Search Results for 'Journalism'

Deceased farmers'' daughter to pursue journalism with a miss...

The already distressed family could hardly afford the costly medical treatment and got into even more financial trouble. However, against all odds, the youngest sibling continued with her education. After her primary education in the vill [...]

Posted On : Aug, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

A Rift Divides Members of Journalism Groups

As the National Association of Black Journalists opens its annual conference in Philadelphia on Wednesday, a topic of conversation is likely to be its recent efforts to get more black anchors on prime-time news programs. But another is [...]

Posted On : Aug, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism fellows to gather in Los Angeles to explore commu...

USC Annenberg announced journalism awards totaling $53,500 to support investigative and explanatory reporting projects on topics ranging from health in America's underserved communities to the challenges for health reform and quality [...]

Posted On : Aug, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Where can we find unbiased journalism?

A Hemingway novel ends with the line, "Isn't it pretty to think so?" I've always wanted to know what was true, not merely what I might want to believe -- including about Obama. I assume some WSJ readers are the same way. [...]

Posted On : Jun, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

FCC hand-wringing over the future of journalism

AFTER a year of study by the Federal Communications Commission into the future of journalism, its report raises a concern about chafing — from intense hand-wringing. So many words and so few ideas or leadership on how to proceed. [...]

Posted On : Jun, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Wanted: Consumer journalism

Many a moon ago, when I was employed at Fox News in New York, I had the privilege of working with many gifted people, both in front of and behind the camera. One of the people I never got to work with directly was Neil Cavuto, Fox’s [...]

Posted On : Jun, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism students visit Poland as football 'referees'

Poland's leading newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza, is playing host to 21 journalism students to test Poland's readiness to host football's 2012 Euro championship. The students, from City University London, will visit Poland's 21 [...]

Posted On : Jun, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

A Victory of Sorts for Journalism Ethics in the Former Yugos...

Serbia’s state-run television RTS apologized last week to the publics of the former Yugoslavia for serving as a propaganda tool of wartime Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic. This move is likely to be followed by apologies from [...]

Posted On : Jun, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Key role in investigative journalism now played by NGOs

Paul Lashmar, a former investigative journalist and now acting head of journalism at Brunel University, sees reasons to be cheerful about the state of investigative journalism in Britain. He points to "the rise of journalism burea [...]

Posted On : Jun, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Objective journalism lives, amid mass of opinion

A US media study by professors from the University of Albany in New York has found that despite reports of its death, objective journalism is thriving in a range of formats. The study's authors say theirs is the first systematic inves [...]

Posted On : Jun, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Canadian Journalism Foundation to honour Robert MacNeil at a...

Robert MacNeil entered the media industry reluctantly, hoping the skills he acquired as an aspiring playwright would be enough to help him make ends meet as a journalist. He accumulated more than just a stream of steady paycheques over th [...]

Posted On : Jun, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Excellent journalism, like cream, always bubbles to the top

People who read newspapers are not fools. They are very intelligent human beings. They know the charlatans from the gbeykis ( The true professionals). When they read newspapers, they know the journalists who are sincere about what t [...]

Posted On : May, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism and sexual harrassment

Surely if the responsible authorities do not intervene in the high numbers of sexual harassment cases which have just been reported by young female journalists aspiring to penetrate into the mainstream media industry, very few of them wil [...]

Posted On : May, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

College students can save print journalism

The word on the street is that print media is meeting a slow, painful death. With major newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post laying off hundreds of workers at various instances, one may wonder what the fu [...]