Nominate a South Florida journalist for the Esserman-Knight Journalism Awards! I have learned quickly one of the realities of philanthropy: You cannot fund every idea you like. In fact, you can’t fund most ideas you like. Even foundations with substantial endowments have limits on what they can spend in a given year and, to be most effective, […]
In a year full of intense news cycles, Americans’ media diets have fluctuated dramatically. Current attention levels to local news are at a three-year low after peaking during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic. With national politics dominating the agenda in recent months, attention to local news has faded. However, local outlets have largely […]
Journalism is ripe for reinvention. The right journalism schools can become engines that drive innovation. Creative minds at forward-facing research universities can rise to the challenge of renewing the role of journalism in society. Take those three statements, sprinkle on what I say below, and you’ll see why I’ve decided that Arizona State University’s Cronkite […]
Gun Wars: A News21 investigation of rights and regulations in America from News21. The telling of a story is no longer simply a story, but journalism woven with a richness that cannot be captured in words alone. In this year’s Carnegie-Knight News21 project “Gun Wars,” an investigation of gun rights and regulations, we challenged fellows […]
Veterans wait for disability checks as VA struggles to reduce backlog from News21 on Vimeo. Len Downie is the Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and a vice president at large of The Washington Post. In a significant example of the continuing impact of the 2012 […]
Almost every commencement speaker urges graduates to change the world. Knight Foundation President Alberto Ibargüen went further in addressing Arizona State University journalism graduates, not only urging them to disrupt the status quo but offering money to help. Ibargüen, addressing 255 graduating students of ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, announced a $250,000 grant […]
Four Women, Four Stories from News21 on Vimeo. Post-9/11 veterans commit suicide at nearly twice the rate of civilians. That revelation tops the list of issues revealed in an in-depth report published this week by News21, a national, student-led investigative reporting effort. It also revealed long waits for benefits, high rates of unemployment and other […]
Knight Foundation asked the students, educators and professionals who beta tested our new digital teaching tool, “Searchlights and Sunglasses,” for their five favorite lessons. The book explores the digital transformation of journalism, and with one click turns into a classroom tool, offering a learning layer with 1,000 lesson plans and resources for educators. We will […]
News 21, an investigative project by students administered by Arizona State University and supported by Knight Foundation, recently published “Back Home: The Enduring Battles Facing Post-9/11 Veterans.” Below, Jessica Wilde, one of 26 student journalists from 12 universities who participated in the project, writes about her experience as part of the reporting team. Above: A […]
Today, Knight Foundation launched a new digital book and teaching tool, Searchlights and Sunglasses. Here author Eric Newton kicks off a series on how students, educators and professional journalists can use the book. We hope our newly launched Searchlights and Sunglasses demonstrates the power of digital books and teaching tools not just to teachers but to students, professors, […]
The following blog post is written by Patricia Thomas, the Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism at the University of Georgia. Above: University of Georgia graduate students Alicia Smith, Julianne Wyrick and Jodi Murphy. In my early days as a health journalist, the biggest story of the day was the AIDS crisis. Today, it’s the conflict […]
As Knight folks head to Phoenix, Ariz. to announce the News Challenge: Mobile winners at Arizona State University on Thursday, we took some time to talk with Jacquee Petchel, the new executive editor of News 21. Based at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, the program brings together talented journalism students and pairs them with working journalists to report and produce report […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Jacquee Petchel will work with a new all-star team of students at Arizona State University to produce next year’s investigative reporting for News21, the student journalism demonstration project that drew more than 7 million page views and 18,000 comments on this year’s Voter Fraud package. Petchel brings to her newly announced role […]
What has people across the country talking? A student-run news project drawing on public records. The journalists with News 21 produced a series on voting rights that generated nearly six million page views. Their next mission – making the data they used for the story more accessible by launching a new e-book. While the issue of voter-fraud fueled political debate […]
Photo: Hundreds of thousands of voters took part in the June 5, 2012, Gov. Scott Walker recall election in Wisconsin. Many of them, including these voters at Rufus King High School in north Milwaukee, faced long lines. Photo by AJ Vicens/News21 Related “Milwaukee Electon Observers earn mixed reviews” by AJ Vicens on “Who Can Vote?”, a […]