News21 in the News

Below is a collection of them. Please send us an e-mail if you know of others.

• Arizona State Professor Tim McGuire, on his blog, discussing prospects for investigative journalism, emphasizes News21 as an model the industry should embrace.

• Columbia fellow Alexandra Fenwick's story, "Charter Schools Rise in New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina," appears in the January U.S. News & World Report annual issue on high schools. It is then linked to by Educate Now! and Trouble the Water, a site about the resurgence of New Orleans that is tied to a documentary nominated for an Academy Award.
• At the Pacific Northwest Journalism That Matters conference, News21 National Director Jody Brannon engages in a Q&A with another delegate to discuss the future of news.
• The story "Mixed-Race in U.S. struggle to form political, personal identities," by Maryland News21 reporters Kimberly Davis and Christopher Mathews, appears on Behavioral Health Central, distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. It also appears on Cleveland.com and Daily Me.
• Columbia fellow Sharon McClosky's story on grade school students learning the basics of money during the economic downturn is used by two Gannett newspapers in Wisconsin, the Stevens Point Journal and Marshfield News Herald, and by CBS MoneyWatch.
• Maryland fellow Shauna Miller's story, "Maryland town's ideals in question decades after birth as 'color blind' community" is shared on the McClatchy-Tribune Information Service and is picked up by The Sacramento Bee, Charlotte News & Observer and Daily Me.
• Maryland fellow Christopher M. Matthews's story, "Diversity a draw for mixed-race families in a Philadelphia neighborhood" appears on Daily Me via the McClatchy-Tribune Information Service.
• Northwestern fellow Josannah Birman's story on gender challenges in the workplace, "Knocking on the glass ceiling," runs via McClatchy-Tribune on Daily Me, Cleveland.com , the Grand Forks Herald and the Buffalo News.
• Four elements of USC fellow Deborah Stokol's reporting project on Hispanics embracing Pentacostalism are released by the McClatchy-Tribune Information Service and used widely:
  · "They say a little prayer for you: multi-platform proselytizing": adn.com (anchorage); centredaily.com (Pa.); DailyMe.com; HeraldOnline (S.C.); IdahoStatesman.com; Ledger-Enquirer.com; newsobserver.com (Charlotte); sacbee.com; TheNewsTribune.com (Tacoma); TheSunNews.com (S.C.); and Tri-CityHerald.com.
  · From their mouths, to God's ears: centredaily.com (Pa.); DailyMe.com; HeraldOnline (S.C.); thestate (Columbia, S.C.); IdahoStatesman.com; Ledger-Enquirer.com; newsobserver.com (Charlotte); sacbee.com; TheNewsTribune.com (Tacoma); TheSunNews.com (S.C.).
  · Pentecostals ascendant in Los Angeles' Little Central America: DailyMe.com; IdahoStatesman.com; Ledger-Enquirer.com; newsobserver.com (Charlotte); sacbee.com; TheNewsTribune.com (Tacoma); TheState.com (S.C.); TheSunNews.com (S.C.); and Tri-CityHerald.com.
  · Pentecostalism: From humble beginnings to dominant presence: adn.com (anchorage); blackchristiannews.com; centredaily.com (Pa.); DailyMe.com; HeraldOnline (S.C.); IdahoStatesman.com; Ledger-Enquirer.com; sacbee.com; TheState.com (S.C.); TheNewsTribune.com (Tacoma); TheSunNews.com (S.C.); and Tri-CityHerald.com.
• Two elements of Arizona State fellow Evan Wyloge's reporting project on immigrants seeking amnesty are released:
  · "20 years after amnesty, communities and lives reshaped" runs on several McClatchy-Tribune client sites -- Bellinghamherald.com; DailyMe.com; Kentucky.com (Lexington); newsobserver.com (Charlotte) and Sacramento Bee - and it also is used by the Poughkeepsie Journal, via the Gannett news service, ContentOne.
  · "Small towns are latest battleground in debate over amnesty for illegal immigrants" runs on the sites of several McClatchy-Tribune client sites: Bellinghamherald.com; DailyMe.com; Kentucky.com (Lexington); newsobserver.com (Charlotte) and Sacramento Bee.
• Two stories of Arizona State fellow Dave Kempa's reporting project on immigrants crossing the U.S. border are released to McClatchy-Tribune client sites:
  · "Why do millions risk their lives to cross the border?": Bellinghamherald.com; DailyMe.com; Kentucky.com (Lexington); newsobserver.com (Charlotte), Sacramento Bee and Taiwan News.
  · "Town hopes agricultural changes will keep youth in Mexico": BellinghamHerald.com; DailyMe.com; Kentucky.com (Lexington); newsobserver.com (Charlotte), Sacramento Bee and Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette.
• Two features by Northwestern fellow Leslie Patton, on her beat on urban dating, appear on McClatchy-Tribune sites:
  · "Dating and marriage: Tradition meets tension in Indian-American homes": The Daily Me, Bellinghamherald.com, GrandForksHerald.com, kentucky.com (Lexington), newsobserver.com (Charlotte) and sacbee.com
  · "Professional matchmakers gain in popularity": The Daily Me, Bellinghamherald.com, GrandForksHerald.com, newsobserver.com (Charlotte) and sacbee.com.

