August 23, 2010 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
Guardian creates governmental truth-tracking tool. Emerging as leaders in “data journalism” and celebrated for launching a sharp bunch of free, simplified analysis tools, The Guardian releases its latest creation: The Pledge...
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July 2, 2010 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
PEJ and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life release study on Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal. Analysis dealt with media coverage of the Catholic Church scandal in Europe and the U.S. from 2002 – 2010, with a particular...
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June 18, 2010 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
How neurological elements of arousal play into news According to Jack Fuller, author of What is Happening to News? The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism, we can count indefinitely on fear and sex to attract the eye. While...
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April 20, 2010 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
New study explores ideological segregation on the Web. According to David Brooks of the New York Times, “In the mid-20th century, Americans got most of their news through a few big networks and mass-market magazines. People were...
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April 15, 2010 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
The 210-year-old Library of Congress will begin archiving Tweets. Twitter, the blogging service responsible for popularizing 140-character microblips of “information” (define loosely), will join the ranks of culturally...
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April 13, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
Journalist Nicholas Jones discusses the maladies of celebrity reportage and the effect on British journalism. Occasionally crass, often contrived star-riddled stories plague the UK press, and according to Jones, the ethical slips...
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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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December 16, 2009 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Austrians are all too familiar with the unfavorable media attention focused on their Swiss neighbors, for as the Austrians learned, once the electorate sheers obstreperously from the consensus of “political correctness“ on which...
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December 6, 2009 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
It’s hard to believe that 20 years have passed since the Berlin Wall came down, and, together with it, the Iron Curtain dividing Europe. In Germany, media reports on the event made it seem as though the wall came down only yesterday....
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