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The NJC now has only two staff: Grubbs and [[Mark LaRochelle]]is NJC's associate editor and webmaster. [[Kelly Harris]], who has carriage for fundraising from foundations a fundraiser for the [[Young America's Foundation]], also is has been listed as Associate Director of the NJC.
added mention of Grubbs firing
Founded by conservative journalist [[M. Stanton Evans]] in 1977, the '''National Journalism Center''' (NJC) is, in the words of current former director Ken Grubbs, Jr., "a juggernaut for creating journalists." The NJC provides training and assistance in finding jobs to conservative journalists and has long-standing ties to the tobacco industry.
==History==
[http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/fyi35c00]
According to a guide to right wing groups on universities, the NJC "is a product of the American Conservative Union." [http://www.qrd.org/qrd/religion/anti/UCP/POLITICS.TXT]The NJC operated as a project of the Educational Research Institute, headed by Evans, which received funds for the NJC.
==='''The National Journalism Center and Philip Morris'''===
Until recently, the NJC was directed by [[M. Stanton Evans]], who also edited [[Consumers' Research]] (NJC). Major changes followed Evans' departure with the organisation being "taken over" as a project of the [[Young America's Foundation]], with [[Tom Phillips]] the chairman of [[Human Events]] parent company, chairing the new board of governors. [http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=2028]
In September 2002, Evans retired and was replaced by [[Kenneth E. Grubbs, Jr.]][http://nationaljournalismcenter.org/] In July 2004, however, Grubbs was fired after criticizing the ''Washington Times'' regarding its coverage of a bizarre event when the the Rev. [[Sun Myung Moon]], who owns the ''Times'', proclaimed himself the Messiah, declared that Marx, Lenin, Hitler and Stalin had converted to his religion in the "spirit world," and then had himself crowned by a congressman. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A60670-2004Jul18]
==NJC alumni==
*“[http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/neu27d00 Proactive media relations: the Borelli formula]”, Bates No 2072927845/7848, August 1997 (estimated date), page 2.
*Joseph A. D'Agostino, “[http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=2028 Conservative Spotlight: National Journalism Center]”, Oct 9, 2003(D'Agostino is the Associate Editor of Human Events, a conservative online journal with close ties to the NJC).
*Media Transparency, “[http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/info_on_any_recipient.php?254 The National Journalism Center], accessed November 29, 2003.
*Howard Kurtz, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A60670-2004Jul18 The Ordinary American, Under Stress and Oversimplified]," ''Washington Post'', July 19, 2004, describes the firing of NJC director Ken Grubbs, Jr.
