Just wanted to be sure everyone saw this exciting news as reported by Business First of Columbus:
Fox News CEO funding new Ohio U. newsroom
Business First of Columbus
Ohio University has landed a donation from Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger E. Ailes that will finance most of a planned $560,000 newsroom.
The university said Wednesday that Ailes, a 1962 OU alumnus, donated an undisclosed amount to the Scripps College of Communication. Spokeswoman Jennifer Bowie said Ailes isn't releasing to the public the amount of the gift, but added it funds the "majority" of the newsroom's cost.
The current newsroom for students in the broadcast sequence of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, an arm of the communication college, is a little over 1,100 square feet and is housed in the basement of the school's building. The new facility, set to open in early 2008, will double the newsroom's size by moving to the third floor of the Radio-Television Building across campus. The school's broadcast students will share use with telecommunications students, in addition to the local WOUB Center for Public Media radio station.
The newsroom is a small part of a planned $34.4 million integrated communication facility for the college, which has more than 2,300 students, more than 10 percent of OU's 20,225-student population. That project is a new building that will have more than 118,000 square feet of assignable space, joining the adjacent, vacated former student union with the Radio-Television Building. The project is set for completion in 2012.
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