OPINION:
A conservative journalism fellowship that places rising free-market-leaning opinion writers at the likes of The Washington Post and The Boston Globe? Say it ain’t so — but indeed it is.
The Fund for American Studies — which provides fellowships to train young journalists in the free-market, free-thinking and conservative ways to go — has launched a new Journalism Excellence Fellowship Program to place rising opinion writers at these two liberal-leaning newspapers.
And more of these traditionally left-leaning news organizations are similarly looking to bring in different voices — conservative voices — pro-America, pro-capitalist voices.
Call it a dawning of a new media day.
“It’s part of a broader trend in the media that says hey, we can’t just rely on one voice anymore,” said Ryan Wolfe, director of the TFAS Center for Excellence in Journalism.
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