Archive for November, 2007

Journalists must be more than “hunter-gatherers” of information, Philip Meyer told students in assistant professor Joann Wong’s J520 Quantitative Research Methods for Journalists Thursday. He is the Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of North Carolina’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

In a new class, graduate students have spent the semester learning how to craft compelling video that, ideally, goes beyond the nightly television news fare to tell a rich, narrative story.

A new advertising class this fall has laid the groundwork for what will become the School of Journalism’s student-run advertising and public relations agency.

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Associate professor Holly Stocking has written the concluding chapter to a new book about media ethics, Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies, edited by Howie Good.Each chapter contains an analysis of a film that portrays journalists in ethically challenging situations. Stocking’s chapter examines Absence of Malice from the perspective of "good work" as [...]

Phil Meyer, Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of North Carolina’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications, visits Thursday and Friday to speak to assistant professor Joann Wong’s classes and to graduate students. He’ll also have a chance to reconnect with two of his former students, School of Journalism Dean Brad Hamm and [...]

Associate professor Owen V. Johnson will presenti "Media Assistance and Journalism Change in East Central Europe," at the 39th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in New Orleans, Thursday and Friday. The paper is part of a panel devoted to "Training the Media to Be Free: An [...]