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Real-Life: Authentic Journalism Assessment, Student Motivation And Active Learning, Caroline Graham May 2013

Real-Life: Authentic Journalism Assessment, Student Motivation And Active Learning, Caroline Graham

Caroline Graham

There is a substantial body of literature detailing the advantages of experiential and authentic learning opportunities, and evidence that they are common within tertiary journalism education. However, research about practical journalism assessment is limited (Steel, Carmichael, Holmes, Kinse & Sanders, 2007). This paper uses Gulikers, Bastiaens and Kirscher's (2004) Five-Point Framework for Authentic Assessment to design a practical body of assessment for a Journalism Research Methods class. Although the level of support first-year journalism students required impacted on the fidelity of the exercise, students' reflections on the experience support scholars' claims that authentic and experiential assessment opportunities increase motivation and …


Journalism In A Pr World, Michael I. Niman Ph.D. Apr 2013

Journalism In A Pr World, Michael I. Niman Ph.D.

Michael I Niman Ph.D.

Mike Niman discusses the future of journalism in a PR-dominated communication environment. In particular, he examines the migration of talent from journalism to the PR industry, the collapse of mainstream journalism and the role of an emergent alternative media as American journalism goes through metamorphosis from what it was to what it could become. Journalism is a social good that should equip people to understand and resist spin. Niman argues that mainstream American journalism, rather than rising to this challenge, has transparently succumbed to serving as an arm of the corporate PR industry, thus laying the groundwork for its own …


The Murderer's Salute: News Images Of Breivik's Defiance After Killing 77 In Oslo, Ginny Whitehouse Dec 2012

The Murderer's Salute: News Images Of Breivik's Defiance After Killing 77 In Oslo, Ginny Whitehouse

Ginny Whitehouse

The author discusses Anders Behring Breivik's massacre and murder cases in Oslo, Norway on July 22, 2011. The goals and plans of Breivik in committing the crime of killing 77 people are tackled. The author mentions that Breivik has been facing 21 years of imprisonment in Ila prison, within the site of a former Nazi concentration camp in Oslo.