No sane journalist or journalism student wakes up one day and says, "I'm going to model my career after Jayson Blair." Yet the numbers of perpetrators of plagiarism and story fabrication grow as journalists resign or are forced out under suspicion: Robin Gregg at the New York Post, Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle and USA Today's Jack Kelley. Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg angrily defende…
History has shown that a vibrant, free press is one of the best ways to ensure a stable democracy. Getting kids involved and interested in journalism, therefore, should be seamless. But the administrators at the East Jordan Public Schools think otherwise.
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…