Carroll Lands In Cambridge
It's official. John Carroll, the recently departed and much respected former L.A. Times editor, will spend a year at Harvard's Shorenstein Center as the first ever Knight Visiting Lecturer. Here's the release:
CAMBRIDGE, MA: Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government has been selected to host the first Knight Visiting Lecturer, a position for distinguished journalists who will study, analyze and comment on the future of journalism in America and around the world.
John S. Carroll, former editor of The Los Angeles Times, has been appointed the inaugural Knight Visiting Lecturer. He will be based within the Kennedy School at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. The position is funded with a $200,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The new lectureship will provide distinguished journalists with positions at major universities of their choosing for a year of reflection, research and teaching. The lectureship is intended for highly respected, senior journalists who embody both excellence and the highest ethical standards. Earlier this year, Carroll retired after five years as top editor of The Los Angeles Times, during which the paper won 13 Pulitzer Prizes.
"My topic is an urgent one: nothing less than the fate of journalism," said Carroll. "The economic underpinnings of our craft are eroding. At the same time, the Web is offering rich opportunities for journalism in new forms. And, in the current scramble for market share, the work of the principled journalist is being lost in a din of marketing and propaganda."
"As a matter of public policy, a self-governing nation simply cannot do without real journalism," added Carroll. "As a practical matter, we must find ways to make it pay. These are some of the concerns I intend to explore, urgently and, I hope, realistically, in this new role at Harvard. I couldn't be more grateful for the opportunity."
As Knight Visiting Lecturer, Carroll will spend the spring semester beginning January 2006 doing research. During the year, he will deliver a major address regarding the state of the news media. Carroll has been a strong voice arguing the importance of high quality news reporting as essential to American democracy, and he has been critical of corporations that have demanded excessive profit levels. In the fall semester, he will teach a course at the Kennedy School titled "Journalistic Values in a Time of Upheaval."
"John Carroll stands for everything honorable and fine in journalism," said Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center. "We are enormously honored to have him with us as the inaugural Knight Visiting Lecturer, and we salute the vision of Knight Foundation for making it possible."
CAMBRIDGE, MA: Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government has been selected to host the first Knight Visiting Lecturer, a position for distinguished journalists who will study, analyze and comment on the future of journalism in America and around the world.
John S. Carroll, former editor of The Los Angeles Times, has been appointed the inaugural Knight Visiting Lecturer. He will be based within the Kennedy School at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. The position is funded with a $200,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The new lectureship will provide distinguished journalists with positions at major universities of their choosing for a year of reflection, research and teaching. The lectureship is intended for highly respected, senior journalists who embody both excellence and the highest ethical standards. Earlier this year, Carroll retired after five years as top editor of The Los Angeles Times, during which the paper won 13 Pulitzer Prizes.
"My topic is an urgent one: nothing less than the fate of journalism," said Carroll. "The economic underpinnings of our craft are eroding. At the same time, the Web is offering rich opportunities for journalism in new forms. And, in the current scramble for market share, the work of the principled journalist is being lost in a din of marketing and propaganda."
"As a matter of public policy, a self-governing nation simply cannot do without real journalism," added Carroll. "As a practical matter, we must find ways to make it pay. These are some of the concerns I intend to explore, urgently and, I hope, realistically, in this new role at Harvard. I couldn't be more grateful for the opportunity."
As Knight Visiting Lecturer, Carroll will spend the spring semester beginning January 2006 doing research. During the year, he will deliver a major address regarding the state of the news media. Carroll has been a strong voice arguing the importance of high quality news reporting as essential to American democracy, and he has been critical of corporations that have demanded excessive profit levels. In the fall semester, he will teach a course at the Kennedy School titled "Journalistic Values in a Time of Upheaval."
"John Carroll stands for everything honorable and fine in journalism," said Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center. "We are enormously honored to have him with us as the inaugural Knight Visiting Lecturer, and we salute the vision of Knight Foundation for making it possible."
2 Comments:
Another beautiful person landing in a beautiful cushy spot..
What's new!
I am more bummed about OUR John Carroll leaving Emily for BU.
(Does he qualify as a beautiful person? BU is not quite as posh of a name -it thinks it is-
But I wish him well, I just hope GBH John would not disappear from the media scene.)
N.
Whether or not his remarks were extemporaneous, his "Beat the Press" comments are among the wittiest ever, sort of an "Algonquin Roundtable" for Boston. I'm also bummed about the apparent dearth of minor-league John Carroll's on the way up. Add me to the Carroll fans who hope he can do BU and TV both.
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