By Mindy McAdams
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I admire the journalists at The Spokesman-Review, in Spokane, Washington. They are doing great work in online video, redesigning their Web site, listening to their young staffers, and practicing transparency.
Now their editor, Steven A. Smith, has posted an account of how and why the newspaper fought to have a horrifying video (of the torture and [...]
Call me optimistic, but I think literacy and education lead to reduced conflict and greater prosperity, and I think access to cheap computer power is the key to education around the world. Paper is too expensive — and too slow. Information is power, and information is available free all over the Internet.
It’s slightly off-topic, but [...]
What did the scene really look like? Too many photojournalists have been dodging and burning the heck out of their pictures for too long. It’s not real, and it’s not accurate. But they’re doing it anyway, ethics be damned.
In a wonderful and long-needed blog post, Carrie Niland serves up one educational example (in a real [...]
I can’t get this anecdote out of my mind this morning.
After Hurricane Katrina, journalist Anne Hull walked with a mother and son who were trying to hitchhike to Dallas. They spent more than two hours together, according to a report on a talk given by Hull to a class of journalism students at the University [...]
According to a column by Guy Berger, a South African journalist and journalism educator, a Howard University journalism professor has complained that her writing has been published under another author’s name in a very well-regarded textbook.
Howard’s Anju Chaudhary, who has a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, co-authored the Asia section of the third edition [...]
On the topic of charges of plagiarism against John Merrill, a revered journalism professor and ethicist, our dean emeritus Ralph Lowenstein recommends that you read the following, in this order, before coming to judgment:
A Nov. 9 column about the situation by Tom Warhover, the Columbia Missourian’s executive editor for innovation.
Merrill’s column of Nov. 3, which [...]
My friend Mary McGuire, who teaches online and broadcast journalism at Carleton University, in Ottawa (the capital of Canada), has posted a wonderfully clear and concise list of guidelines for editing audio that all journalists can use. Bookmark it now!
In it, she answers questions that I am asked every time I teach journalists (or [...]
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