Search Results for 'Journalism'

VC underlines need for science journalism

Ahmedpur East - Islamia University Bahawalpur Vice Chancellor Dr Muhammad Mukhtar has urged the media houses to introduce Science Journalism in Pakistan and highlight the historical services of Pak scientists as it was necessary to correc [...]

Posted On : Nov, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

What Happens When Journalism Is Everywhere?

Square and reports were streaming out through Twitter and Facebook, it was easy to feel superior to the Egyptian government. How could they not realize that information can no longer be contained by blockades or even Internet blackouts wh [...]

Posted On : Nov, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism eats world

What I’m about to say won’t be on the nightly news. It won’t run in The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal either. You won’t hear about it on CNN and pundits will not sit at a round table and mindlessly bick [...]

Posted On : Nov, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

How a Broward reporter beat journalism’s giants

If Sara Ganim, then a senior at Archbishop McCarthy High School, hadn’t been so obstinate to her parents’ demands she attend Central Florida and not Penn State, would the Coral Springs native have spent the past week hailed as [...]

Posted On : Nov, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Herman Cain harassment story was good journalism

Herman Cain, unwilling to defend himself on the merits against the sexual harassment allegations against him, has taken to having his campaign pass out copies of the “journalistic code of ethics” to reporters who dare ask him [...]

Posted On : Nov, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism is about giving people something important, not m...

JUST WHAT is meant by “positive news stories”? For Eamon Dunphy it is “happy- clappy stuff”. For his former boss, the chief executive of Newstalk, Frank Cronin, positive news would counteract the feeling of “ [...]

Posted On : Nov, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism’s way forward

Earlier this week, the Star Tribune announced it will begin offering readers digital subscriptions this month. Instead of providing audiences with unlimited content on its website, readers will be allowed to view up to 20 stories per mont [...]

Posted On : Nov, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Iranian, Mexican, Thai women win journalism award

A single mother who was harassed and beaten for reporting on the 2009 Iranian uprising, a Mexican journalist whose work means daily defiance of the drug cartels, and a Thai woman facing 20 years in prison for criticizing the monarchy on h [...]

Posted On : Oct, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Guest Post – Charlotte Hawkins: TV journalism

Just like some of the Wannabe Hacks I too graduated this year and am now trying my hand at breaking into journalism. In my case, however, it’s the TV journo industry that I want to crack. When I first researched a career in telev [...]

Posted On : Oct, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism or jabberwocky?

The BBC documentary fails some basic tests of reporting Call it the new style of reporting Pakistan’s ‘perfidy’. Go to Afghanistan, embed with the National Directorate of Security (NDS), interview alleged Taliban comm [...]

Posted On : Oct, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism in Occupied Kashmir

To report human misery without any pressure from any quarter is the basic right of journalists. No body can deny the freedom of expression in the modern age. Nonetheless, journalism is an uphill task in Indian occupied Kashmir. Kashmiris [...]

Posted On : Oct, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism's bold future

I teach media relations at the University of Sydney. It's a tough gig. For journalism and media undergraduates I have to try to conceptualise the value in understanding how public relations strategies - and more narrowly media relatio [...]

Posted On : Oct, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism in Pakistan: Visions of a safer country through s...

The conference was held under the banner of “Attacks on journalists and media freedom” and was attended by about 150 editors and journalists. A commission to monitor attacks on journalists and assess if the media is maintainin [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Sex and journalism in Puerto Rico

When Johnny Depp makes a commitment, he follows through. Depp promised his good friend Hunter S. Thompson he'd do a movie version of Thompson's novel, The Rum Diary, and he has. Sadly, the renowned "gonzo" journalist com [...]