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	Department of Journalism at New York University
		Ultimately journalism is about people, their stories and the government and services that enable them to live their lives.
		It is the backbone of worthy journalism and the source of your authority as a writer.
		This course will introduce you to the world of science journalism by looking at scientific topics that are at the cutting-edge of current research and also have profound implications for the way we live.
	www.journalism.nyu.edu /currentstudents/courselisting/grad_fall06.html (6495 words)

	Ellen Hume: Published Articles: Resource Journalism: A Model for New Media
		A scandal -- any scandal -- tends to take priority now over other news, as the networks run in tabloid panic after their fragmenting audiences.(7) While investigative reporting on real abuses is vital to democracy and journalism, real scandals today seem to be buried in an avalanche of meaningless gossip and unverified attacks.
		In fact, resource journalism was developed by PBS's Democracy Project in the spring of 1997, when it was presented with the need to cover, with limited resources, the prospect of unlimited daily Congressional campaign finance hearings in both the Senate and House.
		These projects all carry the hallmarks of resource journalism, including complementary local and national news, interactive background information that is useful to citizens, a citizen soapbox, and educational tools.
	www.ellenhume.com /articles/resource_journalism.html (4213 words)

	Hobart and William Smith Colleges :: News Releases
		But this also means they cover up scandals in which their bosses are at fault.
		But more than that, responsible journalism means that media professionals are responsible for detecting, investigating and reporting news that has life-and-death impacts on the lives of people — hence the term investigative journalism.
		Sadly, however, irresponsible journalism is happening in democratic countries in which the media enjoys not only the right to report freely but also to investigate into and blow up scandals.
	www.hws.edu /news/update/showwebclip.asp?webclipid=1335 (794 words)

	Journalism at the End of the American Century, 1965-Present — www.greenwood.com
		McPherson analyzes the nature and history of American journalism from 1965 to the present day.
		In other ways, the modern news media fall short of the ideals held by most of those who care about journalism, and far short of the promise they once seemed to offer in terms of helping create an enlightened democracy.
		Chapters are devoted to various themes that include social unrest, the influence of entertainment values, technological shifts, media consolidation and corporatization, issues of content versus context, new kinds of news media, and why the 1970s may have been the high point of American journalism.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GM1780.aspx (256 words)

	Distrust of press can cripple reporters - Minnesota Daily
		As indispensable as journalism is to society and to the strength of our political system, it remains one of the most maligned of all institutions.
		In the wake of that scandal, which continues to be viewed as one of journalism's great triumphs, 28 percent of people surveyed by the Roper Center said they had a "great deal" of confidence in the press.
		One of the greatest journalism scandals of the last half-century involved a story by a young Washington Post reporter named Janet Cooke whose feature of an 8-year-old drug addict named Jimmy won her the Pulitzer Prize.
	www.mndaily.com /articles/1999/07/06/11058 (1115 words)

	USATODAY.com - Scandals don't deter students (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the 1970s, Watergate scandal reporting by The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein prompted a generation of students to enter journalism.
		Yet despite trying times, students and journalism professors say that interest in joining the news business remains high and that the adversity shaking the industry could make it stronger.
		Scandals help us learn what we're going to face in newsrooms and how government and business are using the media to put stories out that they want out there."
	www.usatoday.com /life/columnist/mediamix/2005-11-20-media-mix_x.htm (626 words)

	mediabistro.com: Articles: So What Do You Do, Gay Talese?
		Again, the reason that I never liked the term "New Journalism" was that I think it marked the beginning of journalists wanting to be celebrities, and often of journalists thinking of themselves as celebrities.
		What I disliked most about the idea of the New Journalism was that it seemed to be founded on the idea that you could get results quickly and easily by doing things in a certain way, which was attention-getting, whether that be by style of writing or in its destructive intent.
		And journalism students in the '70s all wanted to be that kind of reporter, who, in their investigative fervor, could be capable of such power as to take on the White House itself.
	www.mediabistro.com /articles/cache/a1498.asp (2212 words)

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		Investigative journalism is a kind of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a topic of interest, often related to crime, scandals, government corruption, white collar crime.
		An investigative journalist must have an analytical and incisive mind with strong self-motivation to carry on when all doors are closed, when facts are being covered up or falsified and so on.
		Long-term effects may include more entertainment-driven news, the blurring of journalism and public relations, a failure to explore important current issues, and a short-term outlook that misses long-term implications.
	www.lycos.com /info/investigative-journalism.html (451 words)

	Journalism @ CSULB University Library: Journalism & Fact Checking
		One of the underlying themes throughout many of the classes in the Journalism department is the need for vigorous fact checking -- the verification that what is being reported is factual.
		The journalism industry has continued to posit a number of perfectly legitimate cures for the recurring spates of ethical transgressions: We need new ethics codes, a system of fact checking, tougher editors who ask hard questions of reporters, lectures for new hires and, if all else fails, the latest plagiarism detection software.
		Those who espouse taking a look at the journalism culture as a possible cause of ethics ills say a fix requires drawing clear distinctions between what is acceptable and what isn't, getting rid of double standards and drastic inequality, and making accuracy as big a rallying cry as beating the competition."
	www.csulb.edu /~jaubele/2006/01/journalism-fact-checking.html (282 words)

