Today in St. Louis at the conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, leading journalism schools shared the lessons of their transformation in a new book detailing the successes of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education. The 132-page report, produced by the Joan Shorenstein Center at Harvard, details major changes at the initiative’s 12 […]
Arizona Republic picks up major’News21 transportation safety story over the weekend, starting it on’the front page, with two full pages of coverage inside the newspaper.’ Chilling story of a tour bus operator’who avoids fallout from a’crash that killed passengers and’failed inspections’by’”reincarnating”‘under different company names and continuing to’obtain federal permits to operate. News21, a national university […]
The nonprofit ProPublica has won its second Pulitzer Prize in as many years for a series on Wall Street bankers who sought to enrich themselves at the expense of clients and at times their own firms. Reporters Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein uncovered the scandal, exposing some of the practices that ultimately worsened the financial crisis. Paul Steiger […]
Yesterday Times Higher Education, the educational publication of the Times of London, reported the ‘reboot’ of journalism education in the United States touching on some of the most pressing, and exciting, issues regarding the future of the news industry and what it means for aspiring journalists. ‘The opportunities have never been greater. The risks are higher. […]
Ken Doctor, who writes well about Newsonomics, has taken apart the economics of a single investigative story with this report on the Nieman Lab site. He features a strong California Watch story about how state regulators have routinely failed to enforce earthquake safety laws for public schools, “allowing children and teachers to occupy buildings with structural flaws […]
U.C. Berkeley student journalist Ryan Phillips interviews a trucker at a stop in Arizona while on assignment for News21. School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and executive editor of News21. She was the lead editor on this summer’s investigative project on transportation safety, and wrote this post for KnightBlog. Five years […]
Check out today’s Washington Post and msnbc.com: student reporters and investigative journalists have teamed up for two new stories on transportation safety in an unprecedented national reporting project. Federal recommendations on avoiding plane crashes often go ignored, according to one article. Another reports that America’s highways are more dangerous due to lax medical certification for […]
Student News21 teams are getting their work published in national papers. ‘Outlets like the Washington Post and New York Times are running stories, photos and video from the students who are part of’the program revitalizing journalism education at 12 universities. Just last week, Columbia’s News21 team’s work was featured in the Washington Post.’ Fellows produced […]
News21 launched a web-based resource center to share tools colleges and universities can use to advance the way they teach journalism. Resources include class syllabi and materials from the 12 participating universities, as well as training sessions and guidance on encouraging innovation. News21 is a program of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism […]
Poynter’s News University now has more than 150,000 registered users. It’s easy to see why:’ NewsU offers affordable self-paced online courses to enhance professional skills in journalism, management and advertising. Titles range from ‘Advice for the Newly Named News Director‘ to ‘Video Storytelling for the Web,’ and more than a hundred courses are free. For […]
Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Michael Vitez says that being a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan taught him storytelling skills, which he used to write a series of articles on end-of-life issues that won a Pulitzer Prize. Knight-Wallace Fellows spend eight months living and studying in Michigan. Director Charles Eisendrath leads the group and helps […]
Congratulations to David Kempa, a Carnegie-Knight News21 reporter from Arizona State University who won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in the college print category. Kempa’s story ‘Crossing Lines,’ illustrates one man’s goal to help impoverished Mexican farmers. This is the second consecutive year a student at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism wins the […]
Four journalists from the University of Maryland completed a month long study of racial and ethnic trends. The study was done by interviewing multiracial Americans who shared stories on what it means to identify as a mixed race in America. These four reporters were part of News21, a national journalism program funded by the Knight […]
The results are in. News21 has released the alumni report update for its 2009 fellows. Of the 94 fellows that completed the program, 52 (55.3 percent) are working full time.’ This includes three freelancers/independent journalists who report full-time work. Of the 52 full-time workers, 87 percent report working for media companies or in communications jobs. […]
Google CEO Eric Schmidt speaks to the American Society of News Editors on April 11, 2010 in Washington, D.C. In Washington D.C., a convention of leading newspaper editors is underway that in very few ways resembles such gatherings of the past. 2010’s ‘News Now Ideas Summit‘ features more than 20 Knight Foundation grantees on the […]
