Students & Education

The unparalleled recent events in the Middle East have offered newspapers a chance to make use of their youth pages and supplements to explain a complex situation. The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) have gathered some examples from around the world. "Newspapers – yes newspapers – are playing a leading role in providing explanatory journalism for children, who are...

A Tunis criminal court has dismissed a libel case against the editor of an online newspaper after the plaintiff decided to withdraw his complaint, delayed reports have said. Charges of defamation had been leveled against Omar Mestiri, the editor of the online newspaper Kalima, by Tunisian lawyer Mohammed Baccar that could have led to his imprisonment for up to three years. The suit was a result of...

Panos South Asia invites Television journalists from India to apply for a fellowship to research and produce television features around HIV/AIDS in India. There will be two fellowships, one to focus on the Northeast (one or more states) of India and the other will be for the rest of the country. The Fellowship will run from October 2007 to Dec 2007. Selected Fellows will be provided editorial...

The Centre for Science and Environment is inviting active journalists to address issues revolving around rivers in India through the Seventh CSE Media Fellowships. Selected Fellows will be expected to devote time to travel, research and report on the subject. Background: India has 12 major river basins that account for 85 per cent of its river waters. Entire civilisations have grown and thrived in...

The people who run journalism and mass communication (JMC) schools in the United States (US) are overwhelmingly white, and two-thirds of them are male — even though about two-thirds of the students today are female. Those findings come from a new survey of administrators by Thomas Kunkel, dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Kunkel is the new president of...

The people who run journalism and mass communication (JMC) schools in the United States (US) are overwhelmingly white, and two-thirds of them are male — even though about two-thirds of the students today are female. Those findings come from a new survey of administrators by Thomas Kunkel, dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Kunkel is the new president of...

The Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai ( www.tiss.edu/cmcs) has announced a new one year full-time post-graduate Diploma in Media and Cultural Studies. Admissions open on July 17; last date for applications is August 29; course runs from November 26, 2007 till July 25, 2008. More details, including the information brochure and application form, are...

NEW YORK: At Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, New Yorker writer Dean Nicholas Lemann is leading an effort to develop a series of real-world, multimedia case studies to teach the next generation of journalism's editors and producers how to lead in a time of change. The cases are emerging from some of the timeliest and most complex stories in today's headlines. They're set in the...

The National Foundation for India (NFI) has announced ten fellowships to facilitate a more informed development policy dialogue and to encourage publication of well researched articles on development issues. Eight are under the print media category and two under the photojournalist category. The fellowships amount to Rs 1 lakh each. Themes: A wide range of issues of importance to ordinary Indians...

Applications are being invited for the Social and Environmental Responsibility world journalism prize set up to reward the best articles on social and environmental responsibility published around the world. Every year three prizes will be awarded by the Social and Environmental Responsibility World Forum in partnership with the World Editors Forum: A prize dedicated to a specific topic chosen...