Pub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.1177/1326365X20945427
Faith Valencia-Forrester
Journalism in higher education must find new ways of producing work-ready graduates who are prepared for the rapidly changing news media environment. Traditional internships are under increasing scrutiny over their quality and equitability. The past few years have seen a number of innovative models of work-integrated learning (WIL) emerging in journalism education. This article considers Event WIL as a model of university-led WIL in journalism education that brings academia and industry together in partnership to build the capacity of all student journalists to work in a dynamic media landscape. This article makes an argument for Event WIL as a model of WIL in journalism education by drawing on a case study of the Griffith University Commonwealth Games Media Centre at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in 2018. This case study provides insights into the key tenets of Event WIL: long-term preparation, harnessing pre-event WIL experiences, providing in-depth induction, establishing a hybrid space for a partnership between industry and academia and creating authentic opportunities for student publication are detailed. Notably, the WIL case study not only resulted in quality outcomes for students, but it also resulted in benefits for academics and industry representatives.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.1177/1326365x20929129
Preeti Raghunath
Hilde Van den Bulck, Manuel Puppis, Karen Donders, Leo Van Audenhove (eds). The Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 681 pp, €187,19 (hardback).
Hilde Van den Bulk，Manuel Puppis，Karen Donders，Leo Van Audenhove（编辑）。帕尔格雷夫媒体政策研究方法手册。英国贝辛斯托克：Palgrave Macmillan，2019，681页，187,19欧元（精装本）。
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Pub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.1177/1326365x20961857
S. Muppidi
We are living through an unusual scenario. The COVID-19 pandemic has caught us flat-footed and put the brakes on a lot of our lifestyle habits that we had taken for granted in a fast-paced, globalized world. As the world copes with this pandemic, the race is on to find a vaccine while people practice social distancing and other lifestyle changes. In the absence of any viable pharmacological solutions, for now, the stress is on behavioural and social modifications that can only help slow the spread of the virus. The COVID-19 lockdown has also contributed to delaying the publication of this issue. I am thankful to the SAGE publication team for ensuring that we still got this issue out in print. The seven peer-reviewed articles in this issue broadly deal with various aspects of journalism education. Ong Sheau Wen, Ihediwa Samuel Chibundu and Siah Poh Chua examine how Malaysian newspapers framed Chinese primary education for a 3-year period (2015–2017) before the 2018 election. They explored if political considerations remained central in mainstream newspapers’ reporting and whether official sources were dominant in shaping public understanding of the issue. They conclude that the proximity of elections had led to a surge in news reporting about Chinese primary education and that there was indeed a variation in reporting strategies employed by Malaysian newspapers, with each newspaper framing Chinese primary education in different ways—ways that aligned with very different interests. Neha Jindal addresses the use of new media by administrators/educators in private and public journalism schools in India and focuses on their willingness to adopt the requisite skill set and display adaptability concerning acceptance of new media and adoption in curriculum, instruction, evaluation and feedback. She concludes,
我们正在经历一个不同寻常的情况。新冠肺炎大流行让我们陷入困境，并阻止了我们在快节奏、全球化的世界中认为理所当然的许多生活习惯。随着世界应对这场疫情，在人们保持社交距离和其他生活方式改变的同时，寻找疫苗的竞赛正在进行。在缺乏任何可行的药物解决方案的情况下，目前的重点是行为和社会改变，这只能帮助减缓病毒的传播。新冠肺炎封锁也推迟了本期的出版。我感谢SAGE出版团队确保我们仍能出版这一期。本期的七篇同行评审文章大致涉及新闻教育的各个方面。Ong Sheau Wen、Ihediwa Samuel Chibundu和Siah Poh Chua研究了马来西亚报纸如何在2018年大选前对中国小学教育进行3年（2015-2017）的框架。他们探讨了政治因素是否仍然是主流报纸报道的核心，以及官方消息来源是否在塑造公众对这一问题的理解方面占主导地位。他们得出的结论是，选举的临近导致了有关中国小学教育的新闻报道激增，马来西亚报纸采用的报道策略确实存在差异，每家报纸都以不同的方式报道中国小学教育，这些方式符合非常不同的利益。Neha Jindal介绍了印度私立和公立新闻学校的管理人员/教育工作者对新媒体的使用，并重点介绍了他们是否愿意采用必要的技能，并在接受新媒体以及在课程、教学、评估和反馈中采用新媒体方面表现出适应性。她总结道，
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Pub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.1177/1326365X20945416
O. Wen, I. Chibundu, Siah Poh Chua
In Malaysia, Chinese vernacular education has been a highly contested and much debated political issue in the mass media. This study examines how Malaysian newspapers framed Chinese primary education for a 3-year period (2015–2017) which is before the 2018 election. Findings showed that, the proximity of election has led to a surge in news reporting about Chinese primary education. Political considerations remain central in mainstream newspapers’ reporting in which official sources are dominant in shaping public understanding of the issue. Alternative newspapers serve as a counter-establishment platform through active participation of readers in public debate. A responsibility frame dominates the news coverage of Chinese primary education in both types of newspapers. Nevertheless, the alternative newspapers tend to focus on the conflict aspect of the issue by foregrounding discord between ruling and opposition politicians as well as intra-Barisan Nasional (BN) disputes. Through human interest frame, the mainstream newspapers emotionalize the issue to obtain readers’ attention. This study concludes that varying reporting strategies adopted by Malaysian newspapers can impact readers’ evaluation of education policy issues. The implications of the findings and the limitations of the study are also discussed.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.1177/1326365x20924858
Aniruddha Jena
Biswajit Das (ed). Gandhian Thought and Communication: Rethinking the Mahatma in the Media Age. New Delhi, India: SAGE Publications, 2020, 271 pp., ₹1,095 (hardback). ISBN 9789353286682.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.1177/1326365X20923200
Geeta Kashyap, Harikrishnan Bhaskaran
With emergent subspecialties like data journalism bringing new skillsets and job roles, professionals and journalism educators find it difficult to imbibe the fast-changing industry demands. Such challenges in some countries and media industries put journalism educators in an advantageous position, offering them an agency to actively shape the contours of industry practice than getting shaped by it. From this perspective, the present study tries to understand data journalism practices in India and suggests certain insights to integrate data journalism training in programmes offered by Indian journalism education