FCC to Vote on Political Ad Data Posting

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The FCC is set to vote tomorrow on whether or not TV stations will have to post political ad information online. To get the word out about this, Bill Moyers asked journalism professors and students to visit local television stations and gather information on political ad funding. Moyers recently posted on his site:

“Two intrepid journalism students from Kent State — Megan Closser and Shanice Dunning — took me up on my challenge to visit their local TV stations and uncover data behind the political ads they run. Naturally, they took their cameras, but faced a surprising amount of resistance to using them.”

You can view the request Moyers made on his show below. You can also view the video Kent State students made about their trip to four local television station here: http://billmoyers.com/2012/04/24/ohio-journalism-students-answer-call-to-uncover-political-ad-data/

 

 

University Media Relations: Help or Hindrance for J-Schools?

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Blog — College and university journalism schools offer their students a built-in community to cover: the institution that houses their program. A campus offers practice in covering politics, budgets, race, education, crime, social trends – in short, many aspects of life in the wider world. [Read more...]

Journalism students don’t read newspapers

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From Guardian.co.uk — Greenslade Blog. Two eye-opening moments at my lecture to about 250 City University MA journalism students yesterday afternoon.

I asked for a show of hands on a simple question: what is your primary news source? Read more.