Category Archives: About the Project

What is the News21 Project?

Posted on September 7, 2011 by John Andrews

The Project on News in the 21st Century, conducted by Colorado Christian University through its Centennial Institute think tank, was launched in July 2011 as a joint initiative in classroom instruction and civic engagement to address the growing concerns of … Continue reading →

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A Force No One Can Escape

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Jay Ambrose

Back in 1835, in his great book Democracy in America, the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville announced something he found in this country that “actually surpasses belief” – the extraordinary number of periodical and occasional publications.

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Media Losing Their Way

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Stephen Keating

“Be seekers of truth” is one of the strategic objectives of Colorado Christian University. It also is – or should be – the purpose of journalism. Yet, today we see the news media losing their way, fractured by technology and … Continue reading →

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For an Informed and Participative Citizenry

Posted on September 7, 2011 by John Dendahl

Natural human interest in the salacious apparently spans at least two millennia. Virgil’s Aeneid (25 B.C.) remarks upon “rumor, than whom no other evil thing is faster.”[1] Already in the 1860s, C.H. Spurgeon could cite as an “old proverb” the … Continue reading →

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