Institute of Interactive Journalism Moves to American University

The Institute for Interactive Journalism announced Wednesday that it had moved to American University's School of Journalism, where it hopes to expand its operations following a $2.4 million grant by the Knight Foundation. The Institute, also known as J-Lab, was started in 2002 by Jan Schaffer at the University of Maryland-College Park. Schaffer says the mission of J-Lab is to "help transform journalism for today and reinvent it for tomorrow." The move to American became official in June. American's School of Communication is headed by former Benton Foundation president Larry Kirkman.