• The ABC affiliate in Phoenix, ABC15, produced a segment on News21 that focused on ASU fellow Dave Kempa's story exploring the motivation behind people crossing the border and the plight of a southern Mexico farm town.
• Gannett features a North Carolina package about the impact of global warming on an Alaska village on its Content One special reports on climate change. These topics pages appear on 32 sites. See the example on Delaware Online.
• Arizona State fellow Evan Wyloge travels to Dubai to document the intersection of urban design and labor issues on behalf of ASU's Herberger Institute School of Design Innovation.
• The Visual Student, the blog of the National Press Photographers Association, examines the work of North Carolina News21, winners of several NPPA awards.
• A University of Iowa mass-media and gender class produces a series of Q&As with leading women in journalism, including News21 National Director Jody Brannon.
• LinkTV uses a pair of North Carolina News21 presentations, one on an Alaskan village moving to higher ground and the other on the boom in Texas wind farms.
• News21 National Director Jody Brannon delivers a keynote at the China Media Summit in Shanghai on Dec. 12, with coverage appearing on the Chinese portal Netease, in text with video plus Q&A.

• The cover story of the autumn issue of the Carnegie Reporter profiles News21, a story by Chris Connell. It is also featured in a post on the Knight Foundation's blog.
• C.F. Heath posts an entry, News21: Innovation in journalism, straight from the border and Arizona State on his blog called, "Journalism, Non-Profits, and Where They Collide."
• A California blog, Big Education Ape, examines Columbia's project on the "Charter Explosion."
• Online Journalism Blog cites News21 National Director Jody Brannon's dissertation in a post called, "Five factors that foster innovation in the online newsroom."
• North Carolina fellows Courtnee Woo and Eileen Mignoni earn first place honors in the video category of the October News Photographers Photo Association contests for "Reclaiming Creation," a look at how religion rejuvenates environmentalism.

• Arizona State fellow Evan Wyloge's story on immigration amnesty runs in the Poughkeepsie Journal.
• Columbia fellow Maura Walz's piece on how charter schools in Minnesota are changing communities is used by allbusiness.com.
• Northwestern fellow Melina Kolb's feature on young immigrants' hopes appears on allbusiness.com
• Arizona State University's annual report includes two News21 projects in a section featuring academic excellence and work that offers local solutions with global impact.
• Australian David Howe, on his blog Qed, calls News21 content "sophisticated and innovative."
• Adam Westbrook, a London multimedia journalist, highlights an Arizona State feature in a blog post headlined, "News21's media scroller: A new way of presenting multimedia?"
• Four News21 projects earn honors in the September National Press Photographers Assocation competition. UNC's Jose Corbella won in the individual video category, and the team video category was a UNC sweep: "Down the Line," "Moving to Higher Ground" and "Voices of Roscoe."

