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The Carnegie and Knight foundations are pumping $11 million more into their initiative for journalism education change. The new recipients include: Arizona State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Here is the full press release:
EXPANSION OF CARNEGIE-KNIGHT INITIATIVE SEEKS TO TRANSFORM JOURNALISM EDUCATION IN U.S.
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Last week at the New England News Forum I made a 25-minute presentation explaining my Representative Journalism concept. You can see it below, it is very YouTube in quality. Here is Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism professor who writes the Media Nation blog, reacting to my presentation.
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Also the forum […]

This from Crain’s New York Business.com:
The Tow Foundation will give $3 million to the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism and $5 million to the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism are expected to announce […]

I am at Duke University to join the discussion defined here:  
 If you could build the ideal newsroom from scratch, what would it look like? We’re trying to help The Chronicle, the Duke University student newspaper, find an answer. Our project is being funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation  as part of the News Challenge Grant program.
Before we can […]

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New on Knight Citizen News Network: Top 10 Rules for Avoiding Legal Risk
If you’re running a citizen media site or contributing to one, these 10 rules will help you avoid legal piftalls. Games, exercises and video advice from Harvard Berkman Center experts and Media Law Resource Center attorneys. Produced by Geanne Rosenberg, […]