Thank you, Brandy, and thank you for inviting me to deliver the 2006 Harry M. and Edel Ayers Lecture that honors the memory of your parents, both publishers of The Anniston Star and stalwarts of distinguished journalism. Last Sunday’s New York Times Book Review carried a piece about Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping […]
By Alberto Ibargüen Thank you, Brandy, and thank you for inviting me to deliver the 2006 Harry M. and Edel Ayers Lecture that honors the memory of your parents, both publishers of The Anniston Star and stalwarts of distinguished journalism. Last Sunday’s New York Times Book Review carried a piece about Malcolm Gladwell, the author […]
Announcement of Funding from Knight Foundation for New Digital Service to Be Made at National Summit on the Future of Public Broadcasting Tomorrow in Washington, D.C.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State, a school with an innovative Center for Sports Journalism and one of the nation’s most respected intercollegiate athletics programs, will enhance its leadership role by becoming the home to the new Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society. Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James […]
New York, N.Y.—Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York announced today that five additional journalism schools at major research universities have been asked to submit proposals for curriculum enrichment and to join an initiative begun this year to revitalize journalism education. The five schools, which will present proposals for the approval of the […]
Schools of Journalism at Columbia, Northwestern, Berkeley and USC, and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard are part of The Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education. The initiative respond
ST PETERSBURG, FLA. – News University (www.newsu.org), an innovative e-learning center that helps journalists through self-directed training, today unveiled the second installment of the Online News Association’s Training Project series. Using case studies of outstanding online projects, the new course helps producers and editors learn how to strengthen their work under real-world time and budget […]
ST PETERSBURG, FLA. – News University (www.newsu.org), an innovative e-learning center that helps journalists through self-directed training, today released “Journalism and Trauma.” The course, a partnership between the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma and NewsU, explains traumatic stress, its impact on mental and physical health, and where and how to look for information on […]
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded the University of Kentucky a two-year, $250,000 grant to raise the profile of rural journalism. The grant aims to create a major survey of rural media, a popular rural journalism Web site, a class in rural journalism, and training for rural journalists. […]
To put first things first, I deeply appreciate this honor. Jerry Sass is and was a great leader in journalism, in journalism education and in journalism’s continuing self-examination. The roster of those who preceded me in winning this award is daunting in its excellence. I am proud to be included in their number. But let […]
NEW YORK – The Advertising Council announced today that it is launching the third round of its Campaign for Freedom work in time for Independence Day. The new television, radio and print PSAs are designed to encourage all Americans to engage in everyday civic activities that will express freedom in action. The PSAs were created […]