Education in journalism emphasizes internships, apprenticeships, and other opportunities to learn journalism by doing journalism; however, most computer-mediated communication tools do not have such a provision. The fully open structure of Wiki matches the principles of learning journalism while, from a technical point of view, Wiki provides a very easy way for users to report, write and edit. ...

Unfortunately much existing scholarly research on news performance suffers from a lack of conceptual clarity and comparability. The authors will summarize existing efforts to analyze news content in ways that is comparable across cultures and facilitates cumulative science. Using six concepts that feature prominently in Western discussions of news performance – negativity, bias/diversity, hard/...

The College of Communication and Information fosters among students a sense of the legal and ethical responsibilities of access to information and the exercise of expression in a democratic society. Additionally, the college serves the professional goals of preparing students for careers in communication and information. The college includes four schools – School of Advertising and Public Relat...

In discussing the sociology of newswork, much attention has been given to aspects such as the journalist’s background, work routines, and the influence of media ownership. Media production studies have covered empricial and conceptual ground investigating the myriad influences on editorial decision-making processes in journalism. Yet such studies (with few exceptions) have focused mainly on mai...

Journalism has enjoyed a rich and relatively stable history of professionalization. Scholars coming from a variety of disciplines have theorized this history, forming a consistent body of knowledge codified in national and international handbooks and canonical readers. However, recent work and analysis suggest that the supposed core of journalism and the assumed consistency of the inner working...

This paper addresses different perspectives on the best administrative 'home' for undergraduate journalism education, from administrative and curriculum perspectives. The paper begins by reviewing the history of journalism as a college discipline--showing that even from its earliest years, the founders of the field disagreed on administrative and curriculum emphases. Some variables which affect...

Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism 301D, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281, USA Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism G6, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281, USA Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles,...

We describe the power and potential of data journalism, where news stories are reported and published with data and dynamic visualizations. We discuss the challenges facing data journalism today and how recent data management tools such as Google Fusion Tables have helped in the newsroom. We then describe some of the challenges that need to be addressed in order for data journalism to reach its...

Journalists and technologists increasingly are organizing and collaborating, both formally and informally, across major news organizations and via grassroots networks on an international scale. This intersection of so-called ‘hacks and hackers’ carries with it a shared interest in finding technological solutions for news, particularly through opensource software programming. This article critic...

The article rescues and analyzes the work done in 1960 by Antonio Gómez Alfaro, the first Spanish author that carried out a study on relations between journalism and literature using a multidiscipline perspective. The tradition documents the emergence of comparative approaches at the end of the 1990s, but the revision of Gómez Alfaro’s proposal is an exceptional advance, because this intellectu...