Benjamin Shors, clinical associate professor of journalism and media production, has been named a fellow at the 2018 Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
The institute, now in its seventh year, is open to journalism instructors who are interested in infusing the concepts and practices of entrepreneurial journalism into their teaching of journalism.
The five-day institute, set for early January, immerses participants in the concepts and practice of entrepreneurship and will be led by Dan Gillmor, an internationally recognized speaker and thinker on new media and entrepreneurship.
In addition to teaching, Shors manages the Murrow News Service, which provides student-produced content to professional media outlets. His areas of interest include rural journalism, environmental writing, and narrative storytelling with 21st century digital tools. His current film, The Blackfeet Flood, tracks the lives of two families struggling to come to terms with the lasting trauma of the worst natural disaster in Montana history.