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Topic: Creativity and Innovation: Arts Journalism
Arts journalism is a branch of journalism concerned with the reporting on and discussion of the arts. Very few education programs dedicated solely to arts journalism currently exist, with Syracuse University creating the first accredited program in 2005. (See Goldring Arts Journalism Program below.)
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National Arts Journalism Program (NAJP)
NAJP is America’s largest organization dedicated to the advancement of arts and cultural journalism. The NAJP has produced research, publications, and discussions, and works to bring together journalists, artists, news executives, cultural organization administrators, funders, and others concerned with arts and culture in America today.
In 1998, NAJP published Reporting the Arts, the first comprehensive analysis of arts coverage in mainstream American news media. The report studied trends in space, format, and coverage of arts and culture in daily newspapers from 10 communities and from selected national news outlets.
Five years later, NAJP revisited the same 10 communities to observe what had changed in their cultural lives and local media coverage. Reporting the Arts II identified troubling trends in overall space, format, and coverage. But an interest in arts news reporting and new approaches to arts features and cultural criticism may suggest opportunities for local arts coverage and daily newspaper format. Together, the publications yield a snapshot of how news organizations around the country are covering culture, and more importantly, how their approaches to arts coverage have evolved.
National Endowment for the Arts: Arts Journalism
The NEA Arts Journalism Institutes are a series of intensive, introductory professional training programs for journalists who cover dance, theater, musical theater, classical music, and opera. To date, more than 250 journalists from all 50 states— representing print and broadcast organizations, as well as independent writers—have participated in the program, which has received universal acclaim from participants, faculty, and arts organizations.
Education in Arts Journalism:
Goldring Arts Journalism Masters Program at Syracuse University
Traditionally, arts journalists have started out either as artists who learned to write or as writers who became passionately interested in writing about an art form. The Goldring Arts Journalism Program has been created to meet the varying needs of arts journalists by offering a uniquely flexible combination of courses to meet the educational objectives of each student, while offering them the latest training in multimedia communications.
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