This paper points out the lack of agreement concerning journalism education's internship program standards and the dearth of research assessing the effects of internship experience on journalism students. After listing some common concerns regarding internships in journalism education, the paper presents the guidelines for conducting internship…

Suggests some objectives for a communications law course: philosophical appreciation of the relationship between law and mass communications, familiarity with legal problems encountered by journalists, intellectual understanding of the legal system, elementary competence in legal research, and more perceptive use of the media in obtaining…

In discussing the teaching of communications law, this paper presents a teaching technique for helping students apply the abstract principles of libel law to real situations by having them discuss an item from a mass publication that is defamatory toward some individual or organization. After presenting a series of questions to be discussed, the…

Outlines reasons why community college students who hope to work in mass communications should be encouraged to continue their education in a school of journalism rather than in a liberal arts program. (GW)

Professional journalists need to be encouraged in their quest for objectivity if the news media are to be saved from degenerating into political journals and propaganda organs. Sociologist Karl Mannheim's theory of relationalism could be the basis for an improved approach to journalistic practice and should be required reading for journalism…

The failure of today's newspapers to provide creative leadership in successfully integrating our cities is tragic. White racism has become a critical factor in the neglect of our cities, as has the reluctance of some newspeople to involve themselves more deeply in efforts to explain today's urban crisis. Much of the journalism profession's…

The subcommittee on newspaper internships and training programs, a cooperative venture of the Association for Education in Journalism (AEJ) and the American Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA), has been searching for information for the cooperative improvement of journalism education. The subcommittee's annual report discusses four projects…

Notes that with prospects of smaller undergraduate enrollments in the years ahead and with the need to create new challenges for schools and departments of journalism, continuing education programs can become a major activity for imaginative and progressive journalism educators and administrators. (RL)

This review of the literature describes several studies of the status of journalism internship programs as they address the following issues: requiring internship programs for graduation, awarding academic credit for such programs, paying student participants for their contributions to newspapers, involving journalism faculty in internship…

Presents a rationale for teaching journalism students about legal traditions and judicial institutions. (AEA)

Surveyed administrators of schools of journalism regarding their institutions' programs in the areas of affirmative action, multicultural education, and courses on minorities, racism, and racial issues in American society. (GC)

Surveyed administrators of schools of journalism regarding their institutions' programs in the areas of affirmative action, multicultural education, and courses on minorities, racism, and racial issues in American society. (GC)

College and university involvement in programs of continuing education or inservice training for practicing journalists is reviewed in this paper. Continued and increased involvement is forecast for the 1980s. Surveys addressing the need for continued education and surveys conducted to discover in-house newspaper training programs are reviewed.…

This bibliography lists suggested readings about blacks, race relations, and the media to supplement conventional categories common to most journalism curricula. It was designed to meet a perceived shortage of instructional materials on the subject, a shortage that does not actually exist. Citations are organized under the topics of general race…

In an exploration of the status of journalism school instruction concerning race and the media, a mail inquiry was conducted among members of the Minorities and Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism (AEJ) and among selected persons who could be described as friends of blacks in journalism. In addition, a mail…