News21: Journalism Fellowships
News21 is a national journalism program funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Carnegie Corp. as part of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education. News21 (for news in the 21st century) is a summer newsroom program held at eight top journalism schools. Each summer, 10 to 12 students receive fellowships at each school to do in-depth reporting on a special topic and produce multimedia news stories.
Their collective topic for 2009 was American Tapestry: Exploring the Demographics of a Changing Nation. Here are the Web sites they produced:
- Arizona State
Latino America - Berkeley
Intersections - Columbia
The Charter Explosion - Maryland
The New Voters - North Carolina
Powering a Nation - Northwestern
Urban Youth and the New America - Southern California
Southwestern Shifts - Syracuse
The Young and the Wireless
For more information on News21, visit www.news21.com.