The Donald Murray
Visiting Journalist Program

The Donald Murray Visiting Journalist Program brings accomplished alumni journalists back to the UNH campus for week-long residencies. The visiting journalist works with students and faculty, speaks in journalism classes, consults with the staff of the student newspaper and gives a public lecture. The program is named in honor of Donald Murray, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who started the UNH journalism program in 1963.

With hard work by Terry Williams '80 (publisher of The Telegraph of Nashua), Peter Watson (formerly of Essex County Newspapers) and others, and generous donations by alumni and the organizations that hire our grads, we've moved a long way toward our goal of establishing an endowment for the Donald Murray Visiting Journalist Program. But we're not there yet; we're still fundraising.

So . . . attention, journalism alumni. If you or your company is interested in contributing to the visiting journalist program, the Michael Kelly scholarship, or any other aspect of journalism at UNH, contact any of us on the journalism faculty or go directly to Jennifer Goldberg at the UNH Foundation. Or click here to make a gift online. On the online form under Designation, go to "other" and type in Donald Murray Visiting Journalist Fund, Michael Kelly Journalism Scholarship Fund, etc.

And of course if you'd like to be a visiting journalist on campus someday, please let the faculty know.

Natalie Jacobson, '65

"I'm very impressed with how much you know, how interested you are in journalism, and how passionate you are about being good at it. Journalism needs you; you are our future."

Natalie Jacobson '65, longtime Boston television news anchor, speaking to students during her week on campus as the 2008 Donald Murray Visiting Journalist. Watch for a Natalie Jacobson page on our site, coming soon.