July 18, 2024 | University of Vermont If you pick up Brant Houston’s 2023 book Changing Models for Journalism, you would read about the collapse of traditional media and the changes in the news landscape over the past decade, written by an award-winning journalist who has spent years researching journalism models. You would learn about the digital […]
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Journalism students published in ‘The News-Gazette’
January 26, 2024 Several journalism students wrote investigative pieces that were recently featured in The News-Gazette. Students in JOUR 315: Advanced Public Affairs Reporting and JOUR 483: Investigative Reporting classes, taught in Fall 2023 by Professor Brant Houston, Knight Chair Professor in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting, had work originally published in CU-CitizenAccess, an online newsroom devoted to community and […]
I on the Media
September 8, 2023 “I on the Media” is a series from the University of Illinois College of Media in which faculty, staff, and students at the college address current issues and research. It began in 2020 to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on media-related issues. Hear from our experts In this Q&A, Professor Brant Houston, Knight Chair of Investigative […]
I on the Media: Brant Houston discusses the police raid on ‘Marion County Record’
September 8, 2023 | Holly Rushakoff About the Media Expert Professor Brant Houston is Knight Chair of Investigative and Enterprise Reporting in the Department of Journalism. He is the author of Changing Models for Journalism: Reinventing the Newsroom, co-author of the Investigative Reporter’s Handbook, among other books. In addition to teaching, Brant Houston oversees the online newsroom CU-CitizenAccess.org, devoted to […]
Houston helps preserve investigative news content of FairWarning
The University of Illinois Archives has acquired and is preserving the website of FairWarning.org, a nonprofit investigative news organization founded and edited by Myron Levin. Brant Houston (pictured at right), Knight Chair Professor of Investigative Reporting in the Department of Journalism, helped arrange the archiving of FairWarning’s content. FairWarning produced and published the work of staff writers […]
What does the Chicago Tribune sale mean for the future of newsrooms?
On May 21, Tribune Publishing Co. confirmed that its shareholders approved a buyout offer by Alden Global Capital LLC. The vote gives Alden – an entity with a reputation for aggressive cost-cutting – control over the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun and the New York Daily News, along with a smattering of smaller papers. […]
UIUC researchers awarded NSF grant to track misinformation on COVID-19
Last fall, a group of University of Illinois professors from across campus created a research project to study misinformation about health practices. In the spring, however, they shifted their focus to COVID-19 misinformation, a timely study that essentially would indicate that the Internet “really isn’t an arbiter of truth,” among other goals. This summer, the […]
Houston selected as Pulitzer juror
Brant Houston, Knight Chair Professor in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting in the Department of Journalism, was a Pulitzer juror for the second year in a row. He helped select the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. The judging occurred in February in New York City (when the number of U.S. coronavirus cases reported went […]
Are there alternatives to declining, disappearing newspapers?
Two Chicago Tribune reporters recently sounded the alarm on a perceived threat to their paper based on the past actions of a hedge fund that now owns a large share of the Trib’s parent company. It’s part of a larger story of newspaper cuts and closures over more than a decade. Brant Houston, the Knight Chair in journalism at […]