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 It's not about understanding how to communicate. It's about understanding the medium and how to use it.
-Former Dean Campaign Manager Joe Trippi on the potential of the Internet in political campaigns. Trippi spoke at an SMPA conference on June 4. |
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SMPA Co-hosts 4th Annual Pre-APSA Conference on Political Communication
A WRITER’S LIFE IN PUBLISHING: AN INSIDER’S DISCUSSION ON WRITING THROUGH THE PUBLISHING WORLD BY GW’S EDITOR-IN-RESIDENCE MARK ROTELLA
STUDENT DEBT AND MANAGING THE COST OF COLLEGE
FORMER CIA DIRECTOR R. JAMES WOOLSEY DISCUSSES THE WAR ON TERRORISM AT GW'S SCHOOL OF MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
CBS's Bob Schieffer Meets with SMPA Students
On the last day of class, SMPA students from Professor Mark Feldstein's broadcast news course met with "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer at the CBS News Washington bureau.
SMPA Hosts Journalism Seminar on New Laws and Role of the Internet in 2004
"The Changed Landscape of the 2004 Election: New Laws, New Groups, the New Role of the Internet"
Too Good to Be True
It’s official. Jack Kelley’s name has been added to the list of journalists turned fiction writers, in the company of Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass and Janet Cooke. After months of investigation, USA Today concluded that their star reporter lied, fabricated information and plagiarized the work of other journalists.
Clear Channel Gets Stern
As controversy continues over indecent material on television and radio, Howard Stern’s radio show was dropped by six Clear Channel Communications stations February 25. The incident coincided with Clear Channel president and CEO, John Hogan’s February 26 appearance before Congress.
Has TV Gone Too Far?
The Super Bowl’s controversial half-time show has the FCC and other critics up in arms over violations of television decency.
The Media vs. the Masses
Howard Kurtz's Jan. 29 front-page story about hot-and-cold media coverage of Howard Dean involved more than the old chicken vs. egg debate about whether reporting reflects or affects events.
Does U.S. Sponsored TV Promote America's Message in Iraq?
With so much uncertainty and turmoil swarming around their country, Iraqi citizens are looking to television news for answers and coming up empty handed.
Media Rules Setback
Congress has refused to pass the Bush Administration’s new station ownership regulations as submitted by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Introduced last June, this bill would allow media companies to own stations reaching nearly half of the audience in a single market.
The Ethical Approach: Print vs. Broadcast
Are broadcasters less committed to journalism ethics codes than organizations that publish newspapers? I suspected the answer was “yes” when I surveyed reporters at several dozen news agencies. To my surprise, the broadcasters outscored their print counterparts, although both need to do more to implement their ethics policies.
Pressure, Plagiarism and Professionalism
Just when you thought the New York Times controversy had fizzled, Jayson Blair appears on NBC’s “Today” to promote his book, “Burning Down My Master’s House.” And with the release of the movie “Shattered Glass” inspired by Stephen Glass, former master fabricator of The New Republic; plagiarism in journalism is once again the topic du jour.
Press, Politics, and War
The American public depends on the news media to accurately report what is going on in Iraq, but the media has been criticized since the war began for not providing accurate coverage. Are things in Iraq really worse than the media makes it seem? Is President Bush getting a fair or raw deal out of the coverage?
Dean.com
In modern day politics, television is the popular realm for waging campaigns and the primary source of information on candidates for most Americans. But Democratic presidential candidate and former Vermont governor Howard Dean is proving that the Internet could revolutionize campaigns and blow TV out of the water.
Bad Timing?
There is a long-standing tradition in journalism that a news organization does not publish defamatory stories about political candidates two weeks before an election. Yet five days before the California recall election, the Los Angeles Times published a story alleging multiple incidents of sexual harassment by then gubernatorial candidate, Arnold Schwarzenegger. This decision angered 1,000 readers enough to cancel their LA Times subscriptions.
Naming Plame
Washington journalism thrives on leaks. But publishing leaked information can create ethical problems. The current controversy over syndicated columnist Robert Novak and his revelation of a CIA agent’s name raises such questions as: when does it serve the public good to break national-security secrets?
