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, […]
Eric Newton, Knight Foundation’s senior adviser to the president, addressed Dutch educators on Nov. 20 at a conference on the teaching hospital model of journalism education. Above is the video. Below is an edited, updated and slightly longer version of the talk. Thanks to editor-in-chief Bart Brouwers from dichtbij.nl and René van Zanten and Rick van Dijk […]
Top journalism students from 12 universities around the country will conduct a national investigative reporting project on post-9/11 veterans as part of the Carnegie-Knight News21 in-depth journalism program.
Related Link “New digital book from Knight: ‘Every reporter, editor & journalism school teacher needs to read this’ ” by Marika Lynch on Knight Blog Searchlights and Sunglasses: Field Notes From the Digital Age of Journalism by Eric Newton Oct. 17, 2013 – A new digital book launched today by Knight Foundation calls for change in […]
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 […]
Jason Randall, 26, places his mail-in ballot in a drop box outside the Lane County Elections Office in Eugene, Ore. Photo Credit: Michael Ciaglo/News21 A national, student-led investigative reporting project launched this week with an in depth look at voting rights across the country. Among its major findings: in-person voter impersonation on Election Day – […]
News21 fellow Joe Henke spends an afternoon reading through voting rights material. Photo by Lizzie Chen/News21. Journalism and communications schools need to recreate themselves if they are to succeed in playing their vital role as news creators and innovators, a group of foundations said in an open letter to university presidents. The foundations, all of […]
