Lindita Camaj
CCN Faculty Champion
University of Houston - Houston, TX
Center for Community News
BIO
University of Houston - Houston, TX
Program Summary: Engage journalism students to report data-driven stories for local audiences in the Houston Metro area in a collaboration with Community Impact Newspapers and Rice University.
Lindita Camaj is an associate professor and the Director of Graduate Studies at the Valenti School of Communication, University of Houston. She teaches journalism classes that focus on digital reporting, fact checking, and data journalism. She received a Carnegie Whitney Grant to develop a resource for teaching data journalism. Dr.Camaj serves as a board member with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for journalism studies and as teaching chair for the Political Communication division of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Bio
University of Houston - Houston, TX
Program Summary: Engage journalism students to report data-driven stories for local audiences in the Houston Metro area in a collaboration with Community Impact Newspapers and Rice University.
Lindita Camaj is an associate professor and the Director of Graduate Studies at the Valenti School of Communication, University of Houston. She teaches journalism classes that focus on digital reporting, fact checking, and data journalism. She received a Carnegie Whitney Grant to develop a resource for teaching data journalism. Dr.Camaj serves as a board member with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for journalism studies and as teaching chair for the Political Communication division of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.