The Future of Journalism
What's Next for Newspapers and Journalism Education.
Jan Schaffer, J-Lab executive director, describes the skills journalism schools should be teaching to ensure success in a changing media world. Schaffer served on the Covering Communities advisory committee.
Revitalizing Community Journalism
Chris Waddle, director of the Knight Community Journalism Fellows, prepares his students with practical experience and sends them out with a desire for success in journalism, instead of a fear of its demise. He says The Teaching Newspaper is a way to truly understand community journalism. Waddle also served on the Covering Communities advisory committee.
Community
Thoughts on Venturing Beyond Borders.
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Molly Bingham, a freelance journalist, photographer and filmmaker, wrote this essay for the quarterly alumni magazine for Brooks School in North Andover, MA. She describes how venturing beyond her comfort zone helped her overcome her own preconceived views. Bingham is director of Meeting Resistance, a documentary set in Baghdad.
The Local News Handbook & The Local News Toolkit
National and local research has shown for years - decades! - that "local news" is newspapers' franchise and future. In the era of Google and Yahoo, that remains true for newspaper Web sites, too. But what is "local news"? In practice, it's mostly just what editors say it is, whether informed or not. These are two books, from the American Society of Newspaper Editors, that present broader and deeper definitions, based on readers' relationships with their communities.
From Facebook and Back.
We talk a great deal about journalistic independence. It’s a bedrock value, going back to this country’s founding. Peggy Kuhr believes that a news organization, however, can be independent only when it figures out how interdependent it must be with the communities it serves.
Hold that Obit!
Jock Lauterer describes how an emphasis on local news gives the community papers their vision, identity, franchise and their future.
Master Narratives
Narratives cloud thinking.We all have our narratives, writes renowned columnist Leonard Pitts. And if we’re not careful, we end up trapped by them.
Credibility
Building Trust in the News
This guidebook, with "101+ Good Ideas for Editors from Editors," distills the experiences of 200 news organizations to give you practical steps for improving readibility. Chapters focus on such topics as improving accuracy, controlling bias, reflecting diverse communities and bringing university students into the mix.