The following recordings capture some of the speakers and discussions that form the basis of the News21 spring seminars. Students take part in seminars devoted to a deep understanding of a selected topic prior to their summer reporting and producing experiences.
Sessions featuring a range of journalists and experts in the food safety industry are available via video, while students summarize, critique and expand on the topic in their class blog.
Attorney Bill Marler on food safety lawsuits. (video: password protected for News21 students only)
Linguist Leanne Hinton on the race checkbox on the U.S. Census form (video)
Media technology consultant Skip Pizzi on storytelling for the Web (video)
Professor Ken Goldberg from the Berkeley Center for New Media (video)
The Transborder World of the Southwest
Carlos Velez-Ibanez, ASU Department of Transborder Chicano/a and Latina/o Studies (available in video or audio)
Alex Perilla, director of ASU’s Center of Community Development and Civil Rights (video or audio)
David Sasaki, director and Latin America editor of Rising Voices, a global outreach venture (video or audio).
Lisa Magana, associate professor, Transborder Chicano/a, Latina/o Studies, on immigration (video or audio).
Francisco Lara Valencia, assistant professor, ASU School of Planning, on cross-border planning (video or audio).
Maria (Hilda) Garcia Perez, assistant professor, Transborder Chicano/a, Latina/o Studies, on border health issues (video or audio).
Brady McCombs, immigration reporter for the Arizona Daily Star on breaking news along the border, what to know and how to report this complex subject (video or audio).
Rick Rodriguez, ASU Cronkite School seminar professor, reviews student papers and story development ideas (video or audio).
Jason Manning, ASU News21 managing editor, and Andrew Long, Arizona Republic designer/News21 adviser, on long-form storytelling in multimedia forms (video or audio).
Maria Cruz-Torres, ASU associate professor, Transborder Chicano/a, Latina/o Studies on anthropological research in the state of Sinaloa and its links to the U.S. through agriculture, shrimp farming and drug trafficking (video or audio).
Leonard Downie Jr.
Weil Family Professor of Journalism, Professor of Practice
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, ASU
• Developing story ideas (video or audio).
• Investigative stories (video or audio).
• Walter Reed and beyond (video or audio).
• Steve Elliott, ASU professor of practice, on accountability journalism and Cronkite News Service (video or audio).
• Accountability journalism examples (video or audio).
• Two Arizona radio hosts discuss their story about a supposedly spontaneous rally in Florida during the 2000 election; plus a discussion on an ABC15 undercover investigation about steroids. (video or audio).
• General discussion on strengths and weaknesses of stand-alone investigative journalism sites. (video or audio).
• Examination of digital journalism projects by start-ups like Pro Publica, California Watch, Voice of San Diego and Spot.us, plus how accountability journalism is being financed. (video or audio).
• Examination of investigative journalism and digital journalism projects by stand-alone sites, the Pro Publica/Times Picayune project on hospital conditions post-Katrina and INDenvertimes’ project on rape on college campuses. (video or audio).
• Downie discusses a Berkeley conference on the future and issues of accountability journalism — from funding to staffing and collaboration. (video or audio).
• General Q&A with Downie on various accountability journalism issues (video or audio).
Multimedia Environmental Storytelling: Investigating the Changing Chesapeake
Timothy B. Wheeler, Baltimore Sun environmental reporter on reporting on the environment. (video)
Kathy Phillips, executive director and coastkeeper of the Assateague Coastal Trust, on coastal environmental issues. (video)
Donald Boesch, president, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. (video)
Margaret Palmer, director of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory and professor of biology and Entomology, University of Maryland. (video)
Howard Ernst, associate professor, U.S. Naval Academy and senior scholar, University of Virginia Center for Politics, on his research and book “Fighting for the Bay.”(video).
Tom Horton, former Chesapeake Bay reporter for the Baltimore Sun and author of “Turning the Tide.” (video)
The nation's leading journalism schools come together in this unique program to experiment with new forms of in-depth and investigative reporting.
Fellows travel the country to report on critical issues facing our changing nation and then find innovative ways to tell those stories.