WORKSHOP STATISTICS

The Committee of Concerned Journalists’ Traveling Curriculum was launched in February 2001. The first workshop took place at a large newspaper in the West U.S. (PR-3) and included sessions for two separate groups on the issues of bias and verification. That first workshop has been followed by almost 300 more sessions at 121 more organizations that have reached approximately 7,300 journalists nationwide, as of April 2006.

Early workshops were primarily aimed at print journalists, but the curriculum was quickly adapted for online and broadcast audiences. The Curriculum’s first workshop at an online news organization (WEB-1) took place in June 2001 and its first broadcast workshop took place in November 2002. In October 2004, the Curriculum visited its first radio news organization. Workshops at various conferences, conventions, professional journalism organizations, and universities have occurred throughout the life of the Curriculum.

The diversity of the group of journalists the Curriculum has reached is impressive. As of April 2006, the Curriculum has conducted 68 sessions for 1,930 print journalists at 52 newspapers in 29 states. The size of the newspapers that have participated in Curriculum workshops ranges from the very small to the very large. In March 2004 the Curriculum conducted a workshop in a small Midwest town where the newspaper had a daily circulation of 17,125. In January 2003 the Curriculum conducted a workshop in a large Midwest city where the newspaper (PR-1) had a daily circulation of well over half a million. CCJ has offered training to papers across a wide distribution of sizes.

Curriculum trainers have conducted 139 sessions for 2,715 broadcast journalists at 39 broadcast organizations – mostly local television stations – in 19 states and the District of Columbia. Here too, the sizes of the organizations trained varies. In March 2005, and again in July 2005, the Traveling Curriculum conducted workshops at a television station located in the 2nd largest television market in the U.S. In November 2005, the Curriculum presented a workshop at a station in the 152nd sized market out of all 210 U.S. television markets.

Broadcast workshops have transcended size and geographic diversity to include cultural/language diversity. As of April 1, the Broadcast Curriculum has visited five Spanish-language television stations, conducting 11 sessions for 216 journalists.
The Curriculum visited WEB-1’s newsrooms on the West and East Coasts, conducting five sessions for 102 online journalists. To date, those remain the only visits to a “purely” online news organization.

When the Curriculum visited a public radio station in a large Midwest city, it conducted six sessions for 90 journalists. This radio station is one of 16 news organizations to which the Traveling Curriculum has returned for multiple workshops.

Curriculum trainers conducted workshops on six college campuses for students and faculty actively practicing, teaching, or studying journalism. These workshops included 13 sessions that reached more than 450 students and faculty. The universities at which these workshops were held include: Columbia University, the University of Arkansas, Harvard University, Pennsylvania State University, Florida A & M University, the University of Texas, the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and the University of Missouri.

The Traveling Curriculum has been invited to conduct workshops by 23 professional organizations, conferences, and assorted journalism groups. These workshops included 72 sessions attended by more than 2,000 journalists. The organizations with which CCJ has conducted workshops include: the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association (SNPA), the American Copy Editors Society (ACES), and the Associated Press Managing Editors’ News Train program (APME), to name a few.

The Traveling Curriculum also presented a series of workshops at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Journalists working in the regional bureaus of several U.S. and international news organizations attended these workshops, which contained early versions of several Curriculum modules.

See the map of the continental U.S. below – shaded areas designate the states in which CCJ has . The Traveling Curriculum has conducted print, broadcast, radio, or Internet newsroom workshops or presented workshops to academic groups or professional conferences in 41 states.

CCJ has gained international exposure through translation of Kovach and Rosenstiel’s The Elements of Journalism into 12 languages. The book has been published in more than two-dozen countries. This notoriety has led to invitations to meet with foreign journalists and news organizations in several European and South American countries, Canada, Mexico, and Indonesia to discuss the Traveling Curriculum model and present workshops.

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