Summer Fellowship for Innovative Journalism—Bruce Schimmel
Thanks to a gift from Bruce Schimmel '74 undergraduates in the College have a new learning opportunity through the Fellowship for Innovative Journalism. "I wanted to give back to a place that really inspired me to do well," says Schimmel of his motivation for establishing the award. "As an undergraduate, I was given tremendous freedom to do all kinds of things—but my professors always demanded first-rate, quality work." In keeping with those standards, the award is, in his view, "an opportunity for excellence."
Bruce Schimmel is the founding publisher of the alternative weekly, the Philadelphia City Paper. As editor emeritus, he currently writes the column, "Loose Canon," which in 2006 won 2nd place statewide in the Keystone Press Awards , and placed 3rd in the Society of Professional Journalists, Keystone State Professional Chapter. Schimmel founded the Philadelphia City Paper in 1981. City Paper is now the region's most widely read weekly, with an audited readership of 450,000. In 1995, Schimmel launched City Paper Interactive, Philadelphia's first on-line newspaper and internet community bulletin board.
Schimmel has produced regular cultural and enterprise radio pieces for WSCL-FM (NPR affiliate, Salisbury MD). As Project Director of "Life on Delmarva," he produced a 75-part series of audio portraits, underwritten by the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Delaware Humanities Council. "Life on Delmarva" received a 2003 Golden Reel award from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. In 2003, he started Sonic Squad, a radio reporting project for children in rapidly developing rural Delaware. Schimmel is currently producing an audio history project called "Show and Tell" for the Milton (DE) Historical Society.
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215-923-7978