Search Results for 'Journalism'

Journalism just getting teeth pulled

"Journalism is dead" is a popular contemporary saying - so popular, in fact, that it is consistently and ironically echoed by the media. Newspapers and cable stations alike have been prematurely lamenting their own demise [...]

Posted On : Oct, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

Gawker COO: Our Journalism Is Like Stir-Fry

The past few weeks have seen two major New York City magazines publishing long-form feature articles on Gawker Media founder Nick Denton – provocateur, raconteur, lover of bicycles and the choice table at SoHo’s b [...]

Posted On : Oct, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Boston U journalism students to write for Globe

Boston University students will contribute work they do for class to Boston.com, a website owned by The Boston Globe, which is part of The New York Times Co., the company said Tuesday. The photos and stories will be part of the site' [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Journalism school marks 100 years

Although flat-screen computers, mobile phones, high-speed video and audio equipment and an excess of espresso drinks characterize today’s journalism industry, 100 years ago, journalists still were plucking away at typewriters. Toda [...]

Posted On : Oct, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Journalism as caricature: The Rahmbo image

Rahm Emanuel's candidate may have won the presidency, but that didn't dull Emanuel's serrated edge. "He's a guy who stabbed a steak knife into the table at Doe's restaurant after Bill Clinton's election," [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Journalism school dean to step down

Jean Folkerts, dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, announced today that she will step down at the end of the year to teach. The dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School, Jim Dean, will lead the national search for h [...]

Posted On : Oct, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

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 [...]