Microsoft Corp. today joined the National Newspaper Publishers Association and Howard University Department of Journalism in launching the Converged Media Lab housed at the university. The new lab combines broadcast, print, advertising and public relations studies and provides one of the most advanced converged journalism curricula available at a historically black college or university.
"This exciting partnership merges Howard University's journalism classroom with the NNPA's newsroom," said George Curry, editor in chief of the NNPA's electronic news wire service, BlackPressUSA.com. "The lab provides students with the experience of writing for a national news outlet that reaches more than 200 Black newspapers and 15 million readers. Students will come to the lab to put into practice what they've learned in the classroom."
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