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Elated to share that thanks to a $10 million gift from Craig Newmark, which we are adding to his previous $20M investment, the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY will be able to offer free tuition to 50 percent of our students. This gift also marks the official launch of a campaign to become tuition free for all of our students by the end of 2026, when we will celebrate the school’s twentieth anniversary. I am so proud of this. Maybe there was a time in which journalism schools weren’t as necessary, because newsrooms could afford the personnel, time and effort to shape the rookie reporter, help them try and fail until they made it. In our resource-starved industry, that is no longer the case. The growing need for a more diverse and imaginative generation of journalists and media leaders who can find the ways forward for the industry require an extraordinary effort from journalism schools, key in recruiting and shaping the most important part of the industry: its people. We need to eliminate all barriers that prevent future journalists from joining the news industry and staying in it. A free and outstanding journalism education, which provides not only the skills but the critical thinking and helps open doors, is the first of those barriers. Successful business models are absolutely necessary, but the most necessary element for a strong, independent journalism are the people who make it. The news industry will change and transform and become something different, but our need for journalists will remain the same.

First 'Intersection' post on my new Substack, Public History + Journalism! I write about the practice of "a shared authority" in public history and its many similarities to engagement journalism, including acknowledging power, focusing on process and building trust. I also write about how these words always sounds nice in theory, but I wish we talked more about how they work in practice, including when they *don't* work. That's an important overlap between the two fields, too. I really want to keep track of more examples of both public history and journalism projects at this intersection. Let me know what I'm missing and what can be added. Thank you for reading!

$10 Million Gift Sets Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism on Path to Free Tuition As one who holds a Communications Arts Degree in Journalism and Speech, I am excited to read about this investment in the next generation of journalist. I hope that the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY's curriculum addresses cultural conditioning, so we have fair and unbiased reporting! Hopefully, the curriculum also teaches the next generation of journalist to change the dehumanizing narratives for people and communities of color. We need to stop using words like poor, low-income, poverty, etc. Humans should be uplifted and these terms only continue to feed the institutional racism that is interwoven in everything. Let's use words that are more accurate like #UnderResourced, #Undervalued, #UnderEstimated, etc. Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, I am open to being added to your guest lecturer list, if you have one. Craig Newmark thank you for this transformational investment in the next generation of storytellers and narrative disruptors! This quote says it perfectly..... “If we believe journalism is public service, a service that is essential to our democracy, then we need to eliminate the barriers that stand between the people who want to go into journalism and a successful career in news media,” said Graciela Mochkofsky, Dean of the Newmark J-School. “The first barrier is a lack of access to an excellent journalism education, and the Newmark J-School is determined to lead the way in eliminating it. Our beleaguered industry and profession demand it.” San Antonio Report Angie Mock Iris Dimmick Jimmy B Holmes, Publisher-President https://lnkd.in/gucS_9s5

The summer 2024 journalism grants roundup: If you need funding to create a piece of journalism that you truly believe can change the world, look for it here #digitalpublishing #journalism #onlinepublishing

A journalism minor is a great idea. I hope employers will value young people who take a major they love to start building subject matter expertise and pick up the basics of journalism with the intention of learning on the job. #journalismjobs #journalism

It's out! Our report on rethinking journalism innovation, funding and policy, with contributions from leading journalists and scholars. Across the 14 articles, the contributors consider how to reshape the practice of journalism, examine existing and emerging business models and analyze the impact of policy in different national contexts.

And accessibility. To be able to reach and serve all audiences journalists need to know how all those audiences are accessing their content and how to ensure they can

This is a thought-provoking essay about the role journalism schools play in making future graduates ready for “ impactful roles in media that keep the ecosystem driving forward.” But does our consideration of “ecosystem” extend to how journalism percolates through public consciousness to shape opinion and influence action? The evidence suggests not to the extent necessary. A great many authoritative, factual stories exist to refute the Stop the Steal meme. Yet this Big Lie remains pervasive and pervasive. A century ago in his seminal work “Public Opinion,” Walter Lippmann described how credible information filtered through opinion leaders in society to create a “pseudo environment” that “manufactured consent.” We know the filtration process has changed. We talk about people living in “bubbles” where they only get information that reinforce their beliefs and preconceived notions. Maybe J-schools should take a giant step back into the realm of theory and reconsider how today’s technological and sociological conditions, so vastly different than those of Lippmann’s day, demand equally sweeping revisions to our playbook. Because journalism can’t be impactful if it can’t prick a bubble. #publicopinion #journalism #politicaltheory #mediastudies

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Teaching a young journalist demands more than training them in traditional storytelling skills, and now must include, an understanding of the larger digital ecosystem, product management, audience engagement, user experiences, revenue streams, and more. If journalism schools want to succeed, they must teach students to succeed across the whole industry, not just as reporters.