Journalism

look, there are kids getting killed in Afghanistan and Iraq everyday getting stories. I think that there is a great amount of beautiful journalism going on. I think that there is a lot of crap out there and it's a different world now.” Clooney describes what it takes to be a true journalist, close to Murrow. He describes how a person who wants to pursue Journalism, must overcome obstacles. For instance, many journalists didn’t want to report nor attack McCarthy, due to their safety purposes. …

There is also a sense of superiority felt by the media when comparing themselves to public relations, with Munro (2016), believing that “...PR needs journalism, more than journalism needs PR...” (Munro, 2016), which alludes to White and Hobsbawm’s (2007), conclusion that the media’s view of public relations is more prejudiced, compared to the public relations view of the media. These beliefs indicate that the power, at least in the mind of media practitioners, is held by the media, and that…

concentrated ownership in the newspaper industry are: biased journalism, profit being the main goal, and loss of variety or lack of info. Media has become a significant aspect of most economies and corporations tend to change depending on how much profit is being made. Through research it is evident that the Canadian newspaper industry limits the production of high quality content because economic pressures suppress, rather than encourage, quality journalism. The first argument surrounding…

switching on a TV. The influence the media has on the world is something that cannot be ignored. This means media organisations and journalists have a crucial responsibility in what they write and put out into the public domain. In the world of Journalism, Gatekeeping and News Values hold a very important role. Gatekeeping is the process where information is filtered for publication, when a media institution or journalist will decide what is important enough to be broadcasted. The fact that…

assessment question as it analysis’ how influential Assange and his project was, resulting into a bigger effect other than just the effect of the leaks on the Government. The strength of this source is that it approves of the anti-censorship movement in “journalism”, the changing dynamic of the press-political relationship. These are considered as strengths of Zayani’s work as it favours a certain perspective compared to other sources which enables varied opinion. The weakness of the journal is…

Andriana Toneva W1499024 Book Review Michael Schudson The sociology of news Michael Schudson takes on the hard task to combine research of sociology, politics, journalism and communications in his brief introduction of news role in society. “The sociology of news” makes a contribution to the sociological understanding of the role of news for the formation of public consciousness, judgement and comprehension. A book which pulls you in the exploration of the mainstream media, the…

through journalists to writers before finally heading to the final editor and being sent out to the masses. Newspaper outlets understood that due to limited alternative media, they had an incredible responsibility to the public to present facts based journalism so the citizens would be informed. Television news became the easiest way for people to know what’s going on in the city. The biggest difference here is that newspaper were a printed material and the nightly news was broadcasted through…

Spotlight is about the investigative reporting unit of the Boston Globe, a somewhat autonomous journalistic arm of the newspaper. In 2001, Marty Baron, the newly hired editor-in-chief, asks the crew to drop the story they're currently working on and focus on allegations regarding a priest named John Geoghan (who's accused of molesting more than 80 boys). The team initially doubts whether the story will pick up traction with the local community, and are hesitant in pursuing it, feeling that Baron…

Journalism is the only type of media that is protected by the U.S. Constitution and is required by democracy. People often forget the reason for this; our country was built off freedom of press. Our forefathers fought to say and publish whatever they wished against the government and to keep people informed. Our media today is mostly in shambles and concentrates on entertainment more than anything. Real journalism, which talked about the serious issues, sought to inform citizens enough so that…

& Lynch (McGoldrick & Lynch 2000, 30-33), prescribed several practical points for media practitioners and it 'd be helpful to the current discussion to highlight a couple of these points to have a clearer understanding of the philosophy of Peace Journalism: A. Avoid portraying a conflict as consisting of only two parties. This is fairly common practice in media, the portrayal of only two sides to a conflict that are pitted against one another. Naturally, when it seems that there are only two…