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An article at Inside Higher Ed has started an interesting discussion on the worth of journalism schools. Here is one example from Maria B. Marron, a journalism professor at Central Michigan University:
 …the ages-old debate about the value vs. non-value of journalism programs and arrived only at the conclusion, articulated by Alberto Ibarguen, that j-schools “ought to be […]

Here is the video promoting  a new job at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation:

If you would rather read about the job (I don’t think just wanting to read rather than watch will disqualify you), here is more information from a Knight Foundation news release:
Knight Foundation seeks an Online Community Manager to be based in […]

This from a Knight Foundation press release:
PBS and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today debuted the MediaShift Idea Lab blog a group blog featuring 36 wide-ranging innovators reinventing community news for the digital age.
Each Idea Lab blogger won a grant in the Knight News Challenge to help fund a startup idea or to […]

This from the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno:
ColeCampbell.info is the place where you can find information about the passions and beliefs held dear by Cole C. Campbell concerning the role of journalism and journalists in our democracy.
To honor and further Cole’s ideas, we have established the Cole C. Campbell Dialogue on […]

 Plenty happening on the Knight Foundation  funding of digital transformation, including this:
The foundation has awarded $2.8 million to the University of California, Berkeley to increase its multimedia workshops for journalists and $2.4 million to the University of Southern California to increase its leadership workshops and special topic seminars for journalists. An additional $1.5 million grant will help […]