The people who run journalism and mass communication (JMC) schools in the United States (US) are overwhelmingly white, and two-thirds of them are male — even though about two-thirds of the students today are female. Those findings come from a new survey of administrators by Thomas Kunkel, dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at [...]

The Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (www.tiss.edu/cmcs) has announced a new one year full-time post-graduate Diploma in Media and Cultural Studies. Admissions open on July 17; last date for applications is August 29; course runs from November 26, 2007 till July 25, 2008. More details, including the information [...]

NEW YORK: At Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, New Yorker writer Dean Nicholas Lemann is leading an effort to develop a series of real-world, multimedia case studies to teach the next generation of journalism’s editors and producers how to lead in a time of change. The cases are emerging from some of the timeliest and [...]

SALEM, Ore. — The nation’s first law to help protect Oregon high school and college journalists from censorship by school administrations will be signed Friday by Gov. Ted Kulongoski The Oregon law makes student journalists responsible for determining the content of school-sponsored media, and gives them the right to sue schools if they feel free-press rights [...]

Good salaries combined with the social prestige that comes with being part of a booming industry have made media courses some of the most sought after in the Indian capital today. Admission seekers are thronging the over 100 government and private institutes offering undergraduate and post-graduate degrees and diplomas that are seen as the first steps [...]

LAHORE: The Punjab University’s (PU) Board of Studies announced 25 grace marks to the 58 examinees of Development Journalism, in which 29 students, who were working journalists, had failed, said official sources on Tuesday. The examinees claimed at the exam time that the test was made out of questions that deviated from the course they were [...]

Two trainee journalists have been honoured for their reporting skills while studying at De Montfort University in Leicester. Scott McPherson won the Leicester Mercury District Reporter of the Year award, while Oliver Wright won the Johnston Press “one to watch” award. Both completed a postgraduate course in journalism at De Montfort University earlier this year. Students had to [...]

The World Press Institute (WPI), which trained journalists from around the world about the role and responsibilities of a free press for 46 years, is shutting down, the victim of dwindling financial support from American news organisations. “This is a sad development,” the institute’s board chairman, Howard Tyner, said in a statement on the institute’s website. [...]

University journalism programs are stepping up to meet newsroom demands for students with online skills. Schools are adding programs to teach print students to use words, audio, video and other tools needed for the quickly evolving world of online news. “The more they know, the more marketable they’re going to be,” said Wayne Wanta, president of the [...]

The Times of India has been awarded the World Young Reader Newspaper of the Year prize by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN). The prize was given away at a ceremony Monday in Washington, DC. In addition to taking the top award, the Times of India was also awarded the World Young Reader Prize in the [...]

The International Institute for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Journalism Penplusbytes has announced a three month (April 20 to July 20, 2007) online training opportunity for journalists in the area of ICT Journalism. Participants will be exposed to the wider context of ICTs assisted journalism including its history, how these technologies are impacting on the [...]

Race will not be used as a criterion for enrollment in more than two dozen urban journalism programs nationwide under settlement of a lawsuit filed for a white high school student from Virginia who was rejected. Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, which sponsors the programs, and other principals agreed to the settlement in return for the legal [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – More U.S. teachers are using national and international online news sites in the classroom, leaving behind newspapers that fail to grasp the Internet’s importance in trying to reach students, a study found. Fifty-seven percent of teachers use Internet-based news in the classroom with some frequency, said the study, which was based on [...]

The Zimbabwe government has directed the country’s largest journalism training school to accept only students who have completed a controversial national youth-service training programme — blamed by critics for brainwashing youths into zealots of President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party. Churches and human rights groups say graduates of the training programme, which is run by former [...]

They’re fresh out of college and very excited about getting into the big bad world of journalism. Deadlines excite them, breaking news sets their adrenaline rushing and the very mention of ‘exclusive story’ makes them feel like future Pulitzer recipients. We’re talking about journalism students who’re taking baby steps into newspapers and TV channels. Do cub [...]