Carnegie-Knight to Give $11 Million for New Journalism Education Initiative

More than $11 million will be given to support three more journalism school and bolster programs at eight other schools through a partnership by the James S. and John L. Knight Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
The initiative contains two familiar goals: to enhance the journalism curriculum and to expand the existing News21 fellowships for journalism students. But it also aims to appoint a task force to address the "sea of change" that is sweeping across newsrooms and the journalism industry.
The three new schools to be funded under the initiative are Arizona State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
The foundations currently support journalism education at University of Southern California; University of Texas at Austin; University of Maryland; Northwestern University; Columbia University; University of Missouri; Syracuse University; and University of California at Berkeley.
The Joan Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government is also supported by the initiative.
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