattanooga Free Press, WLBT, World magazine, Newsday, Washington Times, NBC, MLB.com, MTV, Salem Broadcasting, Christianity Today, and Miami Herald.

Tim will be making a valuable investment of his time at the start of this summer when he takes advantage of this incomparable opportunity to hone his writing skills and strengthen his faith. Thanks to WJI scholarships, the cost to students is only $500 and even that fee is waived if a student can get a hometown newspaper to accept and publish freelance articles from the student that come out of the WJI experience.

I look forward to hearing from Tim Devaney when he returns from this challenging and existing opportunity to meld his faith and chosen profession of journalistic writing.

Alan Blanchard, associate professor,

is director of CU’s journalism dept. — www.cornerstone.edu/journalism