APM, Arizona State join for public affairs teaching partnership

American Public Media and Arizona State University are announcing a new partnership to "help foster collaborative reporting and innovative storytelling in public affairs journalism." Linda Fantin, APM’s director of network journalism and innovation, and Joaquin Alvarado, its senior vice president of digital innovation, will teach as visiting professors during the spring semester at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix, leading a class on public insight reporting for radio. The students’ resulting work will be featured on national pubradio programs. And David Brancaccio, one of the hosts of APM’s Marketplace, also will be at the school as a Hearst Visiting Professional as part of the "Must See Mondays” speaker series.