by jpitney | Dec 29, 2019 | Mass Media, Uncategorized
Media problems include ghost newspapers and news deserts. Janie Har at AP: The cities and suburbs on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay are home to 2.7 million people, a world-class University of California campus and bedroom communities for Silicon Valley that...
by jpitney | Nov 22, 2019 | Freedom of Press, Mass Media, Uncategorized
From the Committee to Protect Journalists: The Committee to Protect Journalists and press freedom supporters from around the world celebrated journalists from Brazil, India, Nicaragua, and Tanzania last night at the 29th annual International Press Freedom Awards in...
by jpitney | Nov 18, 2019 | China, Internet, Mass Media, Uncategorized
Adrian Shabaz and Allie Funk at Freedom House: Freedom on the Net is a comprehensive study of internet freedom in 65 countries around the globe, covering 87 percent of the world’s internet users. It tracks improvements and declines in internet freedom conditions each...
by jpitney | Nov 13, 2019 | Deliberation, Mass Media, Uncategorized
At Rand, Jennifer Kavanaugh and colleagues have a report titled. News in a Digital Age:Comparing the Presentation of News Information over Time and Across Media Platforms. Key Findings: Print journalism has made modest shifts toward more-subjective reporting Typical...
by jpitney | Oct 31, 2019 | Congress, House of Representatives, Mass Media, Uncategorized
Matt Glassman, who teaches in the Claremont McKenna College Washington Semester Program, testified before the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress on “Congress and the Frank:Bringing Congressional Mailing Standards into the 21st Century,” October...
by jpitney | Oct 28, 2019 | Mass Media, Uncategorized
James Madison, The Report of 1800, January 7, 1800. Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true, than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided by the practice of the states, that it is...
