By: E&P Staff John Carroll, former editor of the Los Angeles Times, has been selected as the first Knight Visiting Lecturer, and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government has been picked as the first host.
Carroll, who left the Times earlier this year, 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. "My topic is an urgent one: nothing less than the fate of journalism," Carroll said in a statement. "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."
The new Knight grant will provide a distinguished journalist with a position at a major university of his or her choosing for a year of research and teaching.
"John Carroll is one of the most important journalists of his generation," Alberto Ibarg?en, president and CEO of Knight Foundation, said in a press release. "We're glad to help make possible an opportunity to reflect on his experience and on journalism in society at a time of transformational change. Students and scholars at Harvard will benefit, as well as the virtual, worldwide community of people who care about the uses of information in an open society."
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.
"John Carroll stands for everything honorable and fine in journalism," Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center, said in a statement.
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