Posts for 'Journalism Bodies' Category

I never wanted to do a nine to five office job and was keen to do something exciting in life. And besides that, news has always fascinated me. Instead of just reading a newspaper, I wanted to write for one. All these reasons made me study.

BA (honours) journalism which I did from Kalindi College. Later, I realised that journalism should be studied only at the postgraduate level while graduate studies should be focused only on getting a specialisation such as political science, history or social sciences, economics or any subject wherein you want to gain expertise.

Graduation studies The BA journalism programme of Delhi University is quite comprehensive and an inter disciplinary approach is followed to make students acquainted with an assortment of subjects such as international studies, history and political science.

Read the complete story

This newspaper invests in its journalism. That is how we are able to send correspondents into the natural carnage in Haiti or the man-made disaster in Sri Lanka. It is how we provide the most widely-read business pages of any daily newspaper. It is how we are able to offer more experience of covering politics than any rival at the same time as maintaing correspondents concerned with, for example, the ocean and the Pentagon, a former England captain on cricket and a column on bird-watching.

Independent, high quality journalism of this kind is anything but worthless. On this simple proposition, we are doing something that has not been done before but we are doing it certain that such an initiative is much less of a risk than failing to take the initiative.

Read the complete story

Jay Rosen points us to an article out of France that takes a stab at presenting what a modern internet-era newsroom should look like. The point that I find most interesting, that helped clarify a few different ideas for me, is that it splits "journalism" into three distinct categories, all of which have a role in the newsroom:

1. Reporters -- who go out and do first person reporting -- creating original stories, not just reposting rewritten wire copy. 2. Columnists -- who "start conversations and give stories another perspective."   3. Curators -- who "'cover' the news by sorting, verifying and editing live everything good existing on the web and in the media. They make link journalism, they make the news more accessible."

Read the complete story

Six journalists of the state including the editor of Hueiyen Lanpao (English edition), Brozendra Ningomba were awarded the Manipur State Journalists' Award, 2008 in connection with the Information and Public Relations Day observance held at the office complex of DIPR located at Moirangkhom this morning. Editor of Hueiyen Lanpao (English edition), Brozendra Ningomba was awarded the Best Editor's Award.

This is the second time Brozendra Ningomba bagged the State Journalist Award. To his credit, he had previously won the award in 2005.He has been awarded for his editorial writings on national integrity and communal harmony.

Read the complete story

The following is a partial transcript; for full story, listen to audio. "The New York Times" recently announced it will eliminate 100 news room jobs. Many believe much of the traditional news media profession may be going the way of the newspaper boy.

Over 100 newspapers have shut down their presses this year, and there are similar shifts in shrinkage in broadcasting in the face of economic hard times and the free media competition of the Internet.

Read the complete story

This smallish site is devoted to the Tate/LaBianca killings. As a lawyer - I've long been interested in the Manson trial, and always suspected prosecutor Bugliosi cut a lot of corners. He placed far more blame on Manson than was warranted by the facts (it was really all about the girls and Tex).

The "Helter Skelter" theory was always such transparent nonsense. But the subject is just too arcane to merit regular book treatment thru a mainstream publisher after all these years. So along comes this guy named "the Colonel" who has dedicated himself to meticulous journalism and blogging about the myths of the prosecution.

He has uncovered a boat load of facts and fascinating arcana for those interested in the trial. He's not saying Mason was innocent. He's just saying other people in the Family played larger roles than Manson, and Manson was more of a follower trying to keep up with his eager beaver family of dedicated, fiercely independent criminals.

Read the complete story

 If Dick Aarons had to summarize in one sentence the most valuable thing he learned while working as a reporter in New Jersey and Philadephia more than 40 years ago, it would probably be this:

"The great thing about journalism is that if you really got interested in something, you had an excuse to learn about it," he said. But Aarons could never have expected the job that a friend offered him in 1961 after he dropped out of Rutgers University would expose him to so many different things he wanted to learn more about.

"He told me, 'You'll meet all kinds of people and see folks at their best and at their worst. After a year, you can decide what you really want to do,' " Aarons said. But the failed pre-med student loved reporting. Aarons quickly moved from the Camden Courier Post to the Philadelphia Daily News, where he spent seven years in the hurly-burly, intensely competitive world of police reporting in one of the nation's major cities.

Read the complete story

Earlier today, I posted a story about the great season Casey Crosby is having at West Michigan. Toward the end, I made a point about how with young pitchers you are always concerned about health and made reference to Crosby leaving his most recent start after the third inning to drive the point home.

Well, not long after the post went up, there was a comment from somebody posting as Casey's brother - his brother, I'm sure; I'm just playing it safe - stating that his early exit wasn't an injury concern. Rather, he has been working on a two-seam fastball lately and had split open his finger from throwing the new pitch.

I checked everywhere I could think of that traffics in Tiger minor league news and only saw mention of his leaving early. There were no details. Was this a scoop? Naturally, my first instinct once I got home was to highlight the news. However, since I didn't want to end up on the AP wire again, this time as the boob blogger who bought into a bogus tip, I figured I'd better do some digging.

Read the complete story

Talking to Ed O'Loughlin, you might get the idea that landing a job as a foreign correspondent then giving it all up to become a Booker-nominated novelist was the most normal career progression for a writer.  He seems slightly bewildered to be asked about his work, and is not at all the garrulous raconteur, unlike many who have travelled the world in search of stories. But delve a little deeper and you find that journalism was perhaps never his natural home.

"I went into it because you didn't have to get up in the morning, which was a big thing in those days," he recalls. That was in Dublin in the early 1990s, where O'Loughlin had just graduated in English from Trinity College.

Although he grew up in Ireland, near Kildare Town, from the age of six, he was born in Toronto and spent his early years in Edmonton, Alberta. His father was an engineer and his mother a doctor, and Canada suited them, but after a stint in Manchester, the family settled in Ireland, his fathe's homeland, where he was known as "the Yank" at school, giving him a lifelong empathy for misidentified Canadians.

Read the complete story

Journalism is said to be the second oldest profession – people’s curiosity about themselves, their government and commerce being so compelling.

The only difference in journalism of 3,500 B.C. clay tablets and today’s mass media, is the technology of gathering and disseminating news.

A great leap forward was the invention of movable type by Johannes Gutenberg in 1455 by which he could speedily and cheaply print the Holy Bible.

Thereafter, various entrepreneurs – generally postmasters -- produced “fly sheets” of news at irregular intervals.

Read the complete story