Blogs Posts in Fields in Journalism category; 405 blog posts

The myth of objective journalism

Go on and find a living room, gather around a group of people you know and ask them what is wrong with the media today. You’ll get a whole bunch of responses as everyone stampedes to condemn the various evils afflicting our media. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

SnoValley Star receives journalism honors

SnoValley Star reporters received five journalism awards in the Washington Newspaper Publisher Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. The Star, alongside sister publications The Issaquah Press and Sammamish Review, picked up 29 jo [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Journalism in Trouble? You Can't Tell by the Super-Salaries

With all the million-dollar salaries being thrown around journalism circles these days, you'd hardly know we were in the depths of a media downturn. While much of the journalism profession is idled, redundant, bought-out and collecti [...]

Posted On : Oct, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

Journalism

At first I wouldn’t like the idea of having to do anything with “journalism“. When I would hear Mr. Gertner talking about getting people to join this class I would think, “What the hell? Why would people wan [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Journalism Going The Corporate Way: Satish Jacob

Journalism was not always a fashionable profession. When senior journalist and former BBC correspondent Satish Jacob first told his father about his desire to be a journalist, his dad was quite upset. “Only those people choose jour [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Journalism, sports contribution to country's independence hi...

Luanda - The Brazilian historian, Marcelo Bettencourt, Thursday in Luanda, said that sports and journalism contributed to the country's independence as they served as a ploy nationalists used to gather and design their plans, Angop l [...]

Posted On : Oct, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

‘Journalism is the first draft of history’

The Indian defences had collapsed and it was all over in the war against China. All that remained was the Chinese army rushing down the mountain to take over. At Se La in Assam the Indian government evacuated entire villages and moved ba [...]

Posted On : Oct, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

More insightful journalism needed

The media, of course, feels scorned by Labour because the party rejected the media’s choice, David Miliband. We need look no further than Tony Blair’s recent autobiography to understand the corrosive effect of the Britis [...]

Posted On : Sep, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Vancouver Sun named as finalist for Online Journalism Award

The Vancouver Sun has been named as a finalist for the 2010 Online Journalism Awards for a series about missing women in northern B.C. and Alberta. The finalists were announced Tuesday by the Online News Association and its partner, the [...]

Posted On : Sep, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Southeast Missourian's Sullivan retiring after 45-year journ...

He has a borderline obsessive hatred of squirrels. He's also the rare lover of the much maligned fruitcake. He grew up in the Ozarks "over yonder," and once a year he tells anyone who'll listen to play golf downtown for [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Journalism in jeopardy for Kansas high schools

Many high schools across Kansas may be cutting funds from journalism programs, because of the lack of jobs that may be available for students in the future. If the proposal to decrease journalism funds passes through the Kansa [...]

Posted On : Sep, 24 2010 | Comments : 0

Great Moments In Journalism: Scantily-Clad Women On Police S...

You know you’re dealing with a juicy story when the person reporting the story says, “Okay, it’s not police corruption, it’s not a crime, it’s not national news,” and that’s exactly what we got w [...]

Posted On : Sep, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

PatchU offers internships to journalism students

AOL's hyperlocal project Patch announced that it would be the largest employer of journalists in the nation. Now, according to Editor and Publisher, Patch will team up with several universities to offer internships with credit for jo [...]

Posted On : Sep, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

Wack job journalism

One candidate, who talked of privatizing Social Security, also declared that pregnant rape victims should make the "lemon situation into lemonade."Another candidate says he has reservations about the 46-year-old Civil Rights Ac [...]