To a weary high school journalism adviser, the communications magnet program at Grady High School in Atlanta must seem like the Lake Wobegon of high school journalism, where "all of the children are above average." The home of the highly decorated Southerner newspaper, a twenty-page monthly complete with a glossy bimonthly magazine pullout, the magnet program draws budding communicators from al…
The Freedom Forum has initiated a two year Ph.D. program for journalists which provides them with a stipend while they pursue their education in the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Chapel Hill. The program is intended to produce journalism faculty who integrate work experience and educational qualification. This will provide students exposure to pract…
A year-long study of journalism education directed by Betty Medgser produced a report called 'Winds of Change: Whither Journalism Education?' that reveals that the trend is toward training general communicators rather that journalists. Journalism teachers with advanced degrees are replacing teachers with professional experience in the field. Programs are emphasizing mass communications theory i…
The article examines the problems of the modern print media in the context of intercultural and intergenerational dialogue. The article analyzes the current scientific literature and the opinions of leading experts expressed in the media on this issue. Large periodicals, as well as student newspapers, are faced with a lack of funding, their materials are not creatively different, and so they ar…
Journalism education in colleges in the 1990s has existed on a high level since 20 years back and it provides newsrooms with 80% of their staff. Journalism courses in colleges have been observed to be more relevant to jobs in newspaper offices than in broadcast media where the former have thrice the number of jobs as compared to the latter. The low salaries in some offices are among some existi…
The article reviews the book "Al Jazeera English: Global News in a Changing World," edited by P. Sieb.
The purpose of this article is to analyze the avant-garde art features in the magazines for children and youth issued on the territory of Siberia in 1920-s -- 1930-s. The article explores archive materials and examines the contents of printed issues, peculiarities of the approaches to the inner composition of the material and design techniques, discovers the features of the "Soviet avant-garde"…
The theory of "Ethical Leadership" is one of the new notions which earnestly found its way into the management literature at the last decades of the twentieth century. According to this theory, besides the significance of enforcing ethical laws for the society or the organizations, scientists hold the demonstration of ethical behaviors by the leader of the society in the personal and social rel…
One purpose of this paper is to present a concept of intercultural communication skills. It describes the international online debate as a method of long distance learning in marketing and management education, and as a way to promote the discourse about sustainability. While such online debates have been part of the curriculum at a few U.S. and German universities for some time, they were intr…