ABSTRACT
The arrangement of university nonprofits is often described as a win-win situation: overstretched newsrooms get extra resources while students learn from the best. Can turning classrooms into newsrooms be part of the solution to the journalism crisis? This introduction to the book Newsroom-Classroom Hybrids at Universities: Student Labor and the Journalism Crisis presents the main themes and arguments of the study, a note about the research, and the organization of the book. It also describes the selection process of the four university profits of study – the IRP Berkeley (UC Berkeley), the Stabile Center (Columbia University), the Workshop (American University), and the New England CIR (Boston University).