• The Chicago Sun Times runs Northwestern fellow Kate Shellnutt's piece on Muslim punk rockers.
• Boing Boing features News21 with a post, "Innovative and inspiring new journalism from j-schools."
• Mark Briggs, in his Journalism 2.0 blog, discusses "News21 exploring -- and producing -- the future of news".
• The Yale Climate Media Forum calls the North Carolina PoweringANation project "insightful."'
• Northwestern News21 fellow Kate Shellnutt reviews her stories for the Windy Citizen.
• John Temple, former Rocky Mountain News publisher, wrote in his blog, Temple Talk, an item headlined, " News21 an encouraging effort by journalism schools and journalism students."
• Poynter's Romenesko produces an item about News21: "J-students' investigative stories get wider distribution."
• The Mormon Times blog mentions Northwestern's feature about Latinos converting to the LDS church.
• Sustain Lane posts UNC fellow Courtnee Woo's story, "Religion rejuvenates environmentalism."
• Three North Carolina News21 projects earn honors in the August National Press Photographers Assocation competition: "The Truth About Energy," "Debating Coal's Future" and "Battle for the Mountains."
• ASU Professor Tim McGuire's McGuire on Newspapers blog discusss News21 as content and approaches deserving the attention of newspaper editors dealing with change.
• The Associated Press summarizes the summer News21 program,"Stories from top journalism students go nationwide."
• The News21 2010 launch press release is shared on LinkedIn communities: Journalists for Life, Innovations in Journalism and International Women's Media Foundation
• The News21 2010 PRNewswire release is posted on MarketWatch, AOL, Forbes, Reuters and Yahoo! among many other automated press release feeds on media sites, including Media Industry Today, Technology Today, TecTrends and Web 2.0 Journal.
• The Daily Tell, a good news blog out of Bellevue, Wash., posts, "Partnership's journalism program releases projects to public."

• The Las Vegas Sun runs USC fellow Jean Yung's story on Asian immigrants in Las Vegas, "Deliberate growth amid boom reflects Eureka owner’s heritage."
• Mother Nature Network links to the UNC story, "Wind turbines: Roping the wind in Texas."
• Latina Lista publishes Northwestern fellow Kate Shellnutt's story, "In the name of Dios: Mormon missionaries bring urban Hispanics, Catholics into the church."
• The Organic Consumers Union redirects to UNC's interactive, "From Pasture to Plate" (available from a site search).
• An Education Week blog discusses USC fellow Emily Henry's package on the social ascension of a farm-worker family.
• Mother Nature Network uses the UNC story, "Climate refugees: Alaskan villagers move to higher ground."
• The Herald-Sun of the Raleigh-Durham area summarizes the North Carolina project.
• Chapel Hill radio station 1360 WCHL airs a segment on North Carolina's energy project.
• Maryland fellow Joey Castillo's Allensworth project is featured in Publish2's Multimedia Standards newsgroup, which focuses on "what makes good multimedia storytelling."
• L.A. Observed lists Berkeley fellow Lisa Pickoff-White among those involved with California Watch, an investigative reporting squad to focus on under-covered California stories.
• TheDiversityProjekt, in its "Empowerment for all People of Color" blog, discussed Maryland News21's reporting of the Loving Day event. The LovingDay.org site also linked to the News21's "Beyond 'Other'" project.
• The JournalismCenter.org, in its "Of Note" section, announces "Changing America: Summer Reporting Projects in Development."
• The Hollywood Teen mentions Northwestern fellow Kate Shellnutt's story, "Coming Out Atheist."
• Northwestern fellow Kate Shellnut's "Coming Out Atheist" story appears on GodDiscussion.
• Mother Nature Network features UNC's "Mountaintop removal: Battle for the mountains."
• Innovative Activity interviews North Carolina fellow Ashley Zammitt about the hows and whys of creating the scene-setting home-page video graphic to explain UNC's "Powering a Nation" project.

• The Huffington Post publishes USC fellow Emily Henry's story, "Cutting Welfare for the Children of Immigrants Will Devastate California."
JUNE 2009
• The Daily Commercial of Leesburg, Fla., covers the Syracuse team's purpose in town to report for News21.
• Innovative Interactivity features a posted titled "UNC launches News21 multimedia project."
MAY 2009
• The Christian Science Monitor's Patchwork Nation blog announces its alliance with the Syracuse News21 project.
• A radio station in Lincoln City, Ore., talks with the Syracuse News21 fellows in town to do their reporting; they summarize their experience in a blog post.
APRIL 2009
• The New York Times article,"J-Schools Play Catchup," focuses on Arizona State University, mentioning the News21 program.
• North Carolina fellow Ashley Zammitt is included at Visual Editors as "31 college students to watch in 2009."
FEBRUARY 2009
• The three Nebraska students named as News21 fellows are the subject of a Media-Newswire.com press release.
• A Poynter column, in a Q&A with ASU News21 Professor Rick Rodriguez, addresses in-depth story-telling techniques.
NOVEMBER 2008
• The Latino Journal addresses entrepreneurial programs of interest, including News21, in a posting called, "Students given journalism advice by Latino Press Execs."
• Arizona Republic includes News21 in its summary of innovative programs in the Arizona State journalism curriculum.
AUGUST 2008
• Phoenix Business Journal covers the appointment of Jody Brannon as national director of News21.