Last year I was doing some searching for research produced by Phillip Tichenor when I stumbled across something called the Phillip Tichenor Collection. I was surprised to find the collection was not at the University of Minnesota, where Tichenor is an emeritus professor, but instead is housed at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.
This discovery led me to two wonderful resources. The first is the Agricultural Communications Document Center; the second is Dr. James Evans, the man who overseas this vast collection of resources.
The collection has more than 30,000 documents, with its main focus, on agricultural communications, but the overlap to things useful and relevant to community journalism are natural and strong, with a vast collection of both work on journalism in the United States and on media globally, with a lot of very important research on media in rural communities and developing nations. Look through the database and you'll find much of the work produced by Al Cross and company at the University of Kentucky as well as many of the conference papers presented at COMJIG's research sessions at AEJMC.
In my two day visit, Dr. Evans proved to be an amazing resource. He spends his days souring the Web looking for research relevant to the center he has created and is very interested in sharing this resource with the world. He set me up with two research assistants and I left with more ideas than I know what to do with.
February 15, 2010
VPA To Host Community Journalism Workshop
The Virginia Press Association will be hosting a two-day community journalism workshop aimed at beginning journalists, interns, copy editors, and anyone else wanting to improve their skills. The workshop will be held June 24-25, 2010, in Glen Allen, VA.
Among the topics for the workshop include interviewing techniques, beat maintenance, FOIA, new media, and storytelling techniques.
February 10, 2010
Portland Sentinel Closing
For the last five years the Portland Sentinel has been operating as an online and print hyperlocal paper serving the North Portland area. But according to Oregonian columnist Anna Griffin, that run is coming to an end because of lack of advertising revenue.
The paper was being run by Cornelius Swart, who decided he would rather close the news outlet down rather than try to operate with a skeleton staff or become a boosterish publication that blurs the line between advertising and editorial.
The community will continue to be served by the much smaller scale twice-a-month St. Johns Review.
February 04, 2010
Special call: Social Justice in the Clasroom
As a service to the Small Programs Interest Group, we are sharing this research call:
We teach techniques and technology, law and theory, but how should we handle questions of social justice?
Advocacy for the poor and powerless is nothing new to journalism. Muckrakers and crusaders through the decades have lived by the motto: “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.” Many of us teach students about America's strong tradition of the alternative press that still thrives today. Additionally, many colleges and universities have social justice as part of their mission.
But what should this mean to journalism educators? How does a commitment to social justice square with journalists’ ideals of fairness, accuracy, impartiality and truth? Here’s a chance to explore. SPIG invites critical essays, qualitative papers, and quantitative research on the issues and questions involved in pursuing justice through the journalism classroom.
We already have a slot reserved for this research panel during the Denver convention – 5 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 5. This is in addition to our regular research showcase at the scholar-to-scholar session.
Submit your papers through the standard All Academic on-line process by April 1. (Details available at: http://aejmc.org/_10call.php) Make sure you use the phrase “social justice” somewhere in the title.
If you have any questions, please contact either of us:
Research Co-Chairs
John Jenks (jjenks@dom.edu)
Teresa Housel (housel@hope.edu)
We teach techniques and technology, law and theory, but how should we handle questions of social justice?
Advocacy for the poor and powerless is nothing new to journalism. Muckrakers and crusaders through the decades have lived by the motto: “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.” Many of us teach students about America's strong tradition of the alternative press that still thrives today. Additionally, many colleges and universities have social justice as part of their mission.
But what should this mean to journalism educators? How does a commitment to social justice square with journalists’ ideals of fairness, accuracy, impartiality and truth? Here’s a chance to explore. SPIG invites critical essays, qualitative papers, and quantitative research on the issues and questions involved in pursuing justice through the journalism classroom.
We already have a slot reserved for this research panel during the Denver convention – 5 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 5. This is in addition to our regular research showcase at the scholar-to-scholar session.
Submit your papers through the standard All Academic on-line process by April 1. (Details available at: http://aejmc.org/_10call.php) Make sure you use the phrase “social justice” somewhere in the title.
If you have any questions, please contact either of us:
Research Co-Chairs
John Jenks (jjenks@dom.edu)
Teresa Housel (housel@hope.edu)
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