Salon.com has a new voice: Dan Gillmor, director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University. Gillmor’s blog will “provide media and technology coverage that looks beyond the gloom to ways we can create better, more trustworthy content,’ he said. In his first entries, Gillmor has written about Apple’s defense of […]
The New World School of the Arts was awarded $90,000 as a 2008 Knight Arts Challenge winner to create ArtSeen, a Wynwood studio space for seniors working on their final projects. Today, Christina Gast updates us on the project… A new academic year has begun, and at New World School of the Arts’ Artseen studios and […]
On Wednesday, J-Lab (the Institute for Interactive Journalism) announced the winner of this year’s Knight-Batten Innovation Award: Wired.com‘s Wikiscanner coverage “which helped readers investigate and expose ego-editing and corporate whitewashing of Wikipedia entries.” PolitiFact.com, with its “Truth-o-Meter” for 2008 presidential campaign statements, and Ushahidi: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information, a site to report incidents of political violence […]
Program Preparing Journalism Students to Lead Industry Change Gains Momentum
Television stations across California will air proof this Friday that graduate student journalists can report and produce quality, top-flight journalism on the controversial issues of our time. The July 21 segment — a piece on immigration created this summer by University of Southern California graduate students – is but the first of a collection of […]
Only 21 of 65 Men’s Teams Would Meet Panel’s Graduation Standard