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Rosen’s Rules

Jay Rosen

Like him or not, Jay Rosen, the oft-hailed Internet journalism “guru”, is more than prolific on the subject and worthy of consideration

A press critic, writer and professor of journalism at New York University, Rosen operates Pressthink.org, a blog where he “observes journalisms’ habits” and attempts “to discover the consequences in the world that result from having the kind of press we do.” As his 25th year of teaching at NYU approaches, Rosen provides a thoughtful synopsis of his acquired wisdom on today’s journalism. Read the rest of this entry »

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Poland’s New Media Professionals

After the innovative idea of Danish daily Extra Bladet, Poland decides to follow suit.

Danish project Redaktionen was launched in October of 2007 with the goal of creating an Internet platform to help young people design their own school newspapers with the assistance of media professionals. Extra Bladet then prints the newspapers and delivers them directly to the schools.

A similar initiative was introduced in autumn of 2010 by Polskapresse, one Read the rest of this entry »

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Reliable Surprises

Die Furche, Nr. 18/2010

Research institutions are following their own inherent laws.

If they weren’t, it would be difficult to understand why a particular academic discipline has been neglected in the three capitals of the German-speaking world for many years, despite the fact that it remains very popular among students and plays an important role in advising policy makers. Communication science has been overshadowed as a field for far too long. It is obvious that the discipline should be an important sparring partner and impulse generator at the seats of government – given all the ardent questions and problems arising for politics and society, as well as for journalism and the media in the Internet age as a consequence of modern communication technologies.    Read the rest of this entry »

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Global Perspectives on Journalism Education

Beate Josephi of the School of Communication and Arts at Edith Cowan University, Perth, publishes a new book about journalism education.

The core of Josephi’s book, Journalism Education in Countries with Limited Media Freedom, lauds the power of journalism education to inspire change. Tackling twelve case studies (China, Singapore, Cambodia, Palestine, Oman, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Brazil, Russia, Romania and Croatia), Josephi points to the fact that journalism education is not necessarily indicative of a country’s media system. While wealthy nations are free to mediate the terms of education, access to media education in poorer countries tends to fall to the whims and influence of foreign NGOs.

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Journalism Schools Thrive, while the Profession…

Despite the delicate financial state of the news media, jouralism schools seem to be thriving.

In fact, the education sector is perhaps the only area of journalism maintaining a healthy business model. In an article published in The Chronicle Review, Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, asks why journalism schools haven’t suffered the same fate as newspapers. According to Lemann, “Journalism schools ought to explore, and are already exploring, the possibility of becoming significant producers of original news reporting to make up for the loss of the reporting that economically devastated news organizations can no longer afford.”

Read more at The Chronicle.

 

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