The Lives of Their Times
It's a long, long way to the top of the world, the old saying goes, but it's only a short fall back down. Nobody knows that better right now than Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd, the two top editors of the New York Times. On June 5, they resigned, the latest victims of the newsroom convulsions that began in May with revelations of journalistic fraud perpetrated by the young reporter Jayson Blair.
A New Landscape for News Media
The local stops here. That's what many in the news business fear as the result of the June 2 decision by the Federal Communications Commission to relax restrictions on media conglomeration. The new rules will allow wealthy media companies to engage in cross-ownership of newspapers, television and radio stations within single markets, and also to increase market share nationwide by buying locally-owned TV stations.
The Blair Affair
Three basic rules define the journalist's credo. Don't plagiarize. Don't make things up. Never let yourself become part of the story. By violating the first two rules, Jayson Blair led his newspaper, The New York Times, into a humiliating breach of the third. And while most journalistic scandals fly unnoticed beneath the public radar screen, this one will take some time to disappear. It quickly became a staple of late-night TV humor: Jay Leno, for one, said that "the former Iraqi minister of information has gotten a new job. He's the new fact checker for The New York Times."
Dialing Back to Dial-Up
Not so fast. That's the lesson from a new study of Internet use by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Only a year ago, the conventional wisdom said everyone would switch to broadband, the high-speed connections offered by technologies like cable modems and digital subscriber lines (DSL).
More Trusted than Politicians? Maybe?
Nobody ever went into journalism to be loved. Still, it's sobering to realize just how little esteem the nation's news media command. The latest evidence: a USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll suggesting that only 36 percent of Americans trust the media to be generally accurate.
Two 'Avoidable' Deaths?
One of Murphy's Laws of warfare reads this way: "Friendly fire... isn't." War reporters know that as well as anyone, especially after the deaths of Jose Couso and Taras Protsyuk, the TV cameramen killed by American tank fire in Baghdad on April 8, while filming the fighting from a balcony at the Palestine Hotel. They didn't have to die, according to a new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Under the Gun
Last week Julio Parrado was a journalist. This week his family is planning a funeral. Parrado, a reporter for Spain's El Mundo "embedded" with U.S. troops, was killed, along with Christian Liebig of the German newsweekly Focus, when an Iraqi missile struck their encampment outside Baghdad. Their deaths made a chilling point: the war in Iraq is beginning to look unusually dangerous for members of the press.
Blogs take Web diaries to the next level
Ever frog blog -- or contemplate blogging your dog? Or how about blogging over that 1967 mustang? Blogs are journalism's latest craze. The odd little word is short for "Web logs." They first appeared around 1998, and are starting to take off among people searching for information online. You can find a blog on just about any topic imaginable, and this week, Bruce Burkhardt speaks to a self-proclaimed blog enthusiast. Josh Quittner, editor of Business 2.0, tells Bruce Burkhardt why he thinks blogs are journalism for the future.
Blogs take Web diaries to the next level
Ever frog blog -- or contemplate blogging your dog? Or how about blogging over that 1967 mustang? Blogs are journalism's latest craze. The odd little word is short for "Web logs." They first appeared around 1998, and are starting to take off among people searching for information online. You can find a blog on just about any topic imaginable, and this week, Bruce Burkhardt speaks to a self-proclaimed blog enthusiast. Josh Quittner, editor of Business 2.0, tells Bruce Burkhardt why he thinks blogs are journalism for the future.
The war in Iraq: Seeing the big picture
KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT (CNN) -- The war continues with so many powerful and memorable images -- the sandstorms in the Kuwaiti and Iraqi deserts, the deadly firefights in South and Central Iraq, the "shock and awe" bombing campaign in Baghdad and other major cities around Iraq, the frightened faces of American POWs being questioned on Iraqi TV and the Iraqi civilians who have been killed and injured despite intense U.S. and British efforts to avoid so-called "collateral" damage.
CNN executives: Let reporters cover war
(CNN) -- In planning for a possible war with Iraq, the Pentagon is considering something quite old-fashioned: letting reporters actually cover the fighting. This would be a good thing, for the military as well as the press and public.
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