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Environmental Journalism: Environmental journalism is the collection, verification, production, distribution and exhibition of information regarding current events, trends, issues and people that are associated with the non-human world with which humans necessarily interact. To be an environmental journalist, one must have an understanding of scientific language and practice, knowledge of historical environmental events, the ability to keep abreast of environmental policy decisions and the work of environmental organizations, a general understanding of current environmental concerns, and the ability to communicate all of that information to the public in such a way that it can be easily understood, despite its complexity. Global Environmental Journalism Initiative GEJI, the Global Environmental Journalism Initiative, is a project started in 2008 by four Australian and five European universities that are leaders in journalism education in their countries.

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Congratulations to Radio Tarana on its 15th year of broadcasting. Many of the 120,000-strong ethnic Indian and wider communities in New Zealand see Radio Tarana as a good source of information. New Zealand is a socially harmonious country where people from all ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds can stand shoulder to shoulder as confident, equal and proud citizens.

As Ethnic Affairs Minister, I wish to maintain this reputation recognised by the Economist when it named New Zealand as the most peaceful country in the world. Communication is important to enhance understanding and mass media is a very important communication tool.

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A University of Nebraska-Lincoln broadcast journalism student will compete in the 50th annual National Broadcast News Championships of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program.

Brandi Kruse of Glyndon, Minn., is 1 of 5 finalists from around the country to have been selected to compete in the championships June 8-12 in New York City. Writing and photo finalists will also compete in the championships. Awards range from $1,500 to $5,000.

Kruse is a member of the ABC News On Campus Bureau at UNL and has worked as a reporter and anchor at Lincoln radio station 1240 KFOR-AM. Kruse has also held positions with the news and public affairs unit at NET Television on several political and social documentaries.

An international award for online journalism is open for entries with a first prize of €2,000 up for grabs.

The Digital Heretics Journalism Award accepts entries in either text, audio, animation, video or photos.

The prize scheme is part of the International Journalism Festival which is being held from 21 to 25 April in Italy.

All submissions must have been published in between 1 January 2009 and 31 January 2010.
Stephen Pearse, senior campaigns officer with the National Union of Journalists, is leaving the union today to work in Brussels.

It means that the campaigns and communications office will have no full-time permanent staff following the recent departure of Miles Barter.

Interim cover is expected to be provided as the NUJ continues its recruit process for both positions – details of which can be found.

Amid the bankruptcies, layoffs and budget cuts in journalism, one beat has prevailed. Behold the rise of the social media director.

About 200 social media directors now exist at newspapers, book publishers, magazines and television news stations. Most have taken on their positions in the last two years. Rarely offline, their job is to tweet, ping, blog and friend-find throughout the day, building and interacting with new audiences, promoting media brands and sometimes breaking news.

It's a tweetfest out there thanks to SMDs like Woody Lewis, a former rock musician and investment banker. Having advised 15 news organizations on how to craft social media strategies, Lewis now heads social media for independent publisher Chronicle Books and authors a blog, "Save the Papers," which debates how broadsheets can use social media to survive. How? First, by rethinking content. He calls news a "legacy process that is becoming a social phenomenon."

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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.

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interactive team seeks interns who want real-world, practical experience with coverage of local news and business, entertainment and sports. We need at least a couple of people to , as well as a versatile journalist to help us with all of the cool things happening. We also have spots open.We want solid journalists who can write their backsides off and who aren’t afraid of multimedia or working directly with a fairly sophisticated content management system.

Some frequently asked questions about these internships: •How long do these internships last? A minimum of roughly three months and up to nine months. •Are they paid internships? Although the internships are unpaid, we will work with you and your school to make sure any of your needs or specifications are met, and offer references upon successful completion of the internship.

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Concerned that journalism's economic problems are reducing Americans' understanding of science, medicine and other research, 35 of the nation's top universities — including Stanford and UC-Berkeley — on Tuesday announced they will feed their own accounts of their discoveries directly to top news sites on the Internet.

Under the plan, the universities have formed what is essentially their own nonprofit wire service, called Futurity, to provide articles to popular Web sites such as Yahoo News and Google News, along with MySpace and Twitter.

"We've been really concerned. Our preference would be to have the level of coverage of science and research that we enjoyed for decades," said Lisa Lapin, assistant vice president for university communications at Stanford.

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There has been something working on my mind a lot lately.  In April, as part of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, I did a week-long arts journalism course with respected journalist, Gwen Ansell. The course was attended by journalists and writers from all backgrounds, studying jazz as a movement with a specific focus on South Africa, finally culminating in the festival.

In that week, I learnt more about South African jazz and its roots than any textbook could have taught me, and it was only then that I learnt the importance of having educated critics. I was shocked to find out that Gwen's course was one of the only Arts Journalism education programmes in the country, and that there is no university in South Africa that specialises in this field as part of their curriculum or offers any degrees on it.

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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.

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