Coumbia Journalism School Webcast – Think Like a Newsroom Manager

The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism presents a special webcast to talk about the Case Method, a powerful new tool available for journalism teachers, to help them train students to think like newsroom managers and industry leaders.

Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009
1-2 pm ET
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ABOUT THE CASE METHOD: The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism two years ago launched a new program, the Knight Case Studies Initiative. Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Initiative aims to give journalism educators a powerful new tool for the classroom. The Case Method–long familiar to students of business, medicine, law and other professions—is an interactive, discussion-based approach to learning which asks students to think for themselves by confronting them with real-life dilemmas of leadership, management and ethics.

Join us to learn what works about this teaching method! You’ll hear from both Initiative Director Kirsten Lundberg, and from Prof. Sheila Coronel, an experienced case teacher and director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism.

In the Case Method classroom, students put themselves in the shoes of a protagonist facing a decision to which there is no “right answer.” Students are expected to analyze the problem, identify options, predict the likely consequences, prescribe a solution, defend their views, and persuade their colleagues. The vicarious real-world experience students gain in the case classroom will stand them in good stead when they become news industry leaders and managers in their own right.

Learning happens on three levels: students master the content; they acquire and hone critical thinking, judgment and behavioral skills; and they assess their personal values. Faculty have found this teaching method stimulating to student and instructor alike. One teacher said: “I found that this case allowed us to go deep on a number of tactical and strategic investigative-reporting lessons that would otherwise be hard to teach.” A student observed that: “This case study was so useful to me because it introduced a conflict that I could ACTUALLY see one of us encountering in our own professional lives.” To see more about Case Method and journalism, go to: http://casestudies.jrn.columbia.edu – or e-mail Kirsten Lundberg at kol2101@columbia.edu

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS: Prof. Sheila Coronel is director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. A journalist since 1982, she worked for decades in the Philippines, where she founded the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism to promote investigative reporting and train journalists. She is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including Coups, Cults & Cannibals. She joined the Columbia faculty in 2006 and was one of the first in the school to adopt case studies for her teaching.

Kirsten Lundberg started the Knight Case Studies Initiative in 2007. She was a reporter in Brussels, London, Stockholm and Moscow in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and later became a case writer for the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She has run numerous workshops on Case Method, both in the US and abroad. In just 2.5 years, the case collection at the Journalism School has grown to nearly 25 cases.

To see more about Case Method and journalism, go to: http://casestudies.jrn.columbia.edu – or e-mail Kirsten Lundberg at kol2101@columbia.edu

MODERATOR: Prof. Sree Sreenivasan, Dean of Student Affairs and member of the digital media faculty

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