Aug 6, 2008
By Kahrin Deines/Medill - Smith Island, Md. Only one excited voice and the whirr of overhead fans broke the rapt silence of the open-air tabernacle where Smith Island’s annual “camp meeting” takes place. Itinerant Methodist preacher Eric Clark was working his way – and his audience – into a fervor. Between breaths and pauses [...]
Aug 6, 2008
(All photos courtesy of Helping Others Maintain Environmental Standards) Workers set up two hoses to pump water that leaked into a manure pond under construction at the Tradition Dairy site. By Lauren Williamson, Medill Despite a water leak that occurred while workers dug a manure pond in Jo Daviess County last week, plans remain on schedule for [...]
Aug 5, 2008
By Angela Nitzke/Medill Humans won’t go extinct if the planet warms up a few degrees, surmised Richard, who sat next to me on my flight from Anchorage to Chicago. Probably true, but a lot could change that would influence the way we live our lives. And in Alaska, climate change is not a computer modeled prediction. [...]
Aug 1, 2008
Three projects have launched today. Explore Immigration: New Voters, Old Fears, The American Dream, and The Western Edge: Campaign ‘08 in the Mountain West and Southwest. Both feature interactive Flash applications, audio and video — and, above all, top-flight journalism.
Jul 23, 2008
Ethanol plants like this Adkins Energy LLC plant in Lena, Ill. use an average of four gallons of water per gallon of fuel they produce. When irrigated corn is used that number can balloon to nearly 1,000 gallons of water. (Photo by Rob Runyan) By Rob Runyan/Medill Watergy No, it’s not the newest vitamin-enhanced thirst quencher on the [...]
Jul 18, 2008
By Lauren Williamson, Medill Galena, IL–My goal tonight was to not throw up. I have what is probably an inordinate anxiety about food poisoning, which has been exacerbated by this summer’s heavily documented outbreak of salmonella and always intensifies when I need to choose a restaurant in an unfamiliar place. As I took one wet step after [...]
Jul 18, 2008
By Dori Glanz and Rupa Shenoy, Medill Pampa, TX—The folks up in the Texas Panhandle still hang on to the lifestyle of the great state’s past, and Texas kitsch surrounds you here in “the top of Texas.” In the Palo Duro Canyon State Park, we hitched a ride to our car from a cowboy with an [...]
Jul 18, 2008
View Larger Map In Pennsylvania’s 11th district, Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-Nanticoke) faces a serious challenge from Mayor Lou Barletta (R-Hazleton), who has earned a reputation as a crusader against illegal immigration since the Kanjorski last faced him in 2002. The map above shows a few points of interest in the 11th, including major cities, historical landmarks [...]
Jul 14, 2008
By Rebecca Ford, USC SAN DIEGO, Calif.–During a speech emphasizing his shared values with the Latino community, Barack Obama unveiled another aspect of his health care plan at the annual convention of the National Council of La Raza, the largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States. Obama announced yesterday that his plan would [...]
Jul 14, 2008
Every couple of weeks an email from Baghdad pops up in Iraq War veteran Joey Coon’s inbox at his home in Washington, D.C. It’s Coon’s 23-year-old Iraqi interpreter, nicknamed Dash, pleading for help to get out of Iraq and into the United States. Dash feels in constant grave danger that he and his family will [...]
July 31 -- Jody Brannon has been chosen to be director of the News21 Initiative. Read more
July 7, 2008 — Seeking to change the way journalism is taught in the United States, Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation are investing more than $11 million in the expansion of a national initiative to adapt journalism education to the challenges of a struggling news industry. Read the press release
November 11, 2007 — Medill Fellow Mrinalini Reddy's article on the TV series "Aliens in America" runs in The New York Times.
September 17, 2007 — Harvard Fellow Nik Steinberg's piece on the Catholic town of Ave Maria runs in the Miami Herald.
September 12, 2007 — MediaShift's Mark Glaser and Public Journalism Network's Leonard Witt review News21.
August 20, 2007 — Read the News21 Press Release.
August 8, 2007 — KCET, the Public Television station in Los Angeles, airs USC's "Magical Mystery Tour of California" this week. Their evening news program, "Life and Times," aired "Self-Realization Lake Shrine" on Monday, "Salvation Mountain" on Tuesday, "Integatron" airs Wednesday, "Ojai" on Thursday and "Mt. Shasta" on Friday.
August 5, 2007 — UC Berkeley fellow Pauline Bartolone's story on polygamy among African-American Muslims runs in the San Francisco Chronicle.
August 4, 2007 — News21 receives a glowing review from BoingBoing, one of the most popular blogs on the Internet. "These student presentations are better than anything I've seen from "real" news agencies and could serve as a model for the future of interactive/online journalism," writes Cory Doctorow.
August 3, 2007 — Harvard Fellow Nik Steinberg's radio piece on the Catholic town of Ave Maria airs on LatinoUSA.
July 26, 2007 — USC's Chantal Allan reports on The Yin and Yang of Positive Thinking for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
July 25, 2007 — USC Fellow Nick Street publishes an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times on transcendental meditation being taught in schools.
July 22, 2007 — Columbia fellow John Soltes's A New Homeland in New York, about tensions surrounding Nigerian Catholics in a Brooklyn church, is published in the New York Times.
July 13, 2007 — USC fellow Nick Street's "Full Metal Lotus," about using meditation to help traumatized veterans, appears in the July 13-19, 2007 L.A. Weekly.
This site is a product of Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education, a project sponsored by the Carnegie and Knight Foundations in which specially selected journalism-school graduates produce challenging stories in ways that push the boundaries of the form. We include ten Fellows each from Berkeley, USC, Columbia and Medill, as well as four Fellows from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a support team of academics and professional journalists.
