Tag Archives: journalism

Hiroshima

Posted on 2016/05/27 by arnulfo

Obama mourns dead in Hiroshima, calls for world without nuclear arms HIROSHIMA, JAPAN | BY MINAMI FUNAKOSHI AND MATT SPETALNICK World | Fri May 27, 2016 3:06pm EDT Barack Obama on Friday became the first incumbent U.S. president to visit … Continue reading →

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لجزيرة‎

Posted on 2016/02/09 by arnulfo

Al Jazeera America to close down Unsustainable business model cited in decision to close as global network announces a new digital drive in US market January 13, 2016 2:11PM ET by Al Jazeera Staff

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human rights in Mexico

Posted on 2015/08/20 by arnulfo

Dear friends, Mexican photojournalist Rubén Espinosa was just found tortured and murdered, along with human rights activist Nadia Vera and three other women. Freedom of expression is under attack in my country, one of Latin America’s oldest democracies, and Rubén is the 14th … Continue reading →

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news

Posted on 2015/06/22 by arnulfo

What makes news Prominence Novelty / Unusualness Tragedy / Conflict / Misfortune Impact Proximity Immediacy / Timeliness / Trend Different journalism textbooks use different wordings, but the main idea here is to understand what people “value” as newsworthy. The Center … Continue reading →

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cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias

Posted on 2015/06/11 by arnulfo

Our own biases are invisible to ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche said it well: There are no facts, only interpretations. Moreover, Fox News in the US, to give an example, has shown that unapologetic biased news is good entrainment and a commercial … Continue reading →

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forcing balance where there is none

Posted on 2015/06/10 by arnulfo

Katrina vanden Heuvel July 15, 2014 We’ve seen it in climate change reporting; we see it in shutdown coverage. Journalists should be unbiased, yes, but not brainless. Earlier this month, the BBC’s governing body issued a report assessing the BBC’s … Continue reading →

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virii

Posted on 2015/06/02 by arnulfo

China orders ban on hookup app following “girl has sex for travel” hoax (Tech in Asia) Snopes Emergent (Unfortunately, this rumor tracker website stopped updating after the above lecture video was made. This article from the Poynter Institute explains what happened) AntiViral (Gawker) The Intersect (Washington Post) … Continue reading →

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Mexican journalists at risk

Posted on 2015/04/04 by arnulfo

Mexico’s Secretary of Interior Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong called the country’s Mechanism to Protect Journalists a “failure” that will require restructuring to carry out its responsibilities as established by the law, Proceso magazine reported. Marisol Macías Castañeda, also appearing as … Continue reading →

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nut graph

Posted on 2015/03/12 by arnulfo

In journalism, a nut graph is a paragraph, particularly in a feature story, that explains the news value of the story.[1][2] The term is also spelled as nut graf, nut ‘graph, nutgraph, nutgraf. It is a contraction of the expression … Continue reading →

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