Research has shown that professionals who act unethically in the workplace likely have an academic background with academic dishonesty violations. Given that understanding and teaching academic honesty behaviors are critical to best prepare future media professionals, this research examines discussions of academic dishonesty in "Journalism…

The concept 'network governance' has become widespread and is often believed to occur in a Western environment. Is network governance applicable to other contexts and what can we learn from it in Bangladeshi context? This paper outlines how the idea of 'network governance' emerged and how it operates in a neoliberal higher education…

Current curriculum trends in tertiary journalism and communication education in the People's Republic of China are investigated using information from the websites of the 2,198 Chinese universities that published course lists in December 2013. Of those, 439 offered journalism majors and this article samples 274 of those universities (12.5% of the…

Wiki empowers users in generating, revising, and organizing their own content. In this study, we review literature to gain theoretical support for wikis that impact learning. In a context of student journalists learning news writing, we design a two-phase field study: (1) Phase I--to examine learners' reflections on learning news writing in wiki…

What role do the media play in the identification and construction of white-collar crimes? Few studies have examined media coverage of corporate deviance. This study investigates news coverage of six large-scale accounting scandals that broke in 2001 and 2002. Using a variety of empirical methods to analyze the 51 largest U.S. newspapers, the…

We study project-based, technology-enhanced learning environments in higher education, which should produce, by means of specific mechanisms, learning outcomes in terms of transferable knowledge and learning-, thinking-, collaboration- and regulation-skills. Our focus is on the role of objects from professional practice serving as boundary objects…

Examines the case of Dr. Karl Muck, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra who was accused of espionage in 1917. Suggests that the espionage charge was a fiction created by newspapers, beginning with "The Providence Journal." Concludes that Muck admitted to being a spy rather than reveal the name of the woman with whom he had an…

An analysis of five journalism books published between 1867 and 1911 provides journalism and mass communication educators and textbook authors with insight into what their earliest predecessors considered important. Strong arguments exist for each of the following five books to receive consideration as the first or oldest news reporting textbook…

Examines leading Reconstruction-era newspapers for language about African American civil rights in coverage of three post-Civil War Constitutional amendments. Finds that diminishing concern for African American civil rights in Northern papers, coupled with border and Southern papers suggesting that blacks were not worthy of equal rights, likely…

Analyzes two sources of information supplied to members of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ): public relations materials mailed to SEJ members, and story tip sheets assembled by SEJ staffers. Finds the preponderance of materials promoting an environmental backlash agenda stem from just a few public relations sources; and the public…

Examines 80 news stories and news analyses published in "The New York Times" from October 7-28, 1991, regarding the allegations of Anita Hill that she had been sexually harassed by Clarence Thomas. Finds that reporters framed all parties in ways that were directly determined by different identity variables, which the reporters took up…

Many recent studies on computer-mediated communication (CMC) have addressed the question of orality and literacy. This article examines a relatively recent subgenre of CMC, that of written online sports commentary, that provides us with written CMC that is clearly based on firmly established oral genres, those of radio and television sports…

Examines the ways journalism textbooks instruct journalism students to approach disability-related stories and sources, presumably within a wider context of overall sensitivity to diversity issues. Finds that news reporting textbooks fare poorly when assessed against basic disability/diversity reporting guidelines. (SG)

Labor activists and sympathetic scholars have long been critical of the anti-labor bias found in what they term the "hired press." Research generally supports these labor movement perceptions; studies of media coverage of industrial conflict have consistently found that the media cover these struggles through frames that delegitimize the…

Sections of the newspaper "USA Today" were compared with corresponding sections of four major newspapers--the "New York Times," the "Wall Street Journal," the "Los Angeles Herald Examiner," and the "Los Angeles Times"--to determine what editorial components made "USA Today" different and…