Communities report a low level of trust in environmental health media coverage. In order to support risk communication objectives, the goals of the research study were to identify whether or not there is a gap in environmental reporting training for journalists, to outline journalists' methods for gathering environmental health news, to observe journalists' attitudes toward environmental health...

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...

1 The paper discusses a number of specific problems of natural text parsing that emerge during the operation of a highly developed rule-based machine translation system, ETAP-3. Emphasis is laid on two classes of problems: 1) adequacy of linguistic description of the working languages of the MT system and 2) means of resolving lexical and syntactic ambiguity of the source text. It is claimed th...

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...

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...