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 […]
Article · February 17, 2012 by Eric Newton
Jeff Jarvis, along with students and faculty at the opening of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism in New York City. Over the past week, I’ve written about the steady stream of books written by Knight journalism and media innovation partners. Here’s the third and for the time being final batch of highlights: · Jeff […]
Article · February 15, 2012 by Eric Newton
News University celebrates its 100th webinar. Photo credit: Kenny Irby / The Poynter Institute Last week, I wrote about the steady stream of books by Knight Foundation journalism and media innovation partners. Here are some more highlights: · Steve Brill’s latest book, Class Warfare, focuses on a La Brea Tar Pit of public policy, our […]
Article · February 13, 2012 by Eric Newton
There’s a steady stream of books being written by Knight Foundation journalism and media innovation partners. Today, the hottest best-seller among them; next week, the rest: · Walter Issacson’s latest biography of an American giant, this time Steve Jobs, is a must-read for anyone trying to understand the complex, fast-moving psychology of Silicon Valley. In designing […]
Article · February 10, 2012 by Eric Newton
Miami’s winter holiday breezes are usually refreshing, but this year, particularly so, thanks to a discussion paper we saw in December from Melanie Sill for the University of Southern California. Finally, influential journalists are talking more seriously about a basic question of the digital age: How can they go beyond just informing communities to actually engage […]
Article · January 31, 2012 by Eric Newton
(Below are excerpts from an Oct. 14, 2011 talk in Vienna, Austria, by Eric Newton, Knight Foundation’s Senior Adviser to the President, before the World Editors Forum at the annual meeting of the World Association of Newspapers.) Despite my appearance, please let me assure you: I am not Father Christmas. Today I feel more like […]
Article · January 3, 2012 by Eric Newton
(Eric Newton, senior adviser to the president at Knight Foundation, presented an adapted version of this text to students and faculty at Arizona State University on Nov. 14 as a Hearst Visiting Professional. A slide show accompanies this talk, and an asterisk appears when slides change.) “A History of the Future of News: What 1767 […]
Article · November 15, 2011 by Eric Newton
Dori Maynard congratulates MediaNews on saving the Oakland Tribune after Martin Reynolds, left, explained the paper’s new media labs — Photograph courtesy Elisabeth Pinio As I blogged, the nation’s second-largest newspaper group, MediaNews, was set on Nov. 2 to kill the Tribune. I didn’t get it. MediaNews got big through “clustering” Buy papers next to each other; Retain their names and […]
Article · October 30, 2011 by Eric Newton
Today, Knight Foundation is gathering a group of media thought leaders for a discussion about new ways for people to participate in elections through digital tools and content. Follow the conversation via #knightelect. Traditional news media have made a destructive mistake by encouraging anonymous commenting on their web sites. But it’s not too late to […]
Article · October 28, 2011 by Eric Newton
Matt Stempeck, research assistant at the MIT Center for Civic Media, recently asked the question: “What If We Had a Nutrition Label For News”? His call for feedback prompted a response from Eric Newton, senior advisor to the president at Knight Foundation, who equates the fundamental nutritional elements of food directly to their counterparts in news. Newton […]
Article · October 11, 2011 by Eric Newton
This week, the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) is releasing “Reinventing Journalism,” Executive Director Robert Rosenthal’s personal account of joining CIR and launching California Watch, its statewide investigative team. As he says in the opening paragraph, Robert had no idea what he was getting into when he walked into CIR in 2008. “Reinventing Journalism” is […]
Article · October 5, 2011 by Eric Newton