Jason Randall, 26, places his mail-in ballot in a drop box outside the Lane County Elections Office in Eugene, Ore. Photo Credit: Michael Ciaglo/News21 A national, student-led investigative reporting project launched this week with an in depth look at voting rights across the country. Among its major findings: in-person voter impersonation on Election Day – […]
News21 fellow Joe Henke spends an afternoon reading through voting rights material. Photo by Lizzie Chen/News21. Journalism and communications schools need to recreate themselves if they are to succeed in playing their vital role as news creators and innovators, a group of foundations said in an open letter to university presidents. The foundations, all of […]
Above: Richard Gingras, head of Google News, speaks at TechRanking 2012. Photo Credit: Flickr user California Watch. At last week’s Chicago convention of journalism and “mass communication” educators, a letter from foundation representatives got a lot of attention. In my opinion, given the digital revolution, it was a rather tame observation. Funders said journalism education should 1. Speed up the pace […]
Above: Super PAC App. (Mandatory photo credit: Justin Adelson, MIT Sloan School of Management.) Even as the presidential race dominates the news, and we’re asked to vote on everything from mayor to mosquito control board, keeping up with the issues can be difficult. Even those keeping track are left to sort through the noise, sift […]
Related Link “Journalism funders call for ‘Teaching Hospital’ model of education” on Knight Blog by Eric Newton We represent foundations making grants in journalism education and innovation. In this new digital age, we believe the “teaching hospital” model offers great potential. At its root, this model requires top professionals in residence at universities. It also […]
Each year, with support from Knight and its partners, students in the News21 program study a topic in-depth during the spring seminar and follow with a 10-week reporting fellowship. Here, Kristin Gilger, associate dean at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, writes about this year’s expanded program. Above: Leonard Downie Jr. […]
Along with Jerry Ceppos, dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University, and others, I’ve argued that much of journalism and mass communication research is not as useful as it should be. So it seems only fair to note that some research is useful and much appreciated. Recently at the Harvard Faculty Club, at a […]
Above: A previous meeting of Knight Chairs and foundation staff in Austin, Texas. This weekend, the Knight Chairs in Journalism are meeting in Miami to discuss what they’ve done this past year, what they’re planning to do, and why. These are accomplished professionals with university tenure at two dozen campuses in the United States. They […]
News21 student journalist Tarryn Mento See related article in Nieman Journalism Lab by Eric Newton, Senior Adviser to the President: ‘Journalism schools can be leaders in innovation and the news’ The current listeriosis outbreak linked to tainted cantaloupe is the worst foodborne illness outbreak since 1998 – linked to 21 deaths in 11 states and an additional […]
Organoleptic Specialist Steven Angold inspects seafood at the FDA’s $40 million facility in Irvine, Calif. Photo: Kyle Bruggeman/News21 Earlier this week, Knight Foundation blogged about how the student-led News21 program published a major food safety investigation in The Washington Post and on MSNBC.com. MNSBC.com’s coverage continued with a story on how tainted seafood reaches U.S […]
This week, student journalists from five universities participating in the Carnegie-Knight News 21 program published a major national investigation into food safety in America. The investigation is getting prominent play in The Washington Post and on MSNBC.com. The series covers the dangers posed by seafood, how hundreds of millions of pounds of contaminated meat is approved for […]
Photo Credit: Sasha Chavkin/The New York World A new journalism site devoted to deepening public understanding of the ways city and state government shape life in New York City launched this week at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In its first week, The New York World broke a story about a city-chartered Brooklyn bus that segregates […]
Hello, welcome to @KnightFdn, Knight Foundation’s new way of bringing you brief updates about our efforts to foster informed & engaged communities. – More than 2,000 stories of black male leadership submitted as part of the @BMEchallenge campaign in #Detroit and #Philadelphia – News21 #journalism students launch major food safety investigation in @washingtonpost and […]
For local journalists, journalism students and communities, the Initiative for Investigative Reporting has been a win-win endeavor. The Knight-supported program, which pairs Northeastern University journalism students with community news organizations to produce local investigative news stories, has so far published 19 in-depth pieces. For students, the program provides the opportunity to collaborate with journalists and […]
Today Knight Foundation and Carnegie Corporation are announcing new support for News21 and the Carnegie Knight Initiative for the Future of Journalism Education that will take the project from a successful experiment to a field-wide initiative which any journalism or mass communication program can nominate students. News21 — the name stands for 21st Century news […]