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Retha Hill: From Washington Post Byline to My Teacher for An Hour

I learned a lot from Retha Hill, director of the Cronkite School’s New Media Innovation Lab, who spoke Thursday at the Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute.

PHOENIX– During my days as a news-editorial journalism student at Howard University, I remember reading stories written by Retha Hill in The Washington Post.

This afternoon that former reporter, who also did a stint at the Washington Post.com Web site, became my teacher, at least for a one-hour session on “Innovation” at the Scripps Howard Entrepreneurship Institute this week at Arizona State University.

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Retha Hill, formerly of The Washington Post, now directs the Innovation Lab at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.


The topic on our agenda was “Turning Ideas into Working Code.”  But this presentation was not about Java Script or DJango or PHP or HTML-5.

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