See Photos/Video from Groundbreaking
The Philip Merrill College of Journalism broke ground on Knight Hall on May 22. See photos and a video of the
ceremony here.
For all its stunning design and technological wizardry, the $30 million Knight Hall will also be a warm and vibrant place. It will be where ideas are shared and shaped, where new media and old media rub elbows, and professionals and students learn and interact on a daily basis.
Breaking ground this spring and opening late 2009, the new home for the Merrill College will bring all of its programs and centers under one roof. Its state-of-the-art classroom and news laboratory spaces will be springboards for the next generation of journalism leaders, and the third-floor professional training centers will be epicenters of media study and national advocacy.
Signature spaces will include: a two-story Great Hall; the Richard Eaton Broadcast Theater; the Edith Kinney Gaylord Journalism Resource Center; a multi-media “news bubble” lab; four 18-seat news labs; three seminar rooms; two 30-seat classrooms; the Gene Roberts Executive Board room; and multiple meeting spaces for formal and informal gatherings. It will truly be a space to launch the next era of news.
