Eric Newton is vice president of the journalism program for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Since 2001, he has developed more than $250 million in grants to advance quality journalism, freedom of expression and media innovation worldwide.
Before Knight, Newton was founding managing editor of the Newseum. Much of his original work as its chief content creator remains in the world’s first major museum of news in Washington, D.C.
Newton began his journalism career as a newspaper editor in Northern California. At the Oakland Tribune, he was managing editor under owners Bob and Nancy Maynard, when the newspaper won 150 journalism awards, including a Pulitzer Prize.
The Knight Foundation’s Newton writes about the impact of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative, which has tried to improve the quality of instruction and research at the United States’ journalism schools.
Newton, Eric. "Eric Newton: Shame on us if we don’t take the steps needed to feed knowledge to our democracy." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 6 Jan. 2010. Web. 3 Oct. 2024.
APA
Newton, E. (2010, Jan. 6). Eric Newton: Shame on us if we don’t take the steps needed to feed knowledge to our democracy. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved October 3, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/eric-newton-shame-on-us-if-we-dont-take-the-steps-needed-to-feed-knowledge-to-our-democracy/
Chicago
Newton, Eric. "Eric Newton: Shame on us if we don’t take the steps needed to feed knowledge to our democracy." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified January 6, 2010. Accessed October 3, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2010/01/eric-newton-shame-on-us-if-we-dont-take-the-steps-needed-to-feed-knowledge-to-our-democracy/.
Wikipedia
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