Search Results for 'Role'

Journalist Carole Simpson to speak at Acton gathering on Mar...

Acton, Mass. — For Carole Simpson, it was a meeting well worth the wait. The year was 1966. For Simpson, then a 24-year-old rookie reporter, a hard-won interview with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. not only helped Simpso [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Role models and manly things

I was recently asked by a mainstream journalist: "Are you worried about providing male role models for your son?"I answered, as I always do to the question, "No." It’s not that I don’t want him to have male [...]

Posted On : Jul, 06 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

West African journalists commend Ghana‘s exemplary role

Journalists participating in a two week extensive course on conflict situations and resolution on the sub region have praised Ghana for striving to thrive in its quest for good governance rule of law enviable economic management style, e [...]

Posted On : Apr, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Live Q&A: New roles in journalism

Journalism ... it used to be so simple. You joined your local newspaper, passed your NCTJ exams and picked one of three paths: reporter, sub-editor or production editor. But these days, it's a murkier media world. Newly-trained journ [...]

Posted On : Sep, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

Journalism can play a leading role in agenda

Journalism at its best can even have a leading role in the “agenda-building” process though this should not be confused with “agenda-setting” and “propaganda,” N. Ram, Editor-in Chief, The Hindu, said [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

The Role Of Curation In Journalism

Jay Rosen points us to an article out of France that takes a stab at presenting what a modern internet-era newsroom should look like. The point that I find most interesting, that helped clarify a few different ideas for me, is that it sp [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Journalism's role in Angolan literature highlighted

The director of the Journalists Training Centre (CEFOJOR), Albino Carlos, considered this Friday in Luanda that journalism plays a fundamental role in the promotion and affirmation of Angolan literature and cultural identity. Speaking at a [...]

Posted On : Aug, 29 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 [...]

Posted On : Jul, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

What are the new roles for journalism -- and journalists?

Some 15,000 U.S.journalists have left theire jobs in the last couple of years. The New News Ecology means new jobs, new tools, new relationships, new businesses. Journalism's very survival -- at least its values and purpose -- depends on t [...]

Posted On : Jul, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

A not-so-radical idea for preserving journalism's society-bu...

SHARP losses of advertising revenue, continuing circulation declines, massive layoffs of up to 50 percent of the journalists at some newspapers, and bankruptcies and closures at others create a foreboding spiral. The future of news hangs i [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

RADCLIFFE LANDS SLAIN PHOTOGRAPHER ROLE

HARRY POTTER star DANIEL RADCLIFFE has fought off competition from HEATH LEDGER and ORLANDO BLOOM to land the lead role in a new movie about a slain photo-journalist. The 22-year-old will appear as photographer Dan Eldon in Journey, a film [...]