Researcher explains ‘visual framing’ in politics, elections »
Shannon Ross | Feb. 27, 2009
Maria Elizabeth Grabe, co-author of Image Bite Politics: News and Visual Framing of Elections, talked to J210 students Thursday about visual imagery in politics. Warner urges journalists to take lead
in migration to blogosphere »
Gena Asher | Feb. 26, 2009
Journalist and educator Fara Warner said journalists need to be leaders, not followers, in an industry where new media is leaving newspapers behind, where blogs and citizen journalism are making headway. Auto PR exec describes effects of economic slump »
Haley Bakker | Feb. 26, 2009
Jaguar Land Rover’s Simon Warr gave students in Ralph Winslow Visiting Professor Jim Bright’s J460 International Public Relations class a behind-the-scenes look at the two British brands and efforts to use public relations to help the company navigate during the global economic downturn. Correspondent French to discuss working in Africa, China »
Rosemary Pennington | Feb. 26, 2009
Courtesy photo Journalist Howard French visits Thursday. RelatedLearn more about Howard French.Read more about the conference.Cohen advises keeping ‘open mind’ about career fields (Feb. 1)Branigan Lecturer to address war photojournalism (Jan. 29)Author, publisher set for spring Speaker Series (Jan. 30) Howard French started his career in Ivory Coast covering West and Central Africa for [...] Eichstaedt recounts experiences reporting on Ugandan child soldiers »
Ariel Tung | Feb. 25, 2009
On a day when newspapers carried Associated Press article recounted the Lord’s Resistance Army’s recent attacks on a Congolese town, journalist Peter Eichstaedt visited the School of Journalism to talk about his own experiences reporting on this insurgent group’s 20-year assault on Uganda and, more recently, Congo.
Agency 7 chooses clients for semester work »
Gena Asher | Feb. 24, 2009
RelatedStudents work with UPIU.com mentor (Dec. 12)New class to look at WikiLeaks (Feb. 7)Public affairs reporting students tackle biomass debate (June 22) Agency 7, the student-managed marketing agency for the School of Journalism, has selected its clients for the spring semester. The agency teams will be working with Boy Scouts of America, Hoosier Council, for [...] UM’s Warner to talk on new media impact »
Gena Asher | Feb. 22, 2009
Fara Warner of the University of Michigan’s Department of Communication visits campus Monday and Tuesday to talk to several classes about the impact of new media. She also will talk to the Bloomington Press Club at noon in the Coronation Room at the IMU. Warner has 18 years of experience in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, [...]