Welcome

Welcome to the blog of the National Arts Journalism Program. NAJP is the largest organization of arts journalists in America and we represent some 500 critics and journalists active in many art forms, news organizations and geographical locations.

The founding core of the new NAJP is the 131 alumni of the original organization when it was based at Columbia University, the University of Georgia, University of Southern California, and Northwestern University. We relaunched NAJP as a membership organization last summer and are working on a number of new intiatives and programs.

We hope that one of the strengths of the new NAJP will be the opportunity for arts journalists to network and share information. A first step is this blog, which we will use as a place to share news, observations, and discussion of issues in the field. We also want to draw attention to great examples of arts journalism, and we may practice a little real arts journalism here as well.

We start the blog with 13 journalists - Lily Tung, Laura Sydell, Hollis Walker, Bob Christgau, John Horn, John Rockwell, Glenn Lovell, Patti Hartigan, Jeff Weinstein, Donald Munro, Laura Collins-Hughes, and Danyel Smith and me. ARTicles is meant to be a fluid group, with bloggers coming and going over the months. So if you're a member of NAJP and would like to join the blog in the future, drop me a note. If you're a working arts journalist and would like to become a member of NAJP, please check out how to apply for membership.  

And if you want to send a tip, make a suggestion or contact one of our bloggers directly, send an email to: articles@najp.org .