News21 project opens to all US journalism schools after Knight grant
The project aims to help leading journalism schools in the United States reinvent themselves for the digital age
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A project which aims to "reinvent" universities for the digital age is to be extended to all journalism and mass communications programs in the US, thanks to a multi-million dollar grant.
The initiative, supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, will be open to all journalism schools in the United States, promote curriculum changes and launch spin-off projects at five universities.
The project, which is part of the Carnegie Knight Initiative for the Future of Journalism Education – a $20 million initiative – launched in 2005 at 11 leading journalism and communication schools. In a release the Knight Foundation said the new grants totalling $3.9 million, as well as a "significant contribution" from Arizona State University, will help the national News21 project continue for at least another decade.
"The initiative has developed a new cohort of well-educated journalists who are analytical thinkers and adept communicators, as at home in the virtual universe as they are in the day-to-day world of what has become a news cycle that knows no global borders and never sleeps," Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation, said in the release.
"Yet of even greater importance, this investment has fortified journalism’s role as a pillar of democracy."
Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of Knight Foundation, said the Carnegie Knight schools "are very different places than they were just six years ago".
"Today they have new classes, new teachers and new approaches that combine digital innovation with expertise-based journalism."
Schools wanting to partner in the national News21 program should contact Arizona State University. More details can be found at the News21 website.
