The POLITICO Journalism Institute graduated a dozen students last Friday, marking a new effort to diversify the pipeline of young journalists who aspire to cover politics and government.
POLITICO partnered with the Maynard Institute and American University to create the program. Support for the program came from the Knight Foundation.
"Diverse talent; one purpose," is how Melhor Marie Leonor, a multimedia journalist and a rising senior at Florida International University, summed up the ten-day program.
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