Journal of Mass Communication & Journalism

Journal journalism

Back in the 1970s, one of the hot fields of biology was co-evolution. Biologists dwelt on how the symbiosis between organisms such as plants and insects helped drive their mutual evolution. Since the 1980s, science journals and science journalists have been undergoing a co-evolution of their own. Today, that relationship is driving much of the science coverage, as reporters unwittingly cede mor...

Predictors of Convergence Curricula in Journalism and Mass Communication Programs

This study is an attempt to understand the mechanism driving programs of journalism and mass communication to converge media sequences. The study also describes the extent and variation of these changes. Findings from a national survey show that a majority of programs are at least experimenting with convergence, though most are also maintaining specialized tracks in some form. Findings also sug...

Journalism and Mass Communication: The Making of Meaning

Transformation of Communication Processes: Data Journalism

Data journalism can be mistaken as the new buzzword for infographics. This is true, but only to some extent. Visualizing data to tell stories started long before the Internet came into being. What makes an attractive infographics, is not the great design, but, more importantly, the insight it gives. The John Snow’s map of cholera outbreaks from nineteenth century London, is an example of refere...

scientific communication–from traditional to modern journalism

My goal in Neuroscience journalism was It is my understanding that at that time, traverse a thin sheet of paper. But even to change the format of traditional most fields of Science held one, perhaps while they could, they did not develop the scientific journals, not by replacing them two journals in high esteem. If your paper photographic film below, which is rather but by offering a new format...