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CINCINNATI, March 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Scripps Howard Foundation today announced the winners of its annual Scripps Howard Awards, honoring the best work in the communications industry and journalism education in 2011. Established in 1953, the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards competition is open to news organizations based in the U.S. and recognizes outstanding print, broadcast and online journalism in 15 categories. Two additional categories honor...
RESTON, Va., March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As part of its national effort to help educators develop and share 21st century literacy skills, my.hsj.org and hsj.org invites high school teachers to apply for an expenses-paid, two-week summer institute. One hundred and seventy-five teachers will be competitively selected to attend the 2012 Reynolds High School Journalism Institute. Applications should be postmarked by March 12. There is no cost to the teacher or high school....
EVANSTON, Ill., Jan. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Medill Watchdog, a new accountability journalism initiative, today published its first extensive investigation that reveals how lax ethics laws in Illinois allow local, county and state politicians who are also lobbyists to use their public positions to benefit private clients. Investigative faculty Rick Tulsky and John Sullivan worked with Northwestern University student interns to gather and analyze thousands of documents, including...
Knight Foundation invests $4.6 million to expand local public radio, bring new journalism education model to Georgia and engage residents in critical issues Announcement will be available via livestream at http://ccj.mercer.edu at 11 a.m. eastern. MACON, Ga., Dec. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new effort will increase and strengthen local reporting by bringing professional journalists to work together with university students in a unique, joint newsroom in Macon's College...
NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Stinky Journalism is getting a new name and new website but the perennially popular media watchdog will not lose any of its bite or ability to sniff out bad journalism. The new name, iMediaEthics, and new website, iMediaEthics.org, were launched Dec. 5, 2011. iMediaEthics.org is an update of, and evolution from, its online predecessor, Stinky Journalism. Founded in 2004 by artist, historian and adjunct lecturer at the University of Iowa School of...
FLEMINGTON, N.J., Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Missouri School of Journalism and the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) formally announced today that they will partner with HCD Research to conduct a national study among 18-70 year-olds to determine their media use and reactions to various media images. <font size="2" face="Arial">(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20071204/NYTU133LOGO )</font> (Logo:...
PHOENIX, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Four journalists have been named the inaugural Reynolds visiting business journalism professors at Colorado State University, Grambling State University, Texas Christian University and the University of South Carolina under a $1.67 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. The five-year program will ultimately create 11 visiting professorships at 11 different schools. It is administered through the Donald W. Reynolds...
PHOENIX, Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Arizona Republic, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and The Seattle Times won gold, silver and bronze awards respectively in the fifth annual Barlett & Steele Awards in Investigative Business Journalism, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism announced today. Named for the renowned investigative team of Don Barlett and Jim Steele, whose numerous awards include two Pulitzer Prizes, these annual awards funded by the...
PHOENIX, Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Washington Post and msnbc.com this week are publishing a major national investigation into food safety in America, conducted by student journalists from five universities participating in the national Carnegie-Knight News21 program. Twenty-seven News21 fellows from Arizona State University, University of Maryland, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska and Harvard University collaborated to produce the project, which examines food safety...
Since 1993, the Foundation has invested more than $100 million to strengthen journalism essential to informed and engaged citizenry CHICAGO, Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Robert R. McCormick Foundation board of directors has approved nearly $5 million in new grants over the next two years to 22 organizations committed to strengthening quality journalism, promoting news literacy and protecting press freedoms. These grants underscore the continuing importance of journalism in...
