Three journalists will set aside their daily deadlines in order to hone their understanding of legal affairs at the Law School as recipients of the Knight Fellowships in Law for Journalists for the 20022003 academic year.
The fellows are Luiza Chwialkowska of the National Post; Charles Savage of The Miami Herald; and Dean Smith of The Charlotte Observer.
Chwialkowska has been a reporter for the National Post newspaper in Ottowa, Canada, since 1998. Her last assignment was as Parliamentary bureau reporter in Ottawa, where she handled daily and feature coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada and the federal Justice Department; periodic economic and social policy reporting; and foreign assignments at the G-8 Summit 2000 in Japan, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the United Nations. Prior to that, she was a national news reporter in the paper's Toronto office.
Savage has been a staff writer with The Miami Herald in Florida since 1999. His most recent assignments included covering Miami-Dade County Public Schools (the nation's fourth-largest school district), the Florida legislature and Broward County government. He was also part of reporting teams covering the Elián Gonzalez story, for which the paper's staff won a 2001 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news; the 2000 presidential election and the Florida recount; and a reconstruction of the lives of the Sept. 11 hijackers who trained in south Florida.
Smith, assistant national editor at The Charlotte Observer in North Carolina, has been with the newspaper since 1990. He began as a reporter covering money management, nonprofits and other business issues. He later edited the paper's Sunday Arts & Books section, and currently concentrates on overseas and business news, including coordinating coverage of the Enron situation. Since 1999, he has also been the Carolinas stringer for The New York Times. In 19951996, during a leave from the Observer, he wrote for and helped edit Europ, a bilingual political quarterly in Paris.
The Knight Fellowship program brings mid-career journalists to Yale Law School for an academic year to take courses and participate in seminars and other activities that will improve their understanding of legal and policy issues in order to enhance their legal reporting. Fellows who complete the course of study earn the degree of Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.).
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