John Dotson Fellowship

The John L. Dotson Jr. Media Management Fellowship covers the cost of attending the Maynard Management @ Kellogg, offered by the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. The program is an intensive and enlightening four-week program for news and business-side managers in the newspaper industry. It is held at Northwestern University each summer, and the faculty includes professors at the university's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management as well as senior executives in the industry.

Maynard Management @ Kellogg offers one an in-depth view of the newspaper industry and the challenges facing the industry in addition to the opportunity to work closely with a diverse group of other high potential newspaper managers. A special component of the program are the field visits, at which teams of MM@K fellows spend four days at a paper and produce a research report.

John L. Dotson Jr. Media Management Fellowship

John L. Dotson Jr., publisher and president of the Akron Beacon-Journal and a longtime NAMME member and the former board chairman of the Maynard Institute, funds a fellowship to the Maynard Management @ Kellogg program. The John L. Dotson Jr. Media Management Fellowship is worth $12,000 and is available to NAMME members only. It covers tuition and housing for Maynard Management @ Kellogg plus travel to and from the field site. What's not covered is travel to and from Northwestern plus miscellaneous expenses. The newspapers of candidates for the Dotson Fellowship must agree to give the candidate the time off to attend the program.

The winner of the Dotson Fellowship is announced each spring during NAMME's Annual Awards Banquet.