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The News Triumvirate, Susan Forde, Jane Johnston

Jane Johnston

News agencies, or wire services, are playing a growing role in the contemporary news environment, primarily due to the prevalence of the 24/7 online newsroom and its associated need for speed and volumes of copy. At the same time press releases and other public relations-generated material daily flood the news environment. This paper builds on research into these two fields, trialling a new methodology—one which follows press releases and other public relations material through the uptake by news agencies, in particular the Australian Associated Press, and finally, as published stories in metropolitan online newspapers. While previous research has tracked press …

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.

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 New, Old Journalism: Narrative Writing In Contemporary Newspapers, Jane Johnston, Caroline Graham

Caroline Graham

While there is a significant literature on the rise of narrative journalism in daily newspapers, mostly from the United States, few studies have investigated the breakdown of newswriting styles in the front end of the newspaper, with a specific focus on the use of narrative techniques. This study investigates the writing styles of two daily metropolitan print newspapers in order to provide some concrete data on narrative news reporting in Australia. In a sense, it responds to Mark Kramer's comment in 2000 that “no one has added up the reallocated column inches to quantify this change.” The research analyses 5000 …

The New, Old Journalism: Narrative Writing In Contemporary Newspapers, Jane Johnston, Caroline Graham

Jane Johnston

While there is a significant literature on the rise of narrative journalism in daily newspapers, mostly from the United States, few studies have investigated the breakdown of newswriting styles in the front end of the newspaper, with a specific focus on the use of narrative techniques. This study investigates the writing styles of two daily metropolitan print newspapers in order to provide some concrete data on narrative news reporting in Australia. In a sense, it responds to Mark Kramer's comment in 2000 that “no one has added up the reallocated column inches to quantify this change.” The research analyses 5000 …

Recall And Recognition Of In-Game Advertising: Effects Of Environment, Ad Positioning And Difficulty, Koos Buijten, Claudia Pellengahr, Penny De Byl

Penny de Byl

No abstract provided.

Multimedia Journalism As A Research Method - A New Approach, Mark Pearson, Roger Patching

Roger Patching

Journalism has long been considered the subject of academic research rather than a research method in its own right (Hartely, 1995, p.27). Scholars have considered the use of both qualitative and quantitative academic methods in mainstream journalistic practice. Others have argued that major works of journalism should be accepted by the university and research sectors as the equivalent of academic research (Bacon, 2009). But only recently have some posited the notion that the journalistic combination of deadline-centred, source-based, document-sifting, interview-oriented, multi-tasking research could constitute a distinctive research method of value to academic researcher; particularly those focused on journalism theory and …

The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization Of Young Girls And What We Can Do About It, Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

No abstract provided.

Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates At Online Newspapers, Jane Singer, David Domingo, Ari Heinonen, Alfred Hermida

Jane B. Singer

No abstract provided.

Journalism And Digital Technologies, Jane Singer

Jane B. Singer

No abstract provided.

Hong Kong’S Leftist Media 1950-1970, Alice Lee

Dr. LEE, Alice

No abstract provided.

Community Affairs Discussion Group, Loni Mckown

Loni McKown

No abstract provided.

Newsgathering And Privacy: Expanding Ethics Codes To Reflect Change In The Digital Media Age, Ginny Whitehouse

Ginny Whitehouse

Media ethics codes concerning privacy must be updated considering the ease with which information now can be gathered from social networks and disseminated widely. Existing codes allow for deception and privacy invasion in cases of overriding public need when no alternate means are available but do not adequately define what constitutes need or alternate means, or weigh in the harm such acts do to the public trust and the profession. Building on the ethics theories of Sissela Bok and Helen Nissenbaum, balancing tests can be developed under a mixed-rule deontology that confines online misrepresentation and exposing the private information of …

Tax The Rich, Michael I. Niman Ph.D.

Michael I Niman Ph.D.

