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Human Rights Journalism Award announced

Intermedia, a non-profit organisation working for journalists’ capacity building and strengthening freedom of information, in collaboration with The Asia Foundation, announced ‘Human Rights Journalism Award’ for journalist [...]

Posted On : Sep, 09 2009 | Comments : 0

Challenges to Journalism Pervade Nieman Anniversary Celebrat...

To past and present Nieman Fellows celebrating the program's 70th anniversary last weekend, keynote speaker Leonard Downie Jr. defined cyberspace as the new battleground for struggles over journalism's ethics and morals and predicted that s [...]

Posted On : Nov, 12 2008 | Comments : 0

What manner of journalism?

Mass communication experts must be cracking their brains with heavy sledge hammer to actually find a new and more suitable adjective to describe what used to be known as Junk Journalism. As for me what is happening today is much deeper than [...]

Posted On : Aug, 01 2008 | Comments : 0

Highlights From The Sidney Hillman Foundation Journalism Awa...

Last night, ThinkProgress accepted the journalism award for Best Blog from the Sidney Hillman Foundation. The event was held at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in Manhattan, where we were honored to share the stage with the other award reci [...]

Posted On : May, 29 2008 | Comments : 0

Breaking Barriers: One Newsman's Impact On Journalism

While Dennis Richmond's extraordinary 40-year career at KTVU has been the focus of several reports during the past week, one story that hasn't been told looks at the many obstacles he had to overcome and how his success has inspired others. [...]

Posted On : May, 20 2008 | Comments : 0

AP's Deb Riechmann, CNN's Ed Henry win journalism awards

Deb Riechmann of The Associated Press and Ed Henry of CNN have won the Merriman Smith Award for presidential coverage under deadline pressure. Riechmann, the winner in the print category, won for her coverage of President Bush's trip to Ir [...]

Posted On : Apr, 22 2008 | Comments : 0

Atex to support ACAP on content management systems

The Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) scheme has received backing from leading technology provider Atex, after the firm announced the standard will be supported on its content management systems (CMS). Future versions of the company [...]

Posted On : Mar, 28 2008 | Comments : 0

demand for new journalism healthy

In the Times Online, Jonathan Weber, founder of NewWest.net, underlines the fact that while the news industry is challenged, the demand for new forms of journalism is healthy.True, no new business model for journalism has appeared tha [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2007 | Comments : 0

Journalism department chairman dismissed

Journalism department professor William Babcock was dismissed from his position as chairman during a meeting with tenure-track faculty and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts Gerry Riposa on Friday morning, according to new acting chairman [...]

Posted On : Sep, 22 2007 | Comments : 0

Simon Waldman, director of digital publishing at the Guardia...

Part evangelist, part futurologist, the Guardian's director of digital publishing is charged with leading the UK news brand through one of the biggest transitions in the industry's history. As he clocks up 10 years at the paper, he tells jo [...]

Posted On : Jun, 30 2007 | Comments : 0

Walter Lippmann - A Journalist believed in Socialism

Walter Lippmann, the son of second-generation German-Jewish parents, was born in New York City on 23rd September, 1889. While studying at Harvard University he became a socialist and was co-founder of the Harvard Socialist Club and edited t [...]

Posted On : Apr, 04 2007 | Comments : 0

Public culture, independent online news and the Tasmanian Ti...

This article presents a case study of an independent online news site, the Tasmanian Times (http://www.tasmaniantimes.com), to highlight and analyse a number of critical issues in contemporary media culture and journalism practice. These is [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2007 | Comments : 0

Factual reporting demands Accuracy and standards

If we talk about the factual reporting, there are certain ethical values which are to be followed by a journalist. First of all reporters are expected to be as accurate as possible given the time allotted to story preparation and the space [...]