Multimedia Journalism

About: Leslie-Jean Thornton

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My research focuses on professional journalism practices, convergence and new media, and I'm particularly interested in the various “digital divides” that may or may not form as a result of changed distribution and reporting forms for news. I've taught online media and advanced editing at the Cronkite School since 2004 after developing similar classes for the State University of New York at New Paltz. I developed and taught the inaugural multimedia boot camp for the Cronkite masters program in 2008 and repeated it in 2009 and 2010. Before accepting a Freedom Forum fellowship for my doctoral work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I was a newspaper editor in New York, Connecticut and Virginia - most recently at The Virginian-Pilot.

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• 09/01/2009 Assignments