February 16, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent and a practicing neurosurgeon, reports from Haiti. Physician-journalists like Gupta typically appear on staff to offer a sophisticated understanding of medical science, clinical...
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February 4, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
After news reports focused on swine flu, the snow “catastrophe“ (proving to be scarcely more than a hearty winter), and the tragic Haitian earthquake, last week’s press was inundated with a different strain of media attention. For...
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February 3, 2010 •
Digital News •
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 •
Digital News •
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 •
Media Economics •
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 •
Ethics and Quality •
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 •
Ethics and Quality •
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 •
Specialist Journalism •
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 •
Media Economics •
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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