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Same Copy, Different Outlet: Wire Services, Journalism And The Erosion From Within, Jane Johnston, Susan Forde

Jane Johnston

This paper examines the role of Australia’s single news agency, Australian Associated Press (AAP) in the news media landscape and positions this within the broader international context. It uses a UK study which suggests news agency dominance of international news on the internet and investigates these claims in the Australian context. Specifically, we examine the prevalence of AAP copy in the ‘Breaking News’ sections of two major news websites to create a preliminary understanding of the impact of AAP on news content. The findings suggest an overwhelming reliance on wire copy – particularly AAP – in this section of two …

Australia’S Media Climate:Time To Renegotiate Control, Jane Johnston, Mark Pearson

Jane Johnston

In 2007, Australia was rated by two international media bodies as well down the chain in media freedom. Within its own borders, internal media groups—in particular the Australian Press Council and the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance, as well as a consortium of major employer groups—have recently released reports investigating the position of media freedoms. This article examines a select few of these shrinking freedoms which range from the passive restrictions on access to documents to the overt threat of imprisonment for publishing sensitive material. In particular, it considers laws relating to freedom of information, camera access to courts, shield …

Our March Toward Intolerance, Michael I. Niman Ph.D.

Michael I Niman Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

At The Intersection Of Jesuit And Feminist Moral Philosophies: Teaching For Social Justice In The Engaged Classroom, Ana Garner

Ana Garner

No abstract provided.

Cultural Studies, Meenakshi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham

No abstract provided.

The Patriotic Good Mother Of World War Ii: A Study Of A Cultural Ideal, Ana Garner, Karen Slattery

Ana Garner

No abstract provided.

Integrating Media Education With Positive Psychology: Cultivating Happy Young People, Alice Lee

Dr. LEE, Alice

No abstract provided.

Business To Business Media Selection; Advertising Media Selection, Lawrence Soley, K. Krueger

Lawrence Soley

No abstract provided.

Norms And The Network : Journalistic Ethics In A Shared Media Space, Jane Singer

Jane B. Singer

No abstract provided.

Media Education: Definitions, Approaches And Development Around The Globe, Alice Lee

Dr. LEE, Alice

Background: Media education is the study of the media with the aim of cultivating people’s media literacy. In the past four decades, media education has rapidly developed in school systems and communities all over the world. Each country has its own developmental trajectory. With the rise of the interactive new media, media education is going to have a paradigm shift, bringing media education study into a new era.

Goals: This paper discusses the rationales, definitions and approaches of media education. It also provides an overview about the global development of media literacy training.

Results: Although different countries define media education …

From Communication Power Shift To Media Education Paradigm Change: The Case Of Hong Kong, Alice Lee

Dr. LEE, Alice

The recent advancement of the new media, particularly Web 2.0, has profound social impact. It is arguably the greatest communication revolution in human history. In the past, only media professionals had the power to produce media content. Now with the help of the new media, young people familiar with advanced technologies can also share this power. For example, many of them are active users of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. As the rule of the game for social communication has changed, the power structure is overturned. Subsequently we have to ask the question: Are the young people well prepared to properly …

Separate Spaces Discourse About The 2007 Scottish Elections On A National Newspaper Web Site, Jane Singer

Jane B. Singer

In May 2007, Scots voted into office a party and a political leader publicly committed to holding a referendum on independence from Great Britain within four years. This study analyzes nearly forty-eight hundred comments appended to stories on the scotsman.com Web site, offering one of the first detailed looks at user-generated content on a newspaper-affiliated Web site in the context of a national election. It explores the evolving nature of online political community and the ways in which newspapers are accommodating a networked environment in their political coverage, addressing issues of citizen and journalistic engagement within a communal space

Separation Within A Shared Space: Exploring The Political-Economic Factors Of Participatory Journalism, Jane Singer

Jane B. Singer

No abstract provided.

Exploring The Political-Economic Factors Of Participatory Journalism: A First Look Into Self-Reports By Online Journalists And Editors In Ten Countries, Vujnovic, Jane Singer, Paulussen

Jane B. Singer

No abstract provided.

Quality Control: Perceptions About User-Generated Content Among Local British Newspaper Journalists, Jane Singer

Jane B. Singer

No abstract provided.

Convergence And Divergence, Jane Singer

Jane B. Singer

No abstract provided.