About Engine29

Engine29 is a project about constructing an argument for arts journalism. As the ways we communicate about culture change, journalism about culture changes too. In the age of everyone’s-a-critic it’s important to (re)assert the values and aspirations of cultural journalism at its best. Engine29 was an experiment that brought together 29 arts journalists from across America and around the world for ten days in November 2011 to work on six projects that poked and prodded notions of what arts journalism is… or might be. This website is a document of what they found out.

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Five Areas of Interest

We began this project by identifying five issues in arts journalism that we thought were up for debate. These are ideas we need to grapple with in figuring out what's next for arts journalism. From … [Read More...]

What Was Submitted

During the first nine years of the USC Annenberg/Getty Fellowship, 64 arts journalists participated in the program. That's a talented group of professionals who range across all media … [Read More...]

An Overview of e29 Lessons

The infrastructure that has supported arts journalism as we have known it is falling apart around us. Arts journalism's basic premises and practices are under attack, and it is unclear … [Read More...]

Engine29 is a project of USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.

Engine29 was made possible by support from the Getty Foundation.