Shakuntala Rao is Professor of Communication at State University of New York, Plattsburgh, USA. She was a visiting lecturer at Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas and at La Universidad del Zulia in Maracaibo in …
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The “Torturous” Struggle to State a Fact
Critics have long accused objective reporters of hiding behind facts to avoid taking a stand on crucial issues.
How little these people know about the courage it takes for journalists to be objective. How little they know about what it takes to stand behind a commitment to telling the truth, and to stating a fact as a fact.
Is It Time to Close Journalism Schools?
Should we close journalism schools?
How can we save journalism?
Canadian journalist Alan Bass argues that journalists who worry about the future of newspapers are asking the wrong question. Rather than ask, ‘How can we save newspapers?’ we should ask, ‘How can we save journalism?’ …
Jumping into the ‘swirling maze’: How investigative journalism is being reborn
Surviving the Media Carnage Newspapers closing. Journalists let go. Old economic models to support journalism are imploding amid a media revolution. Two veteran journalists — an American and a Canadian — view the carnage and …
Is “Layered Journalism” the Future?
Newspapers in peril, journalists laid off, ethical standards challenged, and the economic basis of mainstream journalism collapsing.
This is no time for critics of “mainstream media” to be triumphal.
Getting Rid of the Mumbo Jumbo: Ethics for Mixed Media
The language of journalism ethics today is like bad Irish stew – a mishmash of different and conflicting ideas, rules, and practices.
Ethical mumbo-jumbo.
Tough Times Call for More Ethics, Not Less
Doing ethics in journalism has never been easy.
Across the history of modern journalism, journalists have struggled against economic and political powers to be independent and responsible public communicators.
The Incredible Shrinking Journalist
Journalism educators need to actively respond to these trends by developing a clear conception of the distinct nature and overriding social value of journalism in a digital democracy.
Who is Divided — Turkey or the Media?
What the Turkish and international public know about headscarves is as divided as the debate on lifting the ban. Not long after winning a landslide reelection victory last July, the mildly pro-Islamic Prime Minister of …