in Journalism and Mass Communication
Ubiquitous Learning. Cope, Bill and Mary Kalantzis (eds.) (2009). Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 279.
Digital and social media are as pervasive today as the air we breathe. So it’s natural that every field claims these tools as their own. Journalists use them to create interactive multimedia news content, while public relations teams use them to build consensus or “buzz” for their clients. [Read more...]
Graduates of the nation’s journalism and mass communication programs in the spring of 2009 confronted a job market unlike any that graduates have encountered in the nearly 25 years for which comparable data are available.
All indicators of the health of the market in 2009 and early 2010 showed declines from a year earlier, which already had produced record low levels of employment. [Read more...]
Journalists who have lost their jobs in the UK in the past five years still have an enduring love and passion for the industry, despite struggling to find new work and fears over money, according to new research conducted by Journalism.co.uk and the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan).
The report ‘Laid Off: What Do UK Journalists Do Next?’ was conducted between November 2009 and January 2010 and asked 144 respondents from across the industry about their experiences of redundancy and unemployment.
This from a speech by Jan Schaffer, J-Lab Executive Director:
J-Lab has funded 55 projects since 2005 with small grants, about $25,000. Many of these efforts sought to train citizens to generate stories for the site. Some were university projects. Others were launched by so-called “civic catalysts” – those bumblebees that pollinate a lot of community groups and carry a lot of knowledge about their communities.
Here are five of our key takeaways >>> READ IT
