POSTED AT 11:55 PM September 18, 2009

Innovative and inspiring new journalism from j-schools

Dan Gillmor sez, "Students (including some of mine) from a bunch of US journalism schools have outdone themselves with their foundation-funded summer project. Their work combines all kinds of media and ideas around a theme of 'a changing America,' with smart use of modern tools and traditional techniques. The pros could learn something from this."

The nation's leading journalism schools come together in this unique program to experiment with new forms of in-depth and investigative reporting.
Students travel the country to report on critical issues facing our changing nation and then find innovative ways to tell those stories.

News21 | Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education (Thanks, Dan!)

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Daemon | September 19, 2009 4:34 PM | Reply

Do they have a course that teaches the students not selling out? That would be a delightfull innovation these days.

querent | September 19, 2009 6:18 PM | Reply

a cool project. and a great place to reiterate the call for software for audio/visual hardware that will allow the journalist to stream what is recorded to a nearby storage device as the data is recorded. so that unfriendly parties (possibly authorities) accomplish less by smashing or confiscating hardware. I know some similar things (Shozu) exist for still photos, which is good.

I'd also like to see a "Hunter S. Thompson Chair of New Journalism" somewhere. Where credit is due.

Anonymous | September 20, 2009 6:35 AM | Reply

Hey, how about teaching them to report all the facts, and letting people decide for themselves?

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Anonymous

Innovative and inspiring new journalism from j-schools

"a cool project. and a great place to reiterate the call for software for audio/visual hardware that will allow the journalist to stream what is recorded to a nearby storage device as the data is recorded. so that unfriendly parties (possibly authorities) accomplish less by smashing or confiscating hardware. I know some similar things (Shozu) exist for still photos, which is good. I'd also like to see a "Hunter S. Thompson Chair of New Journalism" somewhere. Where credit is due...."

querent

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