Mint intern Kohli reports from Delhi »
Gena Asher | June 29, 2009
Journalism senior Risha Kohli is spending the summer as an intern at Mint, a the second-largest financial newspaper in India and a partner of the The Wall Street Journal. Raymer article on mentors set for photography magazine »
Gena Asher | June 29, 2009
Associate professor Steve Raymer writes about the need for professional mentors in the June 2009 issue of News Photographer Magazine, the official journal of the National Press Photographers Association. The article looks at this issue as journalism becomes more dependent on private citizens writing blogs and using mobile phones, Facebook and Twitter to report the [...] Mini U session on media coverage
provokes laughter, banter, outrage »
Jessica Birthisel | June 26, 2009
Wednesday, School of Journalism assistant professor Lesa Hatley Major presented “The Impact of Race and Gender on News Coverage of Political Candidates,” her research on the 2003 coverage of Kathleen Blanco’s gubernatorial race against Bobby Jindal, and the ways it fit into previous scholarship on politics and stereotypes.
HSJI wraps up teacher sessions »
Jessica Birthisel | June 25, 2009
Teachers from around the country have been renewing their skills and learning new tricks of the journalism trade over the past two weeks during the annual High School Journalism Institute teacher workshops.
Big Ten Network to air NSJC panel event »
SoJ Web Report | June 24, 2009
The inaugural event at the new School of Journalism National Sports Journalism Center will be aired on the Big Ten Network next week. Gillis article on sports coverage set for publication »
Gena Asher | June 23, 2009
Doctoral student William Gillis‘s article, "‘Rebellion in the Kingdom of Swat’: Sportswriters, African-American athletes and coverage of Curt Flood’s lawsuit against Major League Baseball," has been accepted by the journal American Journalism and will appear in the Spring 2009 issue, available in July. RelatedAquila presents research at Feb. 20 colloquium (Feb. 12)Ibold guest of Kling [...] Weaver in Spain as guest professor »
Gena Asher | June 23, 2009
Roy W. Howard Professor Dave Weaver was in Pamplona, Spain, in mid-June, where he was a guest professor at the School of Public Communication at the University of Navarra, teaching a one-week course on media agenda setting with professor Maxwell McCombs of the University of Texas. RelatedAquila presents research at Feb. 20 colloquium (Feb. 12)Ibold [...]