When The New York Times and New York University announced last week that they would collaborate on a news site covering the East Village neighborhood, it got me thinking: Beyond Manhattan, what could this mean for the future of journalism education?
While it’s true that this isn’t the first pro-academic partnership — even the Times already [...]

[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh]
A gaggle of Google news items: Unlike the past several weeks with their paywall and iPad revelations, this week wasn’t dominated by one giant future-of-media story. But there were quite a few [...]

[I've asked Seth Lewis, a former Miami Herald editor and smart journalism professor-in-training at the University of Texas, to join our cast of occasional commentators here at the Lab. One of his primary focuses will be looking at the changing world of journalism schools. Here's an introduction. —Josh]
Last year saw no shortage of future-of-journalism conferences. [...]

[In October, the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy issued its report on how our media need to evolve to serve the public interest in the digital age. The effort included some big names: Google's Marissa Mayer, former solicitor general Ted Olson, ex-L.A. Times editor John Carroll, former FCC chairman [...]

I’ve helped organize a lot of future of journalism conferences this year, and have done some research for a few policy-oriented “future of journalism” white papers. And let’s face it: as Alan Mutter told On the Media this weekend, we’re edging close to the point of extreme rehash.
This isn’t to say there won’t be more [...]

[Our friend Geanne Rosenberg is both a journalist and a lawyer, so she's well positioned to analyze the ongoing legal controversy surrounding student journalists at Northwestern. Geanne is founding chair of the Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions at CUNY's Baruch College in New York. —Ed.]
Northwestern University Journalism Professor David Protess is accomplishing what [...]

Go figure: When we’re talking about a new media ecosystem, writers and reporters get all the press. But one in two of the country’s daily print journalists is an editor or a boss. What’s going to happen to them?
Cornelius Swart, the 37-year-old publisher of a respected neighborhood monthly in Portland, Ore., is working on an [...]