journalism education

Almost every week in 2024 has featured news of media layoffs (more than 800 so far by one count, which would place the sector on pace for 10,000 jobs lost this year, according to Fast Company) and left many professionals penning eulogies for the news industry while asking hard questions.

A high-profile nonprofit is launching a Washington D.C.-focused newsroom early next year that promises to publish deep reporting and act as a training ground for young reporters. The Allbritton Journalism Institute said on Wednesday that in January 2024, it plans to launch News of the United States, or “NOTUS,” a new publication that will explore Washington and the 2024 election.

The former president of Gannett Media and publisher of USA Today will succeed Alberto Ibargüen, who announced his retirement in March after 18 years leading the nonprofit foundation. (Gesi Schilling/Knight Foundation)

The Carole Kneeland Project for Responsible Journalism just marked its 25^th year of training newsroom leaders to be more ethical, empathetic and inclusive in their management. Joan Barrett, president and GM of WCNC Charlotte, N.C., and Anzio Williams, SVP of diversity, equity and inclusion at NBCUniversal Local, both Kneeland board members, explain its unique value. A full transcript of the conversation is included.

Demi Gough, a national news writer and producer at Sinclair’s corporate news hub, says attending Sinclair’s Producer Academy back in 2017 set her on a path to success.

A news industry that has been shedding jobs as long as they’ve been alive, and the risk of harassment when their work strikes nerves hasn’t dimmed the enthusiasm of many college students — often unpaid — who are keeping the flame alive with noteworthy journalism. Pictured: Emmy Martin, editor in chief of The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a copy of the Aug. 30 paper. (Samantha Lewis via AP)

The Carole Kneeland Project equips leaders with tools to run more effective newsrooms, better cover their communities, and ensure diverse voices. It’s trained more than 800 broadcast news leaders and boasts alumni in TV markets across the U.S.

The celebrated New Yorker staff writer sat for a wide-ranging interview to kick off his second year as Columbia Journalism School’s first Black dean. “The fact that we have navigated through these kinds of civic crises before,” he says, “doesn’t mean we should have a blasé attitude about confronting one now.”

Hawk+ is a streaming platform brimming with original content produced by students at Montclair State University. They’re hoping it’s a new model for student media to follow.

Northeastern University’s Reinventing Local TV News Project will place fellows at three major-market stations — WCBS New York, WCVB Boston and WLS Chicago — for a year-long effort to build radically new models for digital news storytelling.

Avid’s Craig Wilson, host of the Making the Media podcast, shares insights he’s gleaned over the past 50 episodes on AI, FAST channels, a skills shortage and leaps forward in video news storytelling in a particularly meta edition of Talking TV. A full transcript of the conversation is included.

Pauline Chiou’s Gen Z college journalism students are teaching her a lot about their media consumption priorities. It turns out Lululemon and Toca Boca can teach news outlets much about how to reach this elusive demo.

Two J-school seniors on the cusp of graduation and entry into the local TV news job market share their thoughts on the industry, its future and their place in it in a conversation with TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp and the Broadcast Education Association’s Executive Director Heather Birks. A full transcript of the conversation is included.

TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with Bonita Sostre, a coordinating producer with CBS News and president of the New York Association of Black Journalists, about its upcoming Juneteenth gala, how local news can share stories of the U.S.’s newest federal holiday and work NYABJ is doing to bring budding young journalists into the profession. A full transcript of the conversation is included.

The school used a white-label streaming technology company to launch its own streaming channel serving up a wide array of previously disaggregated student programming. The work-in-progress is readying students for an OTT-leaning media ecosystem.