One U.S. journalism educator was less than impressed with his first visit to the annual conference of the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication. Steve Fox, a multimedia Journalism Coordinator at the University of Massachusetts, says he was disappointed to watch so many educators at this summer’s conference in Boston be so “print-centric.” He…
It’s that time of year. Profs across the country are busy preparing their courses for the fall term and producing a detailed syllabus for each course they will teach. How many are willing to circulate drafts of their course outlines, especially online, to seek suggestions, comments and feedback? Not many, in my experience. This blog post…
None of the previous incidents of censorship in Afghanistan (here and here, to cite just two of the more egregious examples) come remotely close to this week’s ban on news media coverage of Taliban violence during the presidential elections….
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Choosing the right journalism school or program is more challenging than ever, given the changes in the industry and the uncertainty about the future of journalism as we know it. This new media journalist and blogger has some useful advice for prospective j-school students about picking the right school. Pat Thornton’s advice is for students in…
Consumer reporting, when combined with investigative journalism, can issue vital public warnings and can even save lives. This is why, writes Cecil Rosner, reports about a seasoned consumer reporter who lost his job over a column that was critical of one of his newspaper’s major advertisers are especially troubling.
Dan Rather’s legal battle is in the news again, after a judge who previously dismissed his $70 million lawsuit against CBS and Viacom restored the claim. Sidney Blumenthal’s Salon.com article, Dan Rather Stands By His Story, provides detailed background on CBS’s alleged manoeuvres to suppress 60-Minute’s Air National Guard story, along with the program’s scoop…
Pierre Desjardins, professeur de philosophie, s’intéresse au déclin des journaux. Selon lui, les quotidiens se transforment en « sorte d’almanach du peuple ».
Articles recently published in academic journals that may be of interest to the journalism community: “A Fresh Crop of Human Misery’: Representations of Bosnian ‘War Babies’ in the Global Print Media, 1991—2006”, by R. Charli Carpenter, Millennium – Journal of International Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2009 “U.K. Television News: Monopoly Politics and Cynical Populism”,…
Garrison Keillor’s writing can dazzle. That’s one reason I sometimes read him. Another reason is that his oddball incoherence can free a reader to cherry-pick sentences …