Committee of Concerned Journalists
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The Committee of Concerned Journalists (CCJ) is a U.S.
non-profit consortium of journalists, publishers, media owners, academics and citizens worried about the future of the profession.
To secure journalism's future, the group believes that journalists from all media, geography, rank and generation must be clear about what sets journalism apart from other endeavors. To accomplish this, the group has been creating a national conversation among journalists about principles. The group convened a series of forums in the late 1990s and has offered on-site training to print, broadcast and on-line news organizations through its Traveling Curriculum since 2001. By 2006, the group had offered 1½-day sessions to more than 7,300 journalists in more than 120 print, broadcast and on-line newsrooms.
The committee was founded by longtime journalist and former Nieman Foundation curator Bill Kovach
and Tom Rosenstiel
, the director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism
.
Founded in 1997, CCJ was formerly affiliated with the Columbia School of Journalism. In 2006, it separated from Columbia University
and became affiliated with the Missouri School of Journalism
and its new Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. CCJ is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
, a private, American non-profit foundation dedicated to promoting and improving journalism.
News, Improved: How America's Newsrooms Are Learning to Change
2006 Missouri Honor Medal Recipients
Knight Foundation Awards $2.28 Million Grant to School and Committee of Concerned Journalists
United States
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non-profit consortium of journalists, publishers, media owners, academics and citizens worried about the future of the profession.
To secure journalism's future, the group believes that journalists from all media, geography, rank and generation must be clear about what sets journalism apart from other endeavors. To accomplish this, the group has been creating a national conversation among journalists about principles. The group convened a series of forums in the late 1990s and has offered on-site training to print, broadcast and on-line news organizations through its Traveling Curriculum since 2001. By 2006, the group had offered 1½-day sessions to more than 7,300 journalists in more than 120 print, broadcast and on-line newsrooms.
The committee was founded by longtime journalist and former Nieman Foundation curator Bill Kovach
Bill Kovach
Bill Kovach is a US journalist, former Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, former editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and co-author of the popular book, The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and The Public Should Expect.- Biography :Born in 1932 in East...
and Tom Rosenstiel
Tom Rosenstiel
Tom Rosenstiel is an author, journalist, press critic and founder and director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism , a research organization that studies the news media and is part of the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C...
, the director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism
Project for Excellence in Journalism
The Project for Excellence in Journalism is a non-profit research organization in the US that uses empirical methods to evaluate and study the performance of the press. It asserts that it is "non partisan, non ideological and non political"...
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Founded in 1997, CCJ was formerly affiliated with the Columbia School of Journalism. In 2006, it separated from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
and became affiliated with the Missouri School of Journalism
Missouri School of Journalism
The Missouri School of Journalism at University of Missouri in Columbia, claims to be the oldest formal journalism school in the world. Founded in 1908, only the Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme de Paris established in 1899 may be older...
and its new Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. CCJ is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is an American private, non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts....
, a private, American non-profit foundation dedicated to promoting and improving journalism.
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Knight Foundation Newsroom Training InitiativeNews, Improved: How America's Newsrooms Are Learning to Change
2006 Missouri Honor Medal Recipients
Knight Foundation Awards $2.28 Million Grant to School and Committee of Concerned Journalists