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A rich and unique repository of information on the progress of Online Journalism, with comments and insights from professionals and scholars who have been working on the frontlines.
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Faculty page for William Raspberry, journalism professor and Knight Chair in Communications and Journalism, Duke University. You can read about his course in column opinion writing in this Duke Magazine article.
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The Crimes of War Project developed an education program to promote the teaching of the rules of war to key audiences including professional journalists, university students in journalism, human rights and political science, and high school students.
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The Crimes of War Project is a collaboration of journalists, lawyers
and scholars dedicated to raising public awareness of the laws of
war and their application to situations of conflict. Our goal is
to promote understanding of international humanitarian law among
journalists, policymakers, and the general public, in the belief
that a wider knowledge of the legal framework governing armed conflict
will lead to greater pressure to prevent breaches of the law, and
to punish those who commit them.
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National training program for journalists who cover nonprofits, at the Marshall University School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
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Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Committee of Concerned Journalists offer research, resources and ideas to improve journalism.
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Tomorrow's Workforce helps newsrooms develop training plans for mid-career journalists.
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Internews works to improve access to information for people around the world by fostering independent media and promoting open communications policies. Internews’ programs are built on the conviction that providing people with access to vibrant, diverse news and information empowers them to make their voices heard and to participate effectively in their communities.
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The Hechinger Institute is dedicated to fair, accurate and insightful reporting about education.
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The Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues helps non-metropolitan journalists define the public agenda for their communities, and grasp the local impact of broader issues.
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Faculty page for Ed Wasserman, journalism professor and Knight Chair in Journalism Ethics at Washington and Lee University. His home page features columns and outside lectures.
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Faculty page for Patricia Thomas, Knight Chair in Health & Medical Journalism at the University of Georgia. Read about the programs of the Knight Chair in Health & Medical Journalism here.
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Faculty page for Joseph Ritchie, journalism professor and Knight Chair for
Journalism Student Enhancement, School of Journalism and Graphic Communication, Florida A&M University.
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Home page of Michael Pollan, author and Knight Chair in Science and
Technology Reporting, University of California at Berkeley.
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Faculty page for Sylvia Nasar, journalism professor and Knight Chair in
Business Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia
University.
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Faculty page for Malcolm Moran, Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society in the College of Communications at The Pennsylvania State University.
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Faculty page for Phil Meyer, journalism professor and Knight Chair in
Mass Communication Research, School of Journalism and Mass
Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Diane Winston has worked as a reporter for several of the nation's
leading newspapers, including the Baltimore Sun, Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Times Herald and The News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C.. She is
the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the University of Southern
California.
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Faculty page for Mindy McAdams, Professor and Knight Chair of Journalism Technologies and the Democratic Process at the University of Florida. In her blog, Teaching Online Journalism, she shares her thoughts about online journalism. Here is a list of syllabi for courses she has taught since 2003. You can visit her Web site here and read about her book, "Flash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia News Packages," here. The companion site to the book, flashjournalism.com, offers free access to all example files for professionals, students and educators. It also includes links to professional examples of great Flash journalism.
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Faculty page for Stuart Loory, Professor of Magazine Journalism and Lee
Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies at the University of Missouri School
of Journalism.
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Faculty page for Peggy Kuhr, journalism professor and Knight Chair on
the Press, Leadership and Community, University of Kansas.
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IJF is a non-profit organization committed
to promoting free and independent media in Eastern and Central Europe and Southeast Asia.
IJF's regional Centers for Independent Journalism offer training and institutional support
to professional journalists and students through programs designed to serve local needs in
Hungary and Romania. IJF's trainers and consultants also provide training and
support to professional journalists in Southeast Asia. All of the courses taught follow
the principles practiced by responsible journalists worldwide.
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The Knight International Press Fellowship Program
is a private-sector effort designed to share professional expertise and
offer assistance to the media overseas. U.S. journalists are dispatched
to foreign media organizations to lead training sessions. The purpose
of the program is one of mutual benefit: to help international
colleagues nurture the development of a strong and free press, and to
enhance understanding among U.S. news professionals of the press and
cultures of countries throughout the world.
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Information on the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the University of Southern California at Annenberg School for Communication.
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The Rosalynn
Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism provide grants to journalists
to study topics related to mental health or mental illnesses.
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The World Press Institute is committed to
promoting excellence in international reporting and to fostering
understanding about the role and responsibilities of a free press in a
democracy.
The Institute offers a four-month fellowship in the U.S. to foreign journalists.
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Professor and Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland.
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The six-day boot camp offers a crash course in the basics of public
health science and biostatistics. It is open to any journalist, whether
print, online or broadcast, interested in learning more about public
health science.
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Faculty page for Charlotte Grimes, journalism professor and Knight Chair in Political Reporting, Syracuse University.
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Faculty page for William Gaines, journalism professor and Knight Chair
in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting, College of Communications,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Faculty page for Stephen K. Doig, journalism professor and Knight Chair
in Computer-Assisted Journalism at Arizona State University.
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Faculty page for Jim Detjen, journalism professor and Knight Chair in
Environmental Journalism, Michigan State University. Detjen also is the
director of MSU's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism and MSU's Environmental Journalism Program. Classes affiliated with MSU's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, and syllabi, are here.
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The Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State
University's School of Journalism trains student and professional
journalists to cover the environment. The program offers numerous
classes and professional workshops for the study and practice of
environmental journalism. Faculty conduct research and attract
environmental experts and journalists from around the world as guest
lecturers.
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Faculty page for Jacqui Banaszynski, journalism professor and Knight
Chair in Editing, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, and
Editing Fellow, The Poynter Institute.
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Knight Chair Jack Balkin's blog on blogspot.
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Knight professor of Constitutional law and the First Amendment and director of The Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Contains links to his works as well as a full bibliography and contact information.
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Faculty page for Rosental Alves, journalism professor and Knight Chair in International Journalism, University of Texas at Austin. Director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas.
You can also see his course pages for the following courses: International Reporting, Multimedia Journalism and Journalism in Latin America.
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This web site covers a wide variety of topics and subjects related to the teaching and learning of journalism. Journalism instructors will find many useful tips, suggestions, information and exercises.
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Dennis D. M.'s blog about writing.
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A Web site designed specifically for business journalists and other
journalists who may cover business in the course of their work. This "one-stop" business journalism training site offers a number of self-guided tutorials and articles.
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The Missouri journalism school
makes a quality professional education accessible to working
journalists through its online master's degrees. Students can now
choose between a master's degree in Media Management or Strategic Communications.
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CJC inspires and recognizes exemplary reporting on children and
families. Since 1993, thousands of print, broadcast and online
journalists have attended their intensive training programs and relied
on them for balanced information and resources.
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The "Newswriting For Radio" website covers various aspects of radio
journalism, from basic broadcast sentence structure, to styles of
delievery, to news judgment.
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A how-to site for community journalism. J-Learning is a companion to
J-Lab’s New Voices project. The site is designed to help individuals,
civic groups and school groups jumpstart their own community media
projects. Here, you'll find extensive, detailed training in Web site
creation, HTML, page design and use of photos, audio, video, animation,
surveys and databases. We also offers tips on advertising, fundraising
and e-commerce to help sustain these community efforts.
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Top-quality training programs for employees from every newspaper department delivered to 20 Southeastern cities each year. Free tuition. No plane tickets or hotel costs. And one day or less away from the office.
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Top-flight editing and management training for frontline editors. Look here for where we'll be holding two-day workshops around the country. It's national and nearby, and only $35!
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The Learning Newsroom is a joint venture by API and ASNE to find ways to help improve workplace culture in newsrooms and to increase training for journalists. The Readership Institute's research called newspapers one of the most defensive workplaces ever studied. Side effects of a defensive culture include resistance to change and high stress. If a newspaper were able to move to a constructive culture, its chances of growing readership would be increased, RI said. A Learning Newsroom curriculum is being tested in 10 pilots through the end of 2006 to see if journalists can bring about changes in their workplace culture. Results will be shared on this site.
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The Student Press Law Center is an advocate for student free-press rights and provides information, advice and legal assistance at no charge to students and the educators who work with them.
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Brush up on your editing skills and find new links about the editing process. A variety of quizzes will challenge your brain and your memory. A superb site for students and young professionals, with scholarship and annual convention opportunities.
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MIT course materials online, including lecture notes and assignments. Free to everyone.
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How can copy desks meet the challenges of changing media? This conference offers answers from some of the best minds in the business, including Knight chair Jacqui Banaszynski; Maynard President Dori Maynard; Baltiimore Sun assistant managing editor John McIntyre; Nieman Curator Bob Giles; and Poynter President Karen Brown Dunlap.
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EditTeach.org offers resources for editing professors, students and working professionals. In addition to an interactive headline workshop and information on writing, editing, professional life and teaching ideas, EditTeach.org houses the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund editing tests since 1998 - and the answers. The site is also home to a pdf version of "HTK," the headline book written by editing guru John Bremner, and the Bremner DVD, "Guardian of the Newsroom."
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GlobalHealthReporting.org is designed to help journalists efficiently access the latest and most accurate information on HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. The site, includes daily news summaries; a calendar of upcoming events related to HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and health journalism; current regional and global health statistics; in-depth country spotlights; and reporting tools for journalists.
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IJNet is the world's premier information source for journalists in developing and transition countries. The Web site, published by the International Center for Journalists, offers an extensive training events calendar, media development news, media laws, codes of ethics, and many other resources for journalists in countries around the world.
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Need help understanding and reporting the 2000 Census data? Stephen Doig, Knight Chair in Computer-Assisted Journalism at Arizona State University, has assembled tools and resources to help you.
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The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin launched a redesigned Web site in March 2005. New features include a Knight Center blog and online course offerings.
Rosental Alves, the director of the center, is the Knight Chair in International Journalism at UT Austin.
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Michael Pollan, Knight Chair in Science and Technology Reporting at the University of California at Berkeley, reveals unsettling details of cattle production in the New York Times magazine on January 11, 2004.
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