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Former Miami Herald Editor Juan Tamayo Joins University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies “Coral Gables, FL. (May 4, 2009) – The University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban American Studies (ICCAS) has named Juan O. Tamayo, former Foreign Editor and Chief of Correspondents at The Miami Herald and for many [...]
Forbes: Journalism bust, J-School boom When the current class of optimists from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism prepared for their March job fair, some were stunned to learn that, along with The New York Times, Forbes, DowJones and other national publications, they’d also been signed up for interviews with Cat Fancy, a lively [...]
Groundbreaking collaborations are beginning to surface as public broadcasting stations partner with laid-off print journalists to bolster multiplatform local and regional reporting. Not-too-strange new bedfellows: print refugees
The sixth annual report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism sees 2008 as the bleakest year yet. “It’s not an audience problem or a credibility problem…it’s a revenue problem,” the report says. The State of the News Media: Bleak
Multimedia Journalism Master’s Announced by University of Miami School of Communication Coral Gables, FL.- (March 16, 2009) – As print newspapers and traditional journalism jobs are growing increasingly scarce, the University of Miami School of Communication has taken action to adjust to the shifting journalism environment with the announcement of a new graduate program track, [...]
NYT: Not Laid Off? How to Aid the Less Fortunate “One of the signature emotions of this particular recession, besides the populist rage that boiled over this week, is a bit of survivor’s guilt. After all, if you still have the same job or salary that you had a year ago, you’re among the lucky [...]
NYT: These Days, No Reporting Behind a Nation’s Back “VERLA, India — They sat before me, husband and wife, and explained why they wanted a divorce. In a dingy Indian courthouse, the couple had agreed to be interviewed for an article on the fraying of Indian marriages because their counselor had told them that I [...]
NPR: Where Were The Media As Wall Street Imploded? “Morning Edition, March 9, 2009 · There are plenty of people to share the blame for the collapse of the nation’s financial system. Greedy speculators, mortgage executives and banking chiefs; pliant credit rating agencies; and absentee government regulators come to mind.”
Columbia Journalism Review: Listening to Kilgore “Barney Kilgore, the inventor of the modern Wall Street Journal and, in important respects, the best of America journalism as we know it, died back in 1967. But he has something to say about journalism today, and we ought to listen.”