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Jordan- Journalists, experts to examine future of Arab media...

Jordan Times) The future of Arab media will be the main topic of discussion at the fourth annual Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) conference, which opens on Friday. Arab and international journalists will debate the i [...]

Posted On : Dec, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Grant expands citizen journalism for public media

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced a $4.1 million grant Thursday to American Public Media to expand its network of "citizen sources" that help provide local news coverage across the country. The grant will be fun [...]

Posted On : Sep, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

On the Media: The price of 'free' journalism

It's been more than a quarter-century since futurist Stewart Brand said, "Information wants to be free." In about half that time, the founders of Google have accumulated fabulous riches by putting free information a mouse cl [...]

Posted On : May, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Media: Show us the money, say unpaid Huffington Post contrib...

Op-Ed columnist Tim Rutten took Arianna Huffington to task for HuffPo's business model (unpaid writers) after her company merged with AOL for $315 million. He wrote: The Huffington Post is a brilliantly packaged product with a p [...]

Posted On : Mar, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Katie Couric on Social Media and Real-Time Journalism

As as I say at the beginning of this interview, I don't even know where to begin, so let's just go ahead and jump right in. In a special three-part series, I'm joined by none other than Katie Couric, anchor and managing edito [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

University of Kansas journalism students to host virtual sum...

Journalism students at the University of Kansas are hosting an online summit this weekend focusing on diversity and social media. The summit begins at 11 a.m. Saturday to discuss ways journalists and nonjournalists are participatin [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Media: Good journalism versus evil market

An academic critic of New Zealand media says journalism is "heading for hell in a handbasket". But Joe Atkinson says there is no point in asking media companies about the new direction or consulting them for a six-part Winter L [...]

Posted On : Jul, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Quality journalism enhances media value

Congratulations to Radio Tarana on its 15th year of broadcasting. Many of the 120,000-strong ethnic Indian and wider communities in New Zealand see Radio Tarana as a good source of information. New Zealand is a socially harmonious countr [...]

Posted On : Jun, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Social media, new journalism? ‎

In 1436, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press and liberated information to the known world through books and print. Two years ago, a new precedent fundamentally changed information distribution. During the Reformation, the libe [...]

Posted On : Apr, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Journalism groups helping to revive Haiti's media

A consortium of journalism organizations announced Thursday that it had formed the Haiti News Project, an international effort that aims to help Haitian print reporters recover from the Jan. 12 earthquake. `SENSE OF NORMALCY' ``Resto [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Journalism has improved in the internet age, say media profe...

For the European Digital Journalism Survey 2009, 350 European journalists were asked what impact the internet had on journalism - and the outcome is surprising. Even though it appears whining is part of everyday journalism work these days - [...]

Posted On : Sep, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Journalism foundation awards $1.8 million in grants to media...

The journalism industry, which has been suffering in recent years due to declining circulation and ad sales, recently received some financial life support from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, in the form of $1.8 million [...]

Posted On : Aug, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Journalism experts discuss Cronkite and history of U.S. medi...

Northeastern University journalism professors Charles Fountain and Dan Kennedy recently sat down to discuss the life of legendary reporter Walter Cronkite, and the evolution of media in America. Never before have people been able to get new [...]

Posted On : Jul, 25 2009 | Comments : 0

The new roles for journalists in a multimedia world

Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, had some old news for the science journalists at the Knight science journalism symposium in Boston. The role of the journalist is changing in an age where the old metaph [...]