Last Updated: July 28, 2000
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Institute for Journalism Excellence
Professors learn at newspapers
Teaching journalism professors.
That’s the goal of ASNE’s annual Institute for Journalism Excellence.
By taking educators out of the classroom and putting them in the newsroom,
ASNE — with the help of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation — brings
them closer to the profession and vice versa.
Here are two professors’ experience. 23 professors participated in the
summer 1999 program, from big schools and small, and they went to a variety
of newsroom environments, ranging from The Oregonian to The Post-Tribune
of Northwest Indiana in Gary.
Regardless of the size, however, the professors learned more about daily
journalism and taught the news staffers a thing or two, through brown-bag
lunches, critiques and coaching sessions.
This year’s journalism professors and their host newspapers are listed
on page 24.
