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NEWS21
Toward
the creation of News 21 Incubators at five participating research
universities that will emphasize innovative, hands-on journalism
study and practice
As part of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism
Education, which seeks to deepen the intellectual life at journalism
schools and create a voice for their deans with the news industry,
a key element will be seeding innovative reporting on little covered
issues important to American's robust democracy in ways that attract
new and younger audiences. This project in innovative reporting
will be called News for the 21st Century: Incubators of New Ideas,
or News 21 and will be a partnership among five participating research
universities. The "incubators" situated on 4 campuses but involving
students from 5 universities, will emphasize innovative, hands-on
journalism study and practice. Approximately 44 students each year
will participate for ten weeks each summer starting in June 2006.
An individual will lead each journalism school "incubator" on campus--
the School Coordinator--in conjunction with the dean and faculty.
The five campuses will be networked by a National News 21 Coordinator
who will work to create outlets in mainstream and emerging news
organizations for these student news products that are experimental
in substance and style and on a topic of global importance. The
Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley will be the fiscal agent
for this project for the duration of this grant and responsible
for establishing the national infrastructure that will serve all
the universities involved.
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