The National Research Council has released the results of its most recent Doctoral Survey. [Read more...]
Journalism Students Report on Transportation Safety
September 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A major investigation into transportation safety in America, conducted by journalism students from 11 universities participating in the Carnegie-Knight Journalism Initiative in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, will be published this week by msnbc.com and The Washington Post. [Read more...]
When Technology Makes Headlines
September 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The mainstream news media have offered the American public a divided view of how information technology influences society, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. [Read more...]
RTDNA/Hofstra Survey: Number of Minority Journalists Down in 2009
September 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The latest RTDNA/Hofstra University Annual Survey found that the percentage of minority news directors rose in both television and radio in 2009 but, overall, the percentage of minorities in both radio and television fell [Read more...]
CUNY to offer Master’s degree in Entrepreneurial Journalism
September 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism announced today it will establish the nation’s most intensive program in entrepreneurial journalism [Read more...]
Nieman J-Report
September 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A weekly summary of reports/stories from the Nieman Journalism Lab, compiled by Mark Coddington.
Nieman Reports, Professor’s Corner
September 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
New teaching tools are available for journalism professors from the Nieman Reports website. Visit the Professor’s Corner section.
Free online report about coverage of U.S.–Mexico drug trafficking
September 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas has published a new online report on the coverage of U.S.-Mexico drug trafficking. It is available for free download. [Read more...]
Analyst: tablets will kill print newspapers ‘in our lifetimes’
September 16, 2010 By 1 Comment
Wireless analyst J. Gerry Purdy writes that the advent of digital tablets will bring about the death of the print newspaper industry “in our lifetimes”:
“Make no mistake here: digital publishing, primarily through tablets, is going to sweep through the entire publishing industry. There’s no going back as in, ‘Oh, we tried digital publishing on tablets and it didn’t work out. We’re going back into print publishing. It was all just a fad.’ That is never going to happen.”
Principles for Evaluating Graduate Programs
September 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
From Inside Higher Education: Higher education leaders from 17 countries on Wednesday announced agreement on a set of principles for evaluating quality in master’s and doctoral education. [Read more...]