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Finnish Innovation Journalism Fellows join top U.S. newsrooms through growing SCIL program

Eight new Innovation Journalism fellows have been announced for 2006. After a one-week kickoff workshop at SCIL, the fellows are now collaborating with U.S. newsrooms connected to the Stanford program. Their mission is to identify and carry out best practices in covering innovation in the news.

The fellows represent influential newsrooms in Sweden and Finland, together with the U.S. ranked as the most competitive economies in the world, according to the World Economic Forum. The Innovation Journalism fellows are this year being hosted by The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Red Herring, Business 2.0, CNET News.com, PC World and the San Francisco Chronicle.

While working with their hosts, the fellows will participate in a virtual community organized by StCIL. They will present the results of their work at The Third Conference on Innovation Journalism at Stanford April 5-7. The opening speaker for the conference is Vint Cerf, “Father of the Internet.” and Chief Internet Evangelist of Google.

“Today, innovation processes drive society, but the news doesn’t cover it very much.” says Dr. David Nordfors, founder of the Innovation Journalism Program. “It’s difficult for journalists to cover the interaction between research, business, politics and culture, fields that traditionally belong to different news desks. We are building a community of journalists that are developing skills for reporting across the beats.”

2006 Fellows	Hosts
Jyrki Alkio (Finland), Staff Writer, Helsingin Sanomat	Tom Murphy, Editor-in-Chief, Red Herring
Erik Amcoff (Sweden), Editor, Affärsvärlden	Almar Latour, Technology Editor, Wall Street Journal
Patrick Baltatzis (Sweden), Writer and Web Editor, Entreprenör	Josh Quittner, Editor, Business 2.0
Eva Barkeman (Sweden), Science Editor, Aftonbladet	Robert Friedman, International Editor, Fortune
Thomas Frostberg (Sweden), Editor-in-Chief, Rapidus News Service	Ken Howe, Business Editor, The San Francisco Chronicle
Erika Ingvald (Sweden), Journalist, Elektroniktidningen	Harry McCracken, Editor-in-Chief, PC World
Amanda Termén (Sweden), Reporter, Göteborgsposten	Harry Fuller, Executive Editor, CNET News.com
Dr. Turo Uskali (Finland), Researcher Innovation Journalism, University of Jyväskylä	Dr. David Nordfors, Senior Research Scholar Innovation Journalism, Stanford University

About Innovation Journalism
The Innovation Journalism Program was started in 2004 at Stanford University by SCIL, the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning and VINNOVA, the Swedish government agency for innovation systems. In 2005 Finland and Pakistan set up national programs for nominating Fellows to the program at Stanford.

Web: www.innovationjournalism.org

Innovation Journalism Conference Announcement:
www.innovationjournalism.org/archive/NF-011806.pdf

More information or comments: David Nordfors, nordfors@stanford.edu
+1-650-804-5184

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