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...

The feminization of journalism, a process taking place in numerous countries worldwide, has been advancing at a much higher rate in Russia than elsewhere. This trend is based on both global and specifically Russian factors. The gradual migration of journalism from being a typically male profession to being a predominantly female one brings about a number of inner transformations and creates a c...

Science journalism is a previously neglected but rapidly growing area of scholarship in postgenomics medicine and socio-technical studies of knowledge-based innovations. Science journalism can help evaluate the quantity and quality of information flux between traditional scientific expert communities and the broader public, for example, in personalized medicine education. Newspapers can play a ...

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). This association provides resources, networking, an annual conference, and publications dedicated to enhancing education in journalism and mass communication. Offers affiliations with 9 special interest groups and 17 divisions. Includes a comprehensive set of non-commercial links to related sites at http://www.aejmc.org/hom...

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...

To examine the nature of news content in online journalism, this study explores how online media define newsworthiness in covering news events. We examine the effect of organizations on the news concept with two types of online news sites portal news sites and the sties of traditional newspapers. The study used seven newsworthiness indicators as predictors of news content: statistical deviance,...

Literary journalism, a hybrid writing style that borrows techniques from journalism and prose fiction, is being scrutinized as literature since its conception in early twentieth century. This kind of genre when read, arouse in readers the feelings of empathy and rejoining with their own experiences and sensations. Taking some fitting examples of this genre from American literature, the purpose ...

Journalism education has fast metamorphosed into media or communication programs without much visible shifts in aims of its potential in Bangladesh. Such shift is required to prepare competent professional for the industry. The recent move of journalism departments towards social science faculties in the light of the demand in various job markets do not congregate media needs in Bangladesh. Mak...

Online Journalism is being seen as future of Journalism. News Professionals are vying to capture newsworthy stories that emerge from crowd. Live Social Media especially Twitter is generating enormous volumes of data every minute. It becomes difficult to select credible and relevant tweets that may form quality news among others. The problem intensifies due to the freedom of Twitter being an inf...

In recent years, the Knight News Challenge has emerged as one of the most important forums for stimulating innovation in journalism and as a salient marker of the Knight Foundation’s influence in the field. However, scholarly literature has yet to discuss this contest’s design and execution, its applicants and winners, and the implications for the future of journalism that may be revealed in th...