I had a chance yesterday afternoon to talk with Gary Kebbel, the journalism program director at the Knight Foundation and, thus, the administrator of the Knight News Challenge, which announced its newest set of winners yesterday. (News Challenge winners new and old are meeting at MIT this week.)
I asked him why there were fewer winners [...]

Jack Driscoll spent 39 years with The Boston Globe, ending his career as its top editor. But his most recent clips have covered topics like leash laws and school renovations.
Driscoll is a leader-among-peers at Rye Reflections, a citizen-journalist site staffed primarily by retired residents of his hometown, Rye, New Hampshire. He thinks that [...]

Potentially big news across town at MIT: According to a current grad student in the Comparative Media Studies program there, co-director Henry Jenkins is leaving MIT at year’s end to head to USC. (Southern Cal, not South Carolina.) MIT “will in all likelihood end its graduate program” in CMS, the student, Whitney Anne Trettian, writes [...]