Media Advisory: WHYY to Open Community News Bureau in Dover, Delaware with Initial $1 Million Grant from The Longwood Foundation

Media Advisory: WHYY to Open Community News Bureau in Dover, Delaware with Initial $1 Million Grant from The Longwood Foundation

WHAT: WHYY, the only television station with a nightly news program dedicated to covering the First State, received a $1 million grant from the Longwood Foundation to open a community news bureau in Dover that will enhance news, information, and arts and culture coverage as well as educational outreach. Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner and WHYY President and CEO William J. Marrazzo will announce the first phase of the multi-million dollar project. The grant will enable WHYY to outfit a multi-media facility with state-of-the-art technology. It will also broaden the content of WHYY's nightly newscast, WHYY Delaware Tonight.

The location of the bureau, yet to be determined, will be near Legislative Hall, providing ongoing coverage of the political process, news and issues as they unfold. WHYY plans to open the bureau in the spring of 2006.

WHO: Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner and WHYY President and CEO William J. Marrazzo.

WHEN: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 2:00 p.m.

WHERE: Delaware Public Archives, 121 Duke of York Street, Dover, DE 19901. Press Conference located in Delaware Room.

BACKGROUND: The Longwood Foundation, founded in 1937 by Pierre S. du Pont, supports a wide variety of non-profit organizations, primarily in Delaware. The Foundation, which principally funds capital projects, supports education, health and human services, arts, environment and numerous civic-related organizations.

CONTACT: Daneil Mazone +1-215-351-3316, dmazone@whyy.org

PRNewswire -- June 28

Source: WHYY

Web site: http://www.whyy.org/

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