Sunday, March 16, 2008
For classroom discussion... MediaShift's video-enriched summary of election coverage projects involving online "other journalists," and last month's Times story on a major award for Joshua Michael Marshall, which had been lingering in my "get to it over spring break" list,  both go nicely with the story about Harvard's award to an old pro turned non-profit "other" investigative journalist I posted earlier today...

Semi-pro journalism teams give view of U.S. elections from PBS MediaShift

Blogger, sans pajamas, rakes muck and a prize story from The New York Times


4:05:55 PM  #  
Putting "nonprofit" and "Wall Street Journal" in one paragraph is fun...

Having made a career shift to the new nonprofit side of journalism, former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Paul E. Steiger will receive the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism this week from the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard.

Steiger will deliver a keynote speech on Tuesday and lead a panel discussion Wednesday of "The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting," featuring the center's investigative reporting award finalists. Watch the Shorenstein Center site for more information, lists of award winners, and probably transcripts after the events.

Steiger is chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists and editor in chief of ProPublica, a new nonprofit investigative journalism organization trying to fill a gap in "watchdog" press activities by for-profit media.

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