Students & Education

As the newspaper industry grapples with its survival in the face of the steady attrition of readers and advertisers to the Internet, journalism schools have to be nimble, responding to the dynamic environment by offering courses featuring the latest technologies. Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism -- a pioneer in teaching new media alongside the old -- recently took the bold step of calling...

The Sanskriti Pratishthan is inviting applications for its annual Prabha Dutt Fellowship in Journalism from young women who wish to investigate and research on any topic of contemporary relevance. The Prabha Dutt Foundation initially administered the Fellowship. The scheme will now be managed by the Sanskriti Pratishthan, which has been giving similar awards for cultural, media and social activism...

The Nippon Foundation Fellowships for Asian Public Intellectuals (API Fellowships) is inviting applications. The API Fellowship Programme is open to academics, researchers, media professionals, artists, creative writers, NGO activists, social workers, public servants and others with moral authority — who are committed to work for the betterment of society by applying their professional knowledge...

The Thomson Foundation is inviting applications from Indian television journalists and programme makers for workshops on reporting HIV/AIDS. Upon selection, participants will attend a fully residential three-day workshop in August/ September 2006. The workshops will be conducted by international trainers using a multidisciplinary approach. The workshops are being conducted under the EU-India Media...

Perhaps it’s time to contemplate a journalism rehab centre. Thanks to 24X7 television, there is a media institute in almost every corner of the city who promise anything and everything to meet the so called “rising demand for journalists”. But do degrees in mass communication and journalism give you an edge over others? They do. At least what the students queuing up outside journalism institutes...

The media boom has led to mushrooming of educational institutes that promise to cater to the 'rising demand for journalists'. At a time when DU cut-offs are high, students are leaving no stone unturned to get a mass communication or journalism course for an edge over others. Even as the question of market-driven need giving rise to media institutes is being debated there seems to be a herd...

NEW YORK: Ann Cooper, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, is leaving the organization to run the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism's broadcast department, according to a memo from CPJ chair Paul Steiger. The memo, first posted on the Romenesko Web site Wednesday, says Cooper will keep the CPJ post she has held for eight years until the end of June. "CPJ...

NEW YORK: Ann Cooper, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, is leaving the organization to run the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism’s broadcast department, according to a memo from CPJ chair Paul Steiger. The memo, first posted on the Romenesko Web site Wednesday, says Cooper will keep the CPJ post she has held for eight years until the end of June. “CPJ...

Experienced Asian and Pacific journalists can apply for a fellowship program focusing on population issues in the region. The program includes visits to Hawaii, India, Japan and Thailand. Application deadline: June 21. The Jefferson Fellowships, organized by the East-West Center in Honolulu, are open to both Asian and U.S. journalists. Print and broadcast journalists with at least five years of...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – These are tough times for journalism. The newspaper industry cut more than 2,000 jobs last year as it continued to lose readers and advertisers to the Internet. Network newscasts are being propped up by older viewers and continue to lose market share to cable. Regular reports of ethical breaches are undermining public trust in all news organizations, bloggers accuse the mainstream...