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YAF’s National Journalism Center Names New Director

By

Spencer Brown

November 11, 2024

Young America’s Foundation (YAF) is thrilled to announce Geoffrey Ingersoll as the new director of its National Journalism Center (NJC), effective December 4, 2024.

“Geoffrey Ingersoll is a fearless leader ready to continue developing young journalists into truth-seeking, power-questioning, narrative-disrupting reporters through YAF’s National Journalism Center,” underscored YAF President Governor Scott Walker. “His experience and background uniquely position him to recruit, train, and inspire a rising generation of intrepid journalists who will contribute vital information to key stories and the national conversation throughout their careers.”

Ingersoll is an alumnus of Penn State University and New York University’s graduate journalism program. He served in the United States Marines from 2005 until his honorable discharge in 2009 after active service in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Before his current role as editor in chief of the Daily Caller, Ingersoll worked at the Daily Caller News Foundation, Marine Corps Times, Business Insider, CNN, and New York Daily News. His reporting has taken him to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

“After eight years as editor in chief of the Daily Caller, leading its tremendous and fearless journalists into the center of every news cycle, it’s time for a different, but nevertheless important mission,” Ingersoll emphasized. “The National Journalism Center at Young America’s Foundation is the Conservative Movement’s premier journalism recruitment and training program, and as its new director, I’m excited to lead it into the future. Now more than ever, people need voices they can trust, and I’m certain in the years to come more of those voices will have NJC in their history,” he added.

Since its founding by the renowned M. Stanton Evan’s in 1977, NJC has trained generations of aspiring journalists in the values of responsible, balanced, and accurate reporting. Through intensive 12-week sessions, NJC provides each class with paid internships in the nation’s capital that combine on-the-job training in newsrooms with weekly seminars featuring briefings with distinguished journalists, public policy experts, and lawmakers.

Visit NJC.YAF.org to learn more about the program or apply for the upcoming spring and summer terms. 

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