Journalism today – beacon or dross?

Electronic medical journalism today.

Beyond journalism: Theorizing the transformation of journalism

Journalism has enjoyed a rich and relatively stable history of professionalization. Scholars coming from a variety of disciplines have theorized this history, forming a consistent body of knowledge codified in national and international handbooks and canonical readers. However, recent work and analysis suggest that the supposed core of journalism and the assumed consistency of the inner working...

News Blogs and Citizen Journalism: New Directions for e-Journalism

Even for a casual observer of the journalistic industry it is becoming difficult to escape the conclusion that journalism is entering a time of crisis. At the same time that revenues and readerships for traditional publications from newspapers to broadcast news are declining, journalistic content is being overtaken by a flotilla of alternative options ranging from the news satire of The Daily S...

Irofulven – Halloween Trick or a Beacon of Light

The history of Irofulven, MGI Pharma’s novel anti-tumor drugcandidate, unfolds like a suspense story. It involves toxins, great expectations and crushed hopes, and a promise for a better future. The journey of Irofulven from a natural toxin isolated from a mushroom to a chemotherapeutic drug has involved people and places that have influenced American mycology in the 20th century, and has left ...

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...