Archive for the ‘Journalism Education’ Category
Monday, August 17th, 2009
New America Media News Report, Anthony Advincula and Eunji Jang, Posted: Aug 04, 2009
Editor’s Note: Eunji Jang is a creative writing major and media studies major at Hunter College and a writer for the WORD.
NEW YORK — As the news spread about the release of two U.S. journalists from a North Korean prison, the biggest question for some Korean ethnic media is: How about the South Koreans the North has been holding as hostages for years?
Read full story here.
Message from Eunji Jang: “I wrote an article with Oni [NAM New York City Editor AKA Anthony Advinclua} a week ago, and Oni told me it was featured on yahoo. We had only 2 hours to write it and we wrote it with our blackberries!“
Tags:Eunji Jang, New America Media, The WORD
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
August 12, 2009 10:07 am ET — 187 Comments
Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Lou Dobbs have used their radio and television shows to incite hatred and push wild conspiracy theories, leading several of Beck’s advertisers to reportedly pull out of his broadcasts. Many advertisers have nonetheless sponsored these hosts’ hate speech in recent weeks, including major corporations and organizations that, in 2006, reportedly requested that ABC Radio Networks not air their advertisements during any Air America programs.
Read more about this revelation.
Tags:ABC, Air America, CBS, Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, Media Matters, NBC, Rush Limbaugh
Posted in I Didn't See This on the Evening News (A Work in Progress), Journalism Education | Comments Closed
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Tags:Aida Alami, Huffington Post, Hunter College, Hunter student activist, Morroco, NYPIRG, The WORD, The WORD print
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
WORD Senior Editor Jonathan Mena, far left. Former WORD Senior Editor Daniel Allen, sitting to right of Thompson.
From a November 1, 2007, WORD article: When asked by WORD senior editor and senior producer Jonathan Mena if his motivation for convening with young reporters was linked to a mayoral bid, Thompson replied, jokingly, “Who told you I was running for mayor?†Articles in several news/magazine publications, however, described him as a strong contender for the 2009 mayoral contest.
So, Thompson’s office was recently emailed a request for another meeting with the WORD.
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Tags:Daniel Allen, Jonathan Mena, New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Rudolph Giuliani, The WORD
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
… because I’m revising and upgrading my courses as well as teaching a journalism and news responsibility course. That means more posts and links and connection, like the following from RTNDA, The Association of Electronic Journalists (formerly the Radio, Television News Directors Association which revised its name because of the rapid changes taking place in journalism*): Newsroom Diversity.
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Tags:diversity in journalism, ethnic news, RTNDA, UNITY, women in journalism
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
August 7 – In the wake of an August 1 expose in the New York Times, an agreement reportedly reached by executives at the parent companies of Fox News Channel and MSNBC to rein in the networks’ two stars’ criticism of each other seems to have fallen apart. The behind-the-scenes deal-making, though, still illustrates the corrosive effect on media of corporate ownership.
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Tags:Bill O'Reilly, corporate ownership of news, FAIR, Fox News, Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, New York Times
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
The mainstream news media, too much of its reporting/commentating flawed and insipid, may continue for a while to follow wrinkles, small or big and mostly frivolous, and only if those wrinkles of this race drama register on their radar, such as the alcoholic content of the beer of the Obama-Gates-Crowley confab and try to make something of it, like the insipid humor of CNN’s Campbell Brown’s farce yesterday evening, July 31.
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Tags:cambridge, Campbell Brown, Criminal Justice Journalists' News Center, Errol Louis, Glen Beck, Henry Louis Gates, Lucia Whalen, Sgt. James Crowley, U.S. President
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This Blog’s Wrapup of Cambridge–Obama–Gates–Crowley
Friday, July 31st, 2009The mainstream news media, too much of its reporting/commentating flawed and insipid, may continue for a while to follow wrinkles, small or big and mostly frivolous, and only if those wrinkles of this race drama register on their radar, such as the alcoholic content of the beer of the Obama-Gates-Crowley confab and try to make something of it, like the insipid humor of CNN’s Campbell Brown’s farce yesterday evening, July 31.
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Tags:cambridge, Campbell Brown, Criminal Justice Journalists' News Center, Errol Louis, Glen Beck, Henry Louis Gates, Lucia Whalen, Sgt. James Crowley, U.S. President
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