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Stroudsburg High newspaper earns journalism Silver Award

The Pennsylvania School Press Association has awarded the 2010-11 Mountaineer, Stroudsburg High School's newspaper, a Silver Award for the overall quality of the paper. PSPA applauded the Mountaineer on its innovative feature storie [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Sun’s website wins international journalism awards

The websites of the Las Vegas Sun and its sister publications at Greenspun Media Group received four major awards today in a competition against some of the largest media companies in the world. The 16th annual EPpy awards from Editor [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

College students can save print journalism

The word on the street is that print media is meeting a slow, painful death. With major newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post laying off hundreds of workers at various instances, one may wonder what the fu [...]

Posted On : May, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Remedy for health journalism

Health journalism in South Africa is both flourishing and failing. It is flourishing because a few motivated and brave journalists have toiled to do it well. But it is also failing, because there is so little coverage of important health [...]

Posted On : May, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

The See-Through-Dress Incident

Last night's edition of Dateline NBC swanned onto the tube bearing the title "Kate Middleton: Her Royal Journey" and proceeded to devote considerable semi-journalistic energies to telling the story of a young woman from the [...]

Posted On : Apr, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Black journalism organization splits from UNITY

The National Association of Black Journalists said Sunday that it is withdrawing from UNITY, a group of minority journalism organizations, because of concerns about its business model. NABJ officials have pushed in recent years to change [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Chronicle, La Voz win top Texas APME honors

The Houston Chronicle and its Spanish language newspaper La Voz won seven top honors and dozens of other awards at the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors' 2011 competition. Texas APME joins the Headliners Foundation of Texas in [...]

Posted On : Mar, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

R.R. Donnelley acquires Brill's Journalism Online pay system

Chicago's R.R. Donnelley & Sons has acquired Journalism Online, a two-year-old company founded by media industry veterans Steven Brill, L. Gordon Crovitz and Leo Hindery Jr.in hopes of helping publishers derive revenue from Inter [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalist Housing Scheme

Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday stayed the conversion of the recreational park at the Journalist Housing Scheme, Harbanspura, into a residential area by carving out plots for 295 newly inducted members [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism group shelves Helen Thomas award

A national journalism group voted today to retire a lifetime achievement award named for Helen Thomas, following her controversial comments about Israel. The vote by the Society of Professional Journalists follows Wayne State University& [...]

Posted On : Jan, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

A brave journalist lost

Today the world has lost not only a brave journalist, but without doubt one of the most courteous people to have graced the Pakistani media industry. Wali Khan Babar was an extremely well informed young journalist and was ever ready to s [...]

Posted On : Jan, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Russia journalists to mark professional holiday

Russian journalists on Thursday will mark their professional holiday – Day of the Russian Press. This date is timed to the release in 1703 of the first Russian newspaper - the Vedomosti (of Peter the Great). The decision to shift t [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

India is finally seeing the birth of alternative journalism

Some journalists get confused and start believing that they make the news, rather than just reporting it. This, and journalistic groupthink, has led to a skewed discourse: India’s supposed ‘centrists’ would be considere [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Law enforcement official loses his temper with 'journalist'

An official in Northeast China's Liaoning province gained unexpected fame after word spread on micro blogs that he had verbally abused a self-proclaimed journalist. On Wednesday afternoon, thousands of micro blog tweets began to emer [...]