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Views of the News: A Visit with Pulitzer Prize Winner Hedrick Smith

Hedrick Smith and the American Dream

HedrickSmith.com

Dan Froomkin, Nieman Reports: "Defying Gravity: A gripping history of the 40 years since wealth started falling up"

PBS NewsHour: "Hedrick Smith Answers Your Questions"

Craig Seligman, Bloomberg: "Hey Folks, You Dug Your Debt-Filled Grave, Now Lie in It"

Publishers Weekly: "Who Stole the American Dream?"

Hedrick Smith, Politico: "Obama's populist crusade"

Nitin Nohria, Harvard Business Review: "Envy and the American Dream"

Pope Watch

David Bauder, Associated Press: "Papal Conclave Coverage: All Eyes On the Vatican as Media Converges"

Tom McGeveran, The Atlantic: "How Your Papal Conclave News Gets Made"

Kathleen Parker, The Washington Post: "Media myopia in Rome"

Alyssa Newcomb, ABC News: "Conclave 2013: Electing a Pope in a Social Media World"

Bashing Woodward

Max Holland, Newsweek: "Bob Woodward's Dark Days"

Tanner Colby, Slate: "Regrettable: The troubling things I learned when I re-reported Bob Woodward's book on John Belushi"

Paying For Serious Journalism

Hamilton Nolan, Gawker: "Somebody Should Figure Out How to Pay for Journalism, Says Guy Whose Job It Is to Do That"

Curt Woodward, WBUR Cognoscenti blog: "Newspaper Paywalls: Here's Why They're Really Doing It"

MIKE MCKEAN directs the Futures Lab, the experimental newsroom and technology testing center of the Reynolds Journalism Institute. He founded the School's Convergence Journalism program and serves on the MU Information Technology Committee. McKean is a leader in the School's partnerships with Apple, Inc., and Adobe Systems to transform journalism education through pervasive computing. He is a frequent trainer and guest lecturer at top media companies and universities in China, has helped establish convergence journalism programs at Shantou University and Moscow State University, and has conducted Internet workshops in the United States, the Russian Federation and Albania. McKean has been honored with the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching and the MU Faculty-Alumni Award. He earned a bachelor's degree at the Missouri School of Journalism in 1979 and a master of arts in political science from Rice University in 1985. McKean has served on the J-School faculty since 1986.