Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism seeks to keep alive a valuable tool for training journalists
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Substance is happening!
9/14/2009 3:27:00 PM
California Watch, the new unit of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, launched its first project Sept. 11, and it’s being used in at least 26 newspapers across the state.
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Newspapers as required reading
9/14/2009 3:26:00 PM
The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., just conducted an experiment with required summer freshman reading that worked. Thanks to Nancy Baldiga, dean of the freshman class and an associate professor in economics, students were asked to read newspapers rather than books to prepare themselves for college.
The students then debated the different topics they read about in an online class Web site.
There were skeptics who thought freshman unaccustomed to reading newspapers would skip the assignment, but apparently not. More than 60 percent of the incoming class of 750 students had logged onto the Web site by mid August and a minimum of 250 had posted articles or commented on someone else’s news post. The figures just grew from there.
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