Conversation with Len Downie on The Reconstruction of American Journalism
Posted 10/27/2009 2:10:00 PM

Is Leonard Downie Jr. right when he says that designating FCC fees and funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are acceptable means to strengthen local journalism and accountability reporting?

Marty Kaiser, 2009-10 ASNE president and editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel moderates a candid discussion with Len Downie about The Reconstruction of American Journalism report.

Downie is vice president at large at The Washington Post and Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. Downie co-wrote the report with Michael Schudson, a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The report, commissioned by the j-school, says journalism is being reinvented in promising ways.

The report here.