The Committee of Concerned Journalists (CCJ) was a

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non-profit consortium of

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publishers Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

, media owners,

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and

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worried about the future of the profession. CCJ was dissolved in December 2011. To secure journalism's future, the group believes that journalists from all media, geography, rank and generation must be clear about what sets journalism apart from other endeavors. To accomplish this, the group has been creating a national conversation among journalists about principles. The group convened a series of forums in the late 1990s and has offered on-site training to print, broadcast and on-line news organizations through its Traveling Curriculum since 2001. By 2006, the group had offered 1½-day sessions to more than 7,300 journalists in more than 120 print, broadcast and on-line newsrooms. The committee was founded by longtime journalist and former

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curator

Bill Kovach Bill Kovach ( sq, Bill Kovaçi, born 1932) is an American journalist, former Washington bureau chief of ''The New York Times'', former editor of the ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', and co-author of the book ''The Elements of Journalism: What Ne ...

and

Tom Rosenstiel Tom Rosenstiel is an American author, journalist, press critic, researcher and academic. He is the Eleanor Merrill Visiting Professor on the Future of Journalism at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. He was fo ...

, the director of the

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. Founded in 1997, CCJ was formerly affiliated with the

Columbia School of Journalism The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is located in Pulitzer Hall on the university's Morningside Heights campus in New York City. Founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer, Columbia Journalism School is one of the oldest journalism sc ...

. In 2006, it separated from

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and became affiliated with the

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and its new Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. CCJ was funded by the

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, also known as the Knight Foundation, is an American non-profit foundation that provides grants for journalism, communities, and the arts. The organization was founded as the Knight Memorial Education ...

, a private, American non-profit foundation dedicated to promoting and improving journalism.

Sources

Knight Foundation Newsroom Training Initiative

References

External links

The Committee of Concerned Journalists

Traveling Curriculum
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