Traces the history of journalism education in Turkey and describes the current program offered at Istanbul University. (HOD)

Reviews the types of programs that offer public relations courses and suggests that public relations practitioners be informed of the differences in depth and content of these programs. (KS)

Describes development of a Public Relations Advisory Council composed of practitioners for the purpose of evaluating the public relations program at the University of Florida. (HTH)

Discusses a document recently discovered in Bolivia that has cast new light on the background of journalism education in Latin America. Indicates that the movement toward the licensing of journalists was present from the beginning. Describes early journalism education in Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, and Central America. (JD)

Reports on a survey of journalism programs, showing how internships have become an integral part of many curricula. Discusses characteristics of journalism internship programs. (RL)

Describes the inhouse database of the journalism school at the University of Missouri, used as a computerized "morgue." Discusses its advantages and problems. (FL)

Describes a survey of journalism and mass communications programs indicating an increase in media ethics courses. (HTH)

Describes a program that prepares students to be total journalists, by placing all reporting, editing, and management students, both print and broadcast, in one learning community--the integrated news center. (HTH)

Describes a cooperative journalism education program that intersperses work with time on campus in (1) a parallel co-op, in which students work part-time and attend classes part-time;or (2) an alternative co-op, in which students work off-campus one semester and return to classes the next semester. (HTH)

Contains five short discussions on the following topics: (1) using precision journalism techniques, (2) coping with teacher evaluation, (3) a program in which journalism students help produce a Sunday newspaper edition, (4) a course in international mass communications, and (5) professional journalists' opinions of the content of master's…

Investigates the extent to which fund raising is taught in public relations programs. Measures the attitudes and behaviors of educators toward teaching public relations students about fund raising. Concludes that fund raising is a generally accepted topic in public relations curricula, yet receives relatively little attention. (SR)

Concludes that, contrary to the findings of previous research, there is no surplus of broadcast news majors--there are only two-thirds of the number needed to fill the openings--but the field is being flooded by non-news majors. (FL)