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February 3, 2010 •
Digitale nyhende •
by Kate Nacy
Study finds vast majority of reporters and editors utilize social media outlets when researching stories. Conducted by Cision and Don Bates of The George Washington University’s Master’s Degree Program in Strategic Public Relations,...
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February 3, 2010 •
Digitale nyhende •
by Kate Nacy
News reporter scores low on CareerCast.com’s 2010 job ranking, just ahead of the ever-glamorous stevedore, a career focused on the loading and unloading of cargo. CareerCast ranked a total of 200 jobs, scoring and separating data...
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January 19, 2010 •
Medieøkonomi •
by Kate Nacy
All things free must come to an end, right? So it is for the post-2007 free Internet access to nytimes.com content. According to New York Magazine, “Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the paper will begin...
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January 19, 2010 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Kate Nacy
Last November, a conference hosted by the Institute of Applied Media Studies in Winterthur, Switzerland, examined the relationships among journalism, scholarship and the public interest. Barbie Zelizer, director of the Annenberg Scholars...
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January 14, 2010 •
Etikk & Kvalitet •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
When and under which conditions is journalism in the “public interest?” If one does not complacently assume whatever journalists publish is serving the common good, one gets into trouble finding a plausible answer to this question,...
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January 14, 2010 •
Journalistiske prosjekt •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Concerning the fight against terrorism, here’s a bit of hypothetical food for thought: What would’ve happened if the media “adequately” covered the failed suicide attack in the skies over Detroit? Perhaps a short paragraph or...
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January 9, 2010 •
Medieøkonomi •
by Kate Nacy
Tight budgets squeeze freelancers out of a living. A passable wage is generally accepted as the element which distinguishes a particular vocation from a profession. At some point in recent history, writing seems to have been demoted from a...
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January 5, 2010 •
Mediepolitikk, Pressefridom •
by Kate Nacy
Paris-based NGO Reporters without Borders cites war and disputed elections as most substantial threats to journalists. The close of 2009 marks the close of an especially grim year in journalism. The number of murdered journalists rose 26...
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December 31, 2009 •
Digitale nyhende •
by Kate Nacy
A study conducted by Prof. Roger Bohn and Dr. James Short of the University of California at San Diego dispels the notion that visually stimulating forms of media are driving the death of the written word. Of the 100,500 words they consume...
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