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When a Writer Dies: Making Difficult Decisions About the Work Left Behind
When an author’s death leaves a manuscript unfinished, her husband tries to put together the pieces and complete the book. → Read More
Zuckerberg-Chan To Do List – Trust, Media and Democracy –
In a single day, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan can turn everything around. → Read More
Innovation at the Cronkite School: Ask ‘Why Not?’
This is the third of three blog posts on innovation by Eric Newton, innovation chief of Cronkite News at Arizona State University. Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron gave a terrific speech last graduation season about the transition from print to the digital age. → Read More
Innovation at Cronkite News: Long Live the Experiment!
This is the second of three blog posts on innovation by Eric Newton, innovation chief of Cronkite News at Arizona State University. By experimenting with new approaches at Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, we identify innovations that improve both... → Read More
Seeing Innovation in a New, Better Way for Journalists, Educators
This is the first of three blog posts on innovation by Eric Newton, innovation chief of Cronkite News at Arizona State University. In a popular television commercial, Jeffrey Tambor plays a corporate boss sitting in suit and tie at the end of the long conference table. He wants big ideas. → Read More
Is Journalism Education Changing Fast Enough?
Last week at the Online News Association convention in Chicago, we did a “lighting round” on our update of Searchlights and Sunglasses, the free digital learning resource Knight Foundation offered up last year to journalism education. Did we just say the first edition launched last year? That seems like a lifetime ago -- maybe because, in iPhone years, it is. → Read More
News for High Schools: Digital Media Plus Teaching Equals Support for Freedom
Some experts say smartphones make young people stupid. Others say technology makes them smarter. Still others say the tool is not important; it’s how we learn to use it. A new survey of more than 10,000 high school students lends support to that last view. → Read More
News For High Schools: Digital Media Plus Teaching Equals Support For Freedom
This year, for the first time, American high school students show a greater overall appreciation for the First Amendment than do adults.... → Read More
8 Digital Tools Every Journalist Should Try
When Charlie Beckett asked me to join the Polis journalism conference this week at the London School of Economics and Political Science, he showed the depth of his university by asking a surprisingly practical journalism question for a school <a href=http://www.topuniversities. → Read More
8 Digital Tools Every Journalist Should Try
When Charlie Beckett asked me to join the Polis journalism conference this week at the London School of Economics and Political Science, he showed the depth of his university by asking a surprisingly practical journalism question for a school <a href=http://www.topuniversities. → Read More
The Best Journalism School in America Is…
The best journalism school in America is … Pennsylvania State. Scratch that: It’s Columbia University. No, wait. It’s the University of North Carolina. Sorry, I meant to say Arizona State … errr … Missouri … ahhh … Northwestern. → Read More