Search Results for 'Journalism'

Age wins coveted award for journalism

The Age has been named best newspaper in its class in the Pacific region, winning the coveted Newspaper of the Year award at the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association awards. The prestigious accolade was announced at a Pacifi [...]

Posted On : Aug, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Why journalism is still a good major

For Susan Brockus Wiesinger, journalism is more than an occupation, or even a calling. It’s in her blood. Her grandfather was a newspaper publisher in Abilene, Texas. Her mother and father owned five small-town newspapers in the Sou [...]

Posted On : Aug, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Journal grabs 27 awards in state journalism contest

The Poughkeepsie Journal has won 27 awards, including 12 first-place honors, in the annual New York State Associated Press Association's contest. The Journal took the second-most awards in the state for editorials, photos, graphics [...]

Posted On : Aug, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Impatient journalism?

Do bloggers push the envelop for critically needed reporting with Internet’s new tools? Or are there far too many nerds who trawl the Web from one tittle-tattle to the next? “Both,” answers a workshop on mainstream and o [...]

Posted On : Aug, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

The loyalty of African journalism

My interest was piqued on reading the deliberate distortion of the thrust of Eric Miyeni’s views on the role of African journalists in corporate media. The question is not how Miyeni said what he said, but the substance of the po [...]

Posted On : Aug, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Top notch journalism

An award-winning investigative series written by ASU's Carnegie-Knight News21 is now available in e-book form. Breakdown: Traveling Dangerously in America, was produced by Carnegie-Knight News21 fellows working at the Walter Cronkite [...]

Posted On : Aug, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Sangat TV's guerrilla journalism wins fans amid riots

Darting around the city, broadcasting as events unfold, he has created a following among viewers and social media users alike. His direct, and at times, emotional reports on the state of the city seemingly in the grip of looters and riote [...]

Posted On : Aug, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

'Doyen of journalism' and chronicler of the North dies aged ...

ONE of the country's most respected journalists, James Kelly, has died. Mr Kelly, who filed his last column to the 'Irish News' just three months ago aged 100, died at his home in Malone, near Belfast, on Wednesday night, surr [...]

Posted On : Aug, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Newspaper columnist to teach journalism at UGA

Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Cynthia Tucker is leaving The Atlanta Journal-Constitution to teach journalism at the University of Georgia. UGA and the newspaper announced Wednesday that Tucker will start Aug. 12. She's [...]

Posted On : Aug, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Why citizen journalism sounds much better in theory

Citizen journalism has had a great press recently and from reading some of the breathless commentary you might be forgiven for thinking that the future news landscape will consist solely of press releases and netizen comments in 140 chara [...]

Posted On : Aug, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Cash For Coverage - “Soli” Journalism In Ghana

One good product of the democracy in Ghana is the flourishing press freedom. We have large numbers of newspapers, television and radio stations and a vibrant online papers and discussion fora. It is this atmosphere that has driven our fle [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism: but where are the ethics?

When chair of the session, Leslie Cannold (ethicist and columnist for the Sun Herald) first mentioned the name 'Alan Jones' it received a heckle from the audience. The second mention received many heckles but lead to much [...]

Posted On : Aug, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Thomas Peele: News of the World scandal taints good journali...

WHEN THE Los Angeles Times went through another round of newsroom layoffs last month, an editor sent an e-mail to remaining staff members urging them on, reminding them to swill caffeine-laden Mountain Dew and tell their editors to send & [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

UNT Journalism Prof Says She’s “Disturbed” by Mayborn Confer...

There’s going to be a very serious faculty meeting soon at the UNT journalism department, where there is likely to be a very serious discussion of the recent Mayborn conference. (Disclosure: I graduated from the UNT journalism depar [...]