July 18, 2024 | University of Vermont
If you pick up Brant Houston鈥檚 2023 book Changing Models for Journalism, you would read about the collapse of traditional media and the changes in the news landscape over the past decade, written by an award-winning journalist who has spent years researching journalism models.
You would learn about the digital age, blogging, nonprofits, investigative centers and the rise in university-led student reporting programs鈥攚hich is fitting because Houston founded his own such program in 2009 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The watchdog community reporting outlet, , is run entirely by him and his managing editor, Dylan Tiger, as well as a cadre of student journalists.