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Category Archives: Chapter 15
Fighting Against “Fake News” with the Truth Sandwich
This week my media literacy class is working on the concept of fake news. I’m having them take a look at the history of how both the concept and term have been used over the last several centuries. Aside from … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 15, Chapter 6
Tagged fake news, Jay Rosen, media ethics, social media, truth sandwich
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Marie Colvin and the risks of covering war
Earlier this week I took my Global Media Literacy students to our wonderful local community World Theatre to see the Marie Colvin biopic, A Private War. The film tells the story of acclaimed war correspondent Marie Colvin (played Academy Award nominee Rosamund … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 15, Chapter 8
Tagged attacks on journalists, global media, Marie Colvin
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Dangerous Times Globally for Journalists
I’ve been putting off writing this blog post because I really don’t want to write it. I don’t like writing about a journalist being raped and murdered for trying to cover totalitarian regimes. another journalist has been murdered, once again … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 15, Chapter 6, Uncategorized
Tagged attacks on journalists, dangers journalists face, global news, Khashoggi
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Guest Blog Post: Another group of Afghan journalists killed; another note of condolences
My friend Dr. Chris Allen, a journalism professor at University of Nebraska at Omaha, has been working on global journalism issues from Russia, to Afghanistan, to Oman, and beyond. He writes occasional guest blog posts on international issues. He wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 15
Tagged Afghanistan, attacks on journalists, Chris Allen, guest blog
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Guest Blog Post: When a bomb explodes
Editor’s Note: The following blog post is from my old, old friend Dr. Chris Allen, who is a broadcast journalism professor at University of Nebraska – Omaha. For years he’s been traveling around the world as a media scholar and to take … Continue reading
Guest Blog Post: The Price of Global Journalism
My friend Dr. Chris Allen, a journalism professor at University of Nebraska at Omaha, has been working on global journalism issues from Russia, to Afghanistan, to Oman, and beyond. I am reposting what he wrote on November 22 with his permission as … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 15
Tagged attacks on journalists, Chris Allen, global media, guest blog
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Back To School With The Media
It’s Back To School time, so let’s look at some start-of-the-school-year themed stories: Oregon school district rescinds ban on rap music radio in school buses. Rule was no talk radio, religious radio, or rap music – pop/rock, country and jazz … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 15, Chapter 7, Uncategorized
Tagged Because I can, middle eastern media, Oman, social media
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Smart Analysis on Brussels Attacks from Joshua Hersh
We’ve had round the clock news about the bombings in Brussels over the last few days, but some of the sharpest reporting I’ve seen has come from freelancer Joshua Hersh’s Twitter feed. I’m to post several of his tweets from … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 15, Chapter 6
Tagged global news, Joshua Hersh, journalism, terrorism
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Everyone’s Gone to the Bollywood Movies
NOTE: I wanted to update some of my Bollywood materials and examples, so here is a fresh post with some old and some new material. I generally show the following clip from Bollywood musical Mohabbatein in class as a way to get … Continue reading
Trying to Control the News
There’ve been several stories over the last few days of governments attempting to control the news. Here are links to two of them: Judge forces Florida paper to “unpublish” information According to Columbia Journalism Review, a judge in Florida has … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 13, Chapter 15
Tagged censorship, prior restraint
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