Blogs Posts in Fields in Journalism category; 388 blog posts

Birth of long-form journalism

It’s the most important book of 2012 that you are unlikely to read; or at least that’s what the statistics say. Katherine Boo’s new book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, about a slum in Mumbai has won praise from India&rs [...]

Posted On : Feb, 22 2012 | Comments : 0

2 Calif. journalism nonprofits plan to merge

An online journalism startup and the nation's oldest investigative news nonprofit are considering a merger. The two California nonprofits announced Tuesday that their boards signed a memorandum of understanding to hand over management [...]

Posted On : Feb, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

A badge of good journalism: We need 'kite mark' for press st...

A new era of newspaper self-regulation was set out by the editor of the Daily Mail yesterday. Paul Dacre proposed a fresh system of accrediting journalists which could be the ‘essential kite mark’ to safeguard press standards. [...]

Posted On : Feb, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

KT bags five DSF journalism awards

DUBAI - Two months after Khaleej Times got a facelift — a more trendy and sleeker look — the biggest recognition has come its way. The paper won the best Editorial Coverage at the prestigious Dubai Shopping Festival Journalism [...]

Posted On : Feb, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

TV journalism under scrutiny in Leveson inquiry

Lord Patten, chairman of the BBC Trust, Mark Thompson, BBC director general and Jim Gray, Channel 4 News editor gave evidence to the Leveson inquiry into media ethics yesterday, as well as ITN head of compliance John Battle. It w [...]

Posted On : Jan, 25 2012 | Comments : 0

Journalism students launch University of Alaska salary datab...

Student journalists have launched a searchable database of University of Alaska employee salaries, a move they say is designed to add transparency to campus spending while student tuition swells. The effort, led by the Sun Star student [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Journalism Next: January NBA trade rumors

The NBA consists of 30 teams that are split into two major conferences (East and West), and are further separated into three divisions of five teams each. This allows for an extensive network of teams to be intertwined in a web of basketb [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Vibrant journalism watchdog... not sunshine journalism: Ansa...

Underlining that “watchdog journalism” is “vibrant journalism” in a changed and changing world, Vice President Hamid Ansari today said it stands for rights and freedom and does not “entertain and titillate&rd [...]

Posted On : Jan, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Journalism Next | Palmetto High SchoolMiss Manatee about mor...

When one thinks of a beauty pageant, the first things that usually come to mind are gowns, crowns, pretty girls, and a ton of makeup and hair spray. Some people are under the impression that beauty pageants are for girls who are vain, and [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

Journalism via jokes

Wednesday, I redeemed the greatest Christmas present from my son, Jake: tickets to see The Daily Show taping with him. It was fun and funny. But even better, it inspired me as a journalist. I left the studio determined to teach a cours [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Journalism at the Crossroads

Journalism is the first draft of history. On the printed page, on radio and TV airwaves are seized then frozen in time, indelible images of the human drama. Delivered “as is,” facts discourage revisionists from tampering with [...]

Posted On : Dec, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism and sensationalism

But this should lead to the question as to why journalism in Pakistan is sensationalist. I believe that’s because people are more receptive to sensational news than facts-based reporting. Just go to the website of this newspaper and [...]

Posted On : Dec, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Adventures in journalism

Back in 1982, Steven Spielberg tapped into the mindset of childhood so perfectly with his film “E.T. the Extraterrestrial,” that the film became what was then the biggest box-office success of all time. And through the rest of [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Occupy Journalism: The cultural shift in citizen broadcastin...

Could Generation Y end up trusting citizen journalism more than official press releases as its popularity increases? Tim Pool, a 25-year-old protester turned independent broadcaster, has been using his Samsung Galaxy S II to stream the [...]