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Journalism Research Topic Index

Press Freedom and Freedom of Information

• An Imperative to Innovate: Sustainable Journalism Training in Central and Eastern Europe
  (Jefferson Institute, 50pp., June 2007)
• The Knight Open Government Survey, titled 'File Not Found,' shows that 10 years after E-FOIA, most Federal agencies are delinquent (March 2007).
• The Future of the First Amendment reports on a two-year, $1 million survey of high school students and their knowledge of the First Amendment (January 2005).
  • Survey Update Part I reflects improved awareness of the First Amendment (September 2006).
  • Survey Update Part II shows that students get their news online (September 2006).
• Media Missionaries: American Support for Journalism Excellence and Press Freedom Around the Globe, edited by Ellen Hume (April 2004).
• 'Keeping Secrets:' Public Information in the Age of Homeland Security, by Pete Weitzel of CJOG (Coalition of Journalists for Open Government) for ASNE (American Society of Newspaper Editors)

New Media and News in the Public Interest

• The Internet and the Threat it Poses to Local Media: Lessons from News in the Schools
  (Carnegie-Knight Task Force on the Future of News, January 2007)
• Mandatory Testing and News in the Schools: Implications for Civics Education
  (Carnegie-Knight Task Force on the Future of News, January 2007)

News and Newsroom Diversity

• News in a New America by Sally Lehrman, January 2006. A fresh, thought-provoking analysis of the diversity of American news coverage and newsrooms.
• Diversity: Does your newspaper's staff reflect the community it serves? (2003-05).
• The American Journalist in the 21st Century (April 2003).
• Minority Students in Journalism: Recruiting, Retaining, Graduating: Lessons from Six Experimental Programs (2002).

Journalism Training and Education

• News, Improved: How America's Newsrooms are Learning to Change is based on a national Knight survey of more than 2,000 American journalists and news executives who say they need more training. (March 2007)
• Newsroom Training: Where's the Investment (2002).