The study focus on ways of tackling the misconception and prejudices surrounding citizen journalism. journalism is a process collecting, processing, analyzing dissemination news or information by untrained journalist using social media platforms. This aims to examine various misconceptions that give rise ethical concerns about practice in Nigeria, find out legal Nigeria Nigeria. anchored theory...

To begin, I’d like to describe the origins of the research project that ultimately became The Order of Genocide. I first traveled to Rwanda as a journalist in the mid-1990s, and, during my travels there and in what was then Zaire, I became deeply interested in the dynamics that ultimately led to the 1994 genocide. From my perspective as a journalist traveling in the region, the genocide was an ...

Improving the public understanding of science is an important challenge for the future professional scientists who are our current undergraduates. In this paper, we present a conceptual model that explores the role of mass media as community gatekeepers of new scientific findings. This model frames the benefits for undergraduate science students to learn about media genres so that they can lear...

Poronnik, Philip, and Roger W. Moni. The Opinion Editorial: teaching physiology outside the box. Adv Physiol Educ 30: 73–82, 2006; doi:10.1152/advan.00075.2005.—Improving the public understanding of science is an important challenge for the future professional scientists who are our current undergraduates. In this paper, we present a conceptual model that explores the role of mass media as comm...

Published Ahead of Print 9 March 2009. 10.1128/MCB.01638-08. 2009, 29(10):2716. DOI: Mol. Cell. Biol. Wolf and Cheryll Tickle Gundersen, Rune Blomhoff, Colin Henderson, C. Roland Goodyear, Richard M. Aspden, Richard Talbot, Thomas E. Katy Schmidt, Catherine Hughes, J. A. Chudek, Simon R. the Limb Oxidoreductase in Skeletal Development of Acting Downstream of Cytochrome P450 Cholesterol Metaboli...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected]. Social Forces 91(2) 609–634, December 2012 doi: 10.1093/sf/sos071 Advance Access publication on 26 October 2012 I thank Paul DiMaggio, Martin Ruef, Sara McLanahan, Bruce Western, David Scoones, Berkay Ozcan, Mark Granovetter, Tomas Jimenez, Corey Fields, Paolo Parigi, ...

Le Monde, or rather its current management team of publisher and editor JeanMarie Colombani, managing editor Edwy Plenel, and director-of-the-board Alain Minc, has been the critical target over the past year of several best-selling books, accompanied by scores of articles in the rest of the French press. This avalanche of unwelcome attention for the newspaper was launched with the 630-page, exh...

Nearly half of all German freelance journalists have a second job, mainly in public relations (PR). This work combination can be problematic, since journalists and PR practitioners have different responsibilities. Working as a journalist entails contributing to the public duties of journalism such as informing the public, offering multiple viewpoints, and representing societal interests; in con...