Eric Newton

Eric Newton is an American journalist and Vice President/Journalism Program at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, an organization created by one of the founding families behind Knight Ridder.

Newton earned a B.A. in journalism from San Francisco State University in 1979 and his master's degree in international studies from the University of Birmingham.

He joined the "Oakland Tribune" as a copy boy in 1977. Turned down for a job as a reporter there in 1979, he left to edit newspapers in Mill Valley and Richmond before he returned to the "Tribune" in 1984 as a copy editor. Burke, Anne (Spring/Summer 2003). [http://www.sfsu.edu/~sfsumag/archive/sp_sum_03/alumni1.html Newton's Law:Education+Training=Good Journalism.] "SFSU Magazine" ]

Newton was managing editor of the "Tribune" when it won more than 150 awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. He has since been a Pulitzer Prize juror four times and has written a book on Pulitzer Prize-winning photography.

In 1992, Newton launched the Pacific Coast Center for the Freedom Forum. In 1994, he created the master content plan as founding managing editor for the Newseum, editing and coordinating all exhibit content. From its opening in 1997 until 2000, he hosted programs in the Newseum's broadcast studio and created dozens of traveling exhibits. Newton joined Knight Foundation in June 2001. He was founding president of the First Amendment Project, a nonprofit law firm representing citizens seeking access to government records. Newton shared in a 2004 Peabody Award for "", a television program created for LinkTV.

Newton became involved in the 2005 Seigenthaler incident after replacing a vandalized Wikipedia biography of John Seigenthaler Sr. with a copyrighted official biography. cite news | last=Newton | first=Eric | title=Wicked truths about Wikipedia show weakness of online encyclopedia | date=11 January 2006 | publisher=Sun-sentinel.com | url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/965544671.html?did=965544671&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&date=Jan+11%2C+2006&author=Eric+Newton+Special+Correspondent&pub=South+Florida+Sun+-+Sentinel&desc=WICKED+TRUTHS+ABOUT+WIKIPEDIA] After that was removed for violating Wikipedia policy, Newton's subsequent edits explaining how he had tried to correct Wikipedia also were rejected as a violation of .

References

Bibliography

*Newton, Eric (ed.). "The Bay Area at War". Heyday Books (March 1 1991) ISBN 0-930588-53-3
*Newton, Eric. "Crusaders, Scoundrels, Journalists : The Newseum's Most Intriguing Newspeople". Crown; 1st edition (December 9 1999) ISBN 0-8129-3080-0
*Newton, Eric. The Journalism Quiz. "Columbia Journalism Review" (May 1 2000) ISBN B0008IWV0Q
*Newton, Eric. Newsman with a Cause. "American Journalism Review". (April 1 2001) ISBN B0008HTA6K
*Rubin, Cyma, Newton, Eric (eds.). "Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs". W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition (November 24 2003). ISBN 0-393-32282-3
*Newton, Eric. [http://www.knightfdn.org/default.asp?story=news_at_knight/newsletters/65_summer2005/eric-newton-speech.html Does a 21st century journalist really have a right to complain?] Speech delivered at John S. Knight Fellowships Reunion and Conference at Stanford University, July 9 2005.

External links

* [http://www.knightfdn.org/about/staff/eric_newton.html Eric Newton biography] via Knight Foundation
* [http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/dynamic/eric-newton.cfm Eric Newton biography] via Consumers Union