This project will bring together top journalism researchers to probe major media issues. The task force will create a web site and three major reports, including one on journalism education. This grant, in partnership with the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is one of three grants designed to help journalism education. The other two promote increased specialized teaching at the participating schools – University of California at Berkeley, the University of Southern California, Columbia University, Northwestern University and Harvard – as well as a special reporting project in which students will team up to cover large, complex stories and distribute them in innovative ways.