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Carey Institute's journalism program on indefinite hiatus

Nov 07, 2022 12:30 am

Noah Zweifel reports in The Altamont Enterprise that the Logan Nonfiction Program offered by the Carey Institute for Global Good in Rensselaerville has gone on hiatus, owing to what are reported to be financial difficulties, according to a statement published on the program’s website. The program is a fellowship for long-form journalists funded by the Logan Family Foundation. “At this time, we have made the difficult decision to take a pause as we reimagine what the Logan Nonfiction Program might look like in the future and reassess the financial sustainability of the high-quality experience we have offered since 2015,” the statement said. “As such, we will not be accepting any inquiries or applications for the fellowship in 2023...” The statement concluded by saying that organizers are "optimistic about a new future for the program.” Gareth Crawford, president of the Carey Institute, said the hiatus is indefinite but did not answer other questions about what changes led to this decision, whether it had anything to do with the attempts to sell the Carey property, and what the program’s absence means for the institute. The heads of the Logan program could not be reached for comment. The Logan Nonfiction Program was founded in 2015 and has offered 15 classes for journalism fellows since it began, and had started experimenting with remote and semi-remote workshops since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Read more at altamontenterprise [dot] com.