Clay Shirky to join New York University journalism school

Leading new media writer and commentator Clay Shirky is joining the journalism school at New York University.

Shirky, who is the author of several books including Here Comes Everybody, will join the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute as distinguished writer in residence and to teach as part of Studio 20, NYU's innovation and web journalism lab. He already teaches within the university's Tisch School of the Arts.

He will also teach undergraduate students on the university's media criticism course, led by Professor Mitchell Stephens.

"Clay Shirky is among the foremost analysts of humankind's new ways of talking to itself - a conversation in which even those without access to printing presses or broadcast towers can participate," says Stephens on the journalism institute's website.

"He brings to our undergraduates a bracing perspective on the past, in which our understandings of media and journalism were formed, and an invigorating perspective on the future, in which these students will work and think. Few are more interesting on the subject of how the latter may differ from the former."

Prior to his appointment at the university, Shirky was a partner at investment firm Accelerator Group and professor of new media in the media studies department at Hunter College, City University of New York, according to a release from the university.

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