Warhover to Lead Innovative Missouri Editing Project
In the continuing progression of civic journalists moving to lead positions in the new media world, Tom Warhover has been named Executive Editor for Innovation at the University of Missouri’s Knight Center in Editing Excellen
ce. A Knight Foundation press release says his position will be a “New Leadership Role to Guide Journalism’s Future.”
The press release adds that Warhover, pictured here, will:
lead efforts to transform the daily Columbia Missourian and its satellite publications into newsrooms of the future, experimenting with new approaches to content and delivery while honoring the best traditions of public service, integrity and independence…
In his new role, Warhover will join the Knight Center in Editing and will direct the Missourian newsrooms as live laboratories for change, with an emphasis on emerging technologies and citizen involvement to strengthen the journalistic mission. He will work with journalism professionals and scholars to identify the urgent challenges facing the industry…
Here is more about Warhover from the press release:
Warhover, an award-winning editor from The Virginian-Pilot and a pioneer in civic journalism, has been executi
ve editor of the Missourian since 2001. He helped to emphasize more “meaning per inch” in a re-launch of the Sunday edition and to create a citizen journalism Web site with a weekly print edition. Warhover opened the newsroom to Roger Fidler , a longtime industry innovator, who created a digital, downloadable edition.
He and Cheryl Gibbs co-authored the public journalism oriented text book Getting the Whole Story, and Warhover is also a charter member of the Public Journalism Network(PJNet) founded here at Kennesaw State University in 2003.
