Search Results for 'Journalism'

McCormick Foundation Journalism Grants

Deadline Information: Interested organizations should submit a two-page Letter of Inquiry that details the nature, purpose, and cost of the proposed program. The LOI also should include information that demonstrates the need for the progr [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

UM journalism students win RFK Journalism award

Journalism students at the University of Mississippi are among winners of the 43rd annual Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for a series of stories on the Mississippi Delta. The awards were announced Tuesday. The awards will be pr [...]

Posted On : Apr, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

UNC journalism school names finalists for new dean

As another state appropriations cut threatens to pinch the School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s ability to remain relevant in an ever-evolving media industry, the school’s dean search committee selected three finalis [...]

Posted On : Apr, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Auburn University to present top alumni journalism awards

Auburn University is presenting its annual journalism awards to graduates. Among the winners being honored at Friday's Journalism Awards luncheon are Mobile Press-Register managing editor Dewey English. English is receiving the Disti [...]

Posted On : Apr, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism’s best, right here

Last year, Sun-Times reporters Frank Main and Mark Konkol and photographer John J. Kim set out on a yearlong effort to examine the devastating impact of Chicago’s “no-snitch code.”The answers they found, in a city where [...]

Posted On : Apr, 19 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

Journalism professor: former Palin flack trying to kill birt...

Sarah Palin’s former press secretary Bill McAllister wrote this to me last Tuesday night. “If we ever meet, I'll slap you. In a different era, I'd challenge you to a duel.” And Mr. McAllister, not satisfied with [...]

Posted On : Apr, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism major almost finalized‎

Professor Lyn Millner says she hears angel music in her head when she thinks about the Audio and Video Journalism class she'll be teaching next fall with world renowned Al Tompkins from the Poynter Institute. The long awaited Journ [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism student, 21, crowned as General's Miss Mint

Keli Snyder, a University of Southern California journalism student and a television host for Lucas Oil, has been crowned as General Tire's Miss Mint in Las Vegas. “Keli is the perfect candidate for this title,” says [...]

Posted On : Apr, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Chavez awarded journalism prize

He may not be everyone's idea of a crusader for press freedom, but Hugo Chavez has been given one of Latin America's most prestigious journalism awards, for his contribution to "popular communication". The Venezuel [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 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

Journalism has changed forever, says Alan Ramsey

ALAN RAMSEY doesn't have a mobile phone, much less an answering machine, and he shudders at the thought of being on Facebook or Twitter. All this instant access gives him the "heebie-jeebies". "And I'm being very d [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism courses lose NCTJ seal of approval

Journalism courses at a South Coast university have lost their accreditation with the National Council for the Training of Journalists after failing to meet its standards. Directors at the NCTJ have decided not to renew accreditation for [...]

Posted On : Mar, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Sri Lanka journalism students get US scholarships

The scholarships are for the 2011 diploma program. The scholarships provide tuition and a monthly stipend. During the 12-month program, scholarship recipients choose from Tamil, Sinhala and English course streams focusing on print, telev [...]