Join us for Groundbreaking on May 22
The Philip Merrill College of Journalism is breaking ground on its new home, the John S. and James L. Knight Hall, on Thursday, May 22 at 2 p.m. The event will be held on the building's future site, which is currently Lot A next to Tawes Theater along Lot 1. Faculty, students and friends are invited to join us for a small reception after the ceremony. Please let us know if you will be able to attend by sending an e-mail to
our reservations office.
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.
