For the past three months, I have been working on major projects as a special advisor to the School of Communication at American University here in Washington D.C. and as journalist-in-residence for the Knight Center for International Media within the School of Communication at the University of Miami.

I just returned from a three and a half-day stint as a multimedia story coach at the Fall Workshop sponsored by Syracuse University for more than 50 undergraduate and graduate students in the Multimedia, Photography, and Design (MPD) departments of the Newhouse School. This year, the students documented life in the nearby town of Skaneateles, New York, recording audio, writing short stories, and shooting photos and video.

Working in Prague on July 4th with college students on a cross-cultural multimedia project, I think about the future of journalism in the United States.  The aspirations of our Founding Fathers were encoded in key documents like the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Among our cherished freedoms, articulated in the [...]

The international reaction to the video that circulated last weekend showing the murder of Neda Agha-Soltan, point to the challenges and realities facing the the practice of journalism in the Internet Age. Bill Mitchell , Leader of News Transformations at the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank in St. Petersburg, Fla., wrote an excellent article [...]

Today, David Simon, former Baltimore Sun police beat reporter, author, and creator of the popular HBO drama, The Wire, spoke about the future of professional journalism in an age of media consolidation and declining newspaper readership as part of his noontime address to journalists and guests at the National Press Club.