Wednesday, November 13, 2013

JRN 200: A Message From The J-School, Part 1

Dear Colleagues,

What a coup! Tom Rosenstiel is in great demand, and we are lucky to have him visit. 

Please encourage your students to attend the Neal Shine Ethics Lecture with Tom Rosenstiel Nov. 21, Thursday, at 4 p.m. in room 145.  He'll talk about the need for journalists in the 21st century. What is required are the skills of professional news gathering, and perhaps more importantly, the intellectual discipline of open-minded inquiry. He's also talking to some classes about the role of mobile in the future of journalism.



3) Tom's Background:

Tom Rosenstiel is an author, journalist, researcher and media critic. 

He worked as media writer for the Los Angeles Times for a decade, chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek, press critic for MSNBC, business editor of the Peninsula Times Tribune, a reporter for Jack Anderson's Washington Merry Go 'Round column, and began his career at the Woodside Country Almanac in his native northern California. 

His newest book is The New Ethics of Journalism: Principles for the 21st CenturyHe is the author of seven books, including The Elements of Journalism: What News People Should Know and the Public Should Expect, and Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload. 

Before joining the American Press Institute in January 2013, he was founder and for 16 years director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism at the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C., and co-founder and vice chair of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. 

He is a four-time winner of both the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Journalism Research and the national prize for media criticism from Penn State. Among his other awards are the Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism from the University of Missouri Journalism School, the Dewitt Carter Reddick Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement in the Field of Communications from the University of Texas at Austin, the Columbia Journalism School Distinguished Alumni Award.


Should be great! 
Lucinda


Dr. Lucinda D. Davenport
Professor & Director
School of Journalism
College of Communication Arts & Sciences
Michigan State University


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