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...

Though still existent traditional state propaganda as characteristic during the World Wars (see Lasswell, 1927; Knightly, 1975; and chapters 2 and 4 of this volume) has been partly delegated to professional PR agencies in recent conflicts (Kunczik, 1990). During both the Gulf War (MacAlthur, 1992) and the Bosnia conflict (Beham. 1996), the role of PR agencies became so massive, and filters used...

Title of Document: TRANSPARENCY AND TRUST IN JOURNALISM: AN EXAMINATION OF VALUES, PRACTICES AND EFFECTS Michael Koliska, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Directed By: Professor Linda Steiner, Philip Merrill College of Journalism Journalism scholars and practitioners have repeatedly argued that transparency is crucial to generate trust in the news media, which, over the years, has faced continues dec...

With headlines and texts held constant, the subheads of articles embedded in an Internet newsmagazine were manipulated in an overview from which articles could be selected. In a control condition, the lead, indicating deplorable happenings,was framed in a factual manner. In the other conditions, the leads were framed either in terms of conflict between feuding parties, the unfolding of disastro...

Although case reports have always had a place at the foundation of medical knowledge, established radiology journals have increasingly focused their efforts on major research studies. This de-emphasis of case reports has resulted in a dearth of opportunities to publish them. Case reports continue to mark the frontiers of what we know as physicians, and have long provided an attainable way for f...

Citation: Takahashi B and Parks P (2018) Journalists and Communicators’ Perceptions of Their Graduate Training in Environmental Reporting: An Application of Knowledge-Based Journalism Principles. Front. Environ. Sci. 5:94. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2017.00094 Journalists and Communicators’ Perceptions of Their Graduate Training in Environmental Reporting: An Application of Knowledge-Based Journalism P...

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...

Final-year university engineering and journalism undergraduate students collaborate in a multimedia design and communication project to test the hypothesis that design and communication emphasis by engineering students can be enhanced by interdisciplinary collaboration with media-equipped journalism students. Research was conducted by environmental manipulation, observation, administration of a...

The professional norms of good journalism include in particular the following: truthfulness, objectivity, neutrality and detachment. For Public Relations these norms are at best irrelevant. The only thing that matters is success. And this success is measured in terms ofachieving specific communication aims which are "externally defined by a client, host organization or particular groups ofstake...

Collaboration in journalism has become increasingly important, the face of challenges posed by digitalisation and platformization. The development information communication technologies led to collaborative committed democratic public-oriented methods. However, it is unclear how this commitment reflected practice, whether varies according political, economic media system contexts, especially no...