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Origin and scope of the term Journalist

A Cameraman-Reporter during a MINUSTAH mission in 2007In the early 19th century, journalist simply meant someone who wrote for journals, such as Charles Dickens in his early career. In the past century it has come to mean a writer for newsp [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2007 | Comments : 0

How Photojournalism begins?

The practice of illustrating news stories with photographs was made possible by printing and photography innovations that occurred between 1880 and 1897. While newsworthy events were photographed as early as the 1850s, printed news stories [...]

Posted On : Apr, 09 2007 | Comments : 0

Modern journalists

The explosion of modern media, including the creation of Internet-based news sources and the possibility that citizen journalism will greatly expand the field, has made it all but impossible to identify which journalists are notable, in the [...]

Posted On : Apr, 07 2007 | Comments : 0

Science journalism

Science journalism is a relatively new branch of journalism, which uses the art of reporting to convey information about science topics to a public forum. The communication of scientific knowledge through mass media requires a special relat [...]

Posted On : Apr, 04 2007 | Comments : 0

History of Public Journalism

The public journalism movement emerged after the 1988 U.S. presidential election as a countermeasure against the eroding trust in the news media and widespread public disillusionment with politics and civic affairs, a journalism professor a [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2007 | Comments : 0

Standard Coverage of Political Campaigns

In standard coverage of political campaigns, where one goal is always to appear nonpartisan and above the fray, the master narrative has for a long time been winning— who’s going to win, who seems to be winning, what the candida [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2007 | Comments : 0

Press Rollback in US

Press rollback, the policy for which McClellan signed on, means not feeding but starving the beast, downgrading journalism where possible, and reducing its effectiveness as an interlocutor with the President. This goes for Bush theory, as w [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2007 | Comments : 0

People as former Audience

The “former audience” is Dan Gillmor’s term for us. (He’s one of our discoverers and champions.) It refers to the owners and operators of tools that were one exclusively used by media people to capture and hold their [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2007 | Comments : 0

Modern Scale and the Away ness of Things

I once tried to characterize this condition as the "away ness" of things. The harbor town small enough so that everyone knows when a new ship arrives needs no provider of shipping news. By going about its business, the town alread [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2007 | Comments : 0

The News and Schmooze Explosion

A network of online communities in the Rocky Mountain region—included a link to a photo essay on the Montana legislature, a chapter from a guest writer’s book on pantheism, and a “snowblog” item announcing the death [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2007 | Comments : 0

Digital Journalism

Digitalization of news production and the diffusion capabilities of the internet are challenging the traditional journalistic professional culture. The concept of participatory or citizen journalism proposes that amateur reporters can act [...]

Posted On : Mar, 22 2007 | Comments : 0

What do beginning journalists do?

Journalists who are starting their careers normally do not do commentary or opinion pieces. Rather, they cover hard news stories such as community news, courts, crime and speeches by notable people. In broadcast, beginning journalists also [...]

Posted On : Mar, 17 2007 | Comments : 0

What is Journalism?

Journalism is the timely reporting of events at the local, provincial, national and international levels. Reporting involves the gathering of information through interviewing and research, the results of which are turned into a fair and bal [...]