Articles

On-the-Ground Reporting: Why It Matters

‘… sometimes editors — and not just reporters — need to walk in the steps of the people they cover.’

Teaching Journalism in the Digital Age: Introduction

In our Winter 2006 issue, Goodbye Gutenberg, journalists described the ways in which digital technology affects their work, and adjustments being made within newsrooms were front and center. What wasn’t…

Values Reside at the Core of Journalism

It is these essential values that ‘make someone a good journalist, and they are what lift this work above the trivial.’

Passing Along the Value of Humility

‘Students need to be open-minded about the best way to tell each story rather than seeing rich media as mere add-ons to word-driven narratives.’

Teaching What We Don’t (Yet) Know

A course about change becomes a constant work in progress as it looks to the newsrooms, audiences and forms of the future.

The Web Resides at the Hub of Learning

‘For us, the Web is entirely positive: It is a journalistic tool with wondrous powers ….’

It’s the Audience, Stupid!

At Stony Brook University, thousands of students are learning how to critically examine the news they encounter.

How a New J-School Takes on a Changing Profession

CUNY is integrating new digital technologies with the ‘eternal verities’ of reporting, writing and critical thinking.

Newsroom Training: Essential, Yet Too Often Ignored

‘Only a third of news organizations increased their training budgets in the past five years ….’

Pushing and Prodding Latin American Journalism Schools to Change

A Colombian journalist makes it more likely that students will learn how to ‘think online’ so they will be prepared to enter the job market in this digital era.