The Scripps Howard Foundation has given the University of Tennessee half a million dollars to build a new media laboratory on the campus in Knoxville, according to PR Newswire. UT's College of Communication and Information in Knoxville will manage the lab.




The new lab will be the Scripps Convergence Communication and Information Laboratory. The lab is intended to help students train for work in the media industry. UT hopes to begin building the lab in the summer of 2008. It will be located on the fourth floor of the campus's Communications Building.

The Scripps Howard Foundation is the philanthropic arm of The E. W. Scripps Company. Both the Knoxville News Sentinel and Scripps Networks operate out of Knoxville. Scripps Networks is home to a number of cable channels, including the Food Network and Great American Country.