	Briefing - Alejandro Junco's Ennobling Journalism - November 19, 2004
		Junco was born in 1948 in Monterrey, Mexico, and received his Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.
		Junco's recent expression of concern for the state of American journalism ought to be taken seriously.
		Journalism provides and entrusts its practitioners with the opportunity to report accurately and objectively on the event and issues that affect the people-it facilitates democracy.
	www.aim.org /briefing/A2221_0_5_0_C (1029 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: UW newspaper adviser retiring after decades in an evolving field
		Oren Campbell spent nearly four decades in journalism before deciding — at a time when many people might consider retirement — to advise college students on their own daily newspaper.
		It may be in a form that we don't know now, it may be in online journalism, but the journalism of today may well not be the journalism of 10 or 25 years from now.
		Q: Journalism scandals, such as those involving CBS anchor Dan Rather, Jayson Blair at The New York Times, and Newsweek's reporting on the prison guards at Guantánamo Bay, have eroded the public's trust in journalism.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002344170_publisher22m.html (769 words)

	Resource Journalism: A Model for New Media
		While investigative reporting on real abuses is vital to democracy and journalism, real scandals today seem to be buried in an avalanche of meaningless gossip and unverified attacks.
		Similarly, just because the new media technologies enable television to go "live" to show the unfolding drama of a man's freeway suicide, it does not mean that journalists are serving the public interest by doing so.
		The Pew Center for Civic Journalism in Wasington, D.C. has numerous publications and studies which map the positive civic impacts, the pitfalls and the still uncertain effects of "civic journalism" experiments around the country.
	web.mit.edu /comm-forum/papers/hume.html (4256 words)

	Department of Journalism at New York University
		Through written assignments, the course prepares students for continuing in the journalism major's rigorous skills, lecture and seminar courses to follow and to introduce students to the mission and joy of journalism as a profession, indeed a calling, as well as to the realities journalists now face in a rapidly changing media environment.
		But while we'll look at a number of those scandals in some detail, this is not a "current events" course, and we'll want to know what has not changed over time, as well as what has.
		Seminar on current issues in journalism as seen from a global perspective, including such topics as the role of international news agencies, the influence of humanitarian agencies on newsgathering, photojournalism in a digital age, how local journalists report the news in countries without a First Amendment, and the risks of covering dangerous or traumatic stories.
	journalism.nyu.edu /currentstudents/courselisting/undergrad_fall06.html (6641 words)

	PoughkeepsieJournal.com - Kathleen Norton column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In this day and age, with the wounds of high-profile journalism scandals still visible, it's heartening to recall that the foundations of the business — hard work and credibility — had such a powerful result.
		Though it was a terrible moment in the country's history, it was proof of the importance of a free press in a democracy.
		The recent scandals have made it almost impossible for editors to allow reporters to work with anonymous sources, without at least revealing them to newsroom management.
	www.poughkeepsiejournal.com /etc/norton (697 words)

	Resource Journalism: A Model for New Media printable version
		Just because sex scandals and celebrities are interesting doesn't mean they should replace other news.
		Journalism can be much more accurate, thoughtful and complete.
		Our proposed new model -- "resource journalism" -- draws especially on the flexibility offered by the new digital technologies, and on lessons learned from watching local and national television news, the magazine and pundit shows, the Internet, and the civic journalism experiments.(17)
	www.ellenhume.com /articles/resource_journalism_printable.html (4193 words)

	Local TV News Project 2002 \| Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)
		And with the government moving to allow even greater concentration of ownership, what's thin is likely to get thinner.
		There are signs of hope, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism's unprecedented five-year study of local television news, which has now analyzed some 33,000 stories from 50 markets, more than a million pieces of data in all.
		These are among the findings of the final year of the study of local television by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a think tank affiliated with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
	www.journalism.org /node/225 (448 words)

	pprtopics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		An examination of one civic journalism project and its effect on the community.
		Examine some aspect of journalism history -- for instance, "yellow journalism," or the role of women in the media, or the standards for a "socially responsible press" recommended y the Hutchins Commission in 1947 or by the Kerner Commission in 1967, after racial disturbances in many cities.
		Leadership is supposed to be a "core value" of journalism.
	www.unh.edu /journalism/pprtopics.htm (2880 words)

	Newsvine - investigative-journalism
		The Huffington Post, which started about 18 months ago as a political Web site for celebrity bloggers, is preparing to venture into original reporting, with plans to cover Congress and, already, the 2008 presidential campaign.
		For all its economic troubles and reputational woes, one could argue that the American newspaper industry is in the midst of a pretty good run of investigative journalism.
		Jim Lehrer, host of PBS' NewsHour, recently told CJR Daily's Liz Cox Barrett that he doesn't think it is his job to tell viewers that a false statement is "untrue".
	www.newsvine.com /investigative-journalism (590 words)

	Poynter Online - The Line Between Fact and Fiction
		In spite of occasional journalism scandals that hit the national landscape like plane crashes, our standards are higher than ever.
		If we ruled the world of journalism-as if it could be ruled-we would ban the use of anonymous sources, except in cases where the source is especially vulnerable and the news is of great import.
		The use of composite characters, where the purpose is to deceive the reader into believing that several characters are one, is a technique of fiction that has no place in journalism or other works that purport to be nonfiction.
	www.poynter.org /content/content_view.asp?id=3491 (3958 words)

	ASNE - For Seaton, a year of history-making events
		Yet the year before the barrage of journalism scandals began, ASNE had launched a project to examine and improve the credibility of print journalists.
		Seaton, who'll be ending his yearlong tenure this week, says that the ASNE Journalism Credibility Project has given him and ASNE the opportunity to push the standards of reporting.
		For example, only 150 more people of color graduate from journalism schools each year than the number who are leaving the industry, he said.
	www.asne.org /99reporter/tuesday/seaton.htm (547 words)

	Picturing Justice. The Law/Fact Dichotomy: Law and Journalism in Shattered Glass by Jamison Colburn
		In the opening scene, Glass narrates that the practice of journalism is "the art of capturing behavior." It soon becomes clear that the flash, panache, and unbelievable timeliness of his "scoops" are what catapult him to his success so much more quickly than the steadiness and method-and simple relevance-of his peers' reporting.
		Because while each of the spectacular disgraces to news organizations lately have involved violations of basic professional ethics, what they've done is by now common in the practice of law: they push the envelope of practice norms a shade too far.
		In journalism the result is an overarching objective to entertain, to titillate.
	www.usfca.edu /pj/shatteredglass_colburn.htm (1225 words)

	Journalism Awards Fiasco in Kenya \| Misc. \| J-Log Journalism Blog
		J-Log is Dead, but there is Journalism Hope
		Contributed by kpaul on: Saturday, Feb 05 2005 @ 11:45 PM The Standard (Kenya): Scandal of 20 TV sets in journalism awards fiasco - It seems the African continent experiences journalism scandals of its own.
		In this one, in question are 20 television sets given away by the Kenya Union of Journalists at a journalism awards ceremony.
	www.mallasch.com /journalism/article.php?sid=1177 (197 words)

	IDS: Pulitzer Prize-winning author speaks at IMU (Campus, 10/12/2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Page was invited to speak in the role of a Howard Lecturer by the Scripps Howard Foundation and the School of Journalism as the finale of the Roy W. Howard National Reporting Competition day of celebrations.
		Page referred to recent national journalism scandals as evidence of professional journalist reform.
		He called Jayson Blair's New York Times scandal a mad rampage and called on all journalists to be more pure than Caesar's wife.
	www.idsnews.com /news/print.php?id=25377 (545 words)

	Leonard’s Losers by William L. Anderson and Christopher Westley
		Such prizes serve to defend conspicuous left-leaning biases in American newsrooms (which is why most of the interesting journalism that exists today is found on the Internet).
		Both are likely looking for work somewhere outside of the journalism profession (although their problems with the truth make them especially qualified for careers in politics).
		Pitts, of course, believes that the public shaming of Kelley was somewhat milder than that endured by Blair because Kelley’s race was never mentioned as a factor in his actions.
	www.lewrockwell.com /anderson/anderson93.html (1215 words)

	Rathergate.com » Mitch Albom and Journalism’s Second Dirtiest Little Secret
		Perhaps, it seems a small detail to you — the players still love their teams, they are still nostalgic, they simply decided not to go after the column had been filed — but details are the backbone of journalism, and planning to be somewhere is not the same as being there.
		In almost every high-profile journalism screw-up, from Kelley to Blair to Gallagher, etc. etc., editors were instead enablers.
		It’s likely that Albom and the Freep wouldn’t be pulling an arrow out of their hineys had management held Albom to the same level of accountability as its reporters and junior editors in the trenches.
	www.rathergate.com /?p=702 (2544 words)

	Japan Media Review -- Media Scandals Stir Up Japanese Blogosphere Discussions on Ethics
		And while high-profile journalists such as Kimura have large presences in the blogosphere, there also are many journalism blogs run by editors and reporters who refuse to attach their names to their postings -- some fear repercussions at work.
		One blogger responded to questions for this article on his Study of Modern Journalism blog, but has yet to identify himself.
		Soon after the scandal broke, the Study of Modern Journalism blog criticized the newspaper for being slow to report the ethical breach.
	ojr.org /japan/internet/1098407663.php (1653 words)

	Online NewsHour Forum: Credibility in Question -- January 2005
		In the past three years, journalism scandals at The New York Times, USA Today and CBS News' 60 Minutes have tarnished the media profession's image and trust in its capacity to act as the "fourth pillar" of democracy.
		These three news organizations have taken specific measures to repair public confidence in their performance -- by hiring an ombudsmen, enhancing the dialogue with their audience and commissioning an independent panel to examine and improve newsroom policies.
		Professional ethics play a major role in ensuring that news organizations fulfill their responsibility to inform the public and to deliver news without bias.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/forum/december04/media_ethics.html (339 words)

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