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Views of the News: Zakaria's Plagiarism; J-School Change; Debate Moderators; Saving CNN

Fareed Zakaria: Everybody Does It?

David Zurawik, Baltimore Sun: "Lame Fareed Zakaria defenses show confused, debased state of journalism"

Rem Rieder, American Journalism Review: "Everybody Does It"

Paul Farhi, The Washington Post: "More questions raised about Fareed Zakaria's work"

Chris Vognar, The Dallas Morning News: "Zakaria and Lehrer: Plagiarism, pride, sports and the pressure to succeed at all cost"

Foundations Want Faster J-School Change

Katherine Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Journalism Schools Are Urged to Adopt Teaching Hospitals' Approach to Hands-On Education"

Kaustuv Basu, Inside Higher Ed: "Not So Fast"

Debate Moderators: Can't Please Everybody

Dylan Byers, Politico: "The debate over the presidential debate moderators"

Tavis Smiley, Huffington Post: "Presidential Debates: Colorblind or Blind to Color?"

James Rainey, Los Angeles Times: "CNN's Candy Crowley talks about hosting presidential debate"

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press: "What Voters Know about Campaign 2012"

Wildly Different Ways to Save CNN

Michael Calderone, Huffington Post: "CNN Promises 'Unbiased' Convention Coverage"

Noah Rothman, Mediaite: "In Defense of CNN: If Not 'Unbiased,' Then Certainly Non-Partisan"

Michael Shane, New York Post: "Saving CNN: Late night and reality shows in works at news channel"

Bill Carter, The New York Tines: "CNN to Promote Nonfiction TV, not Reality TV, Network Says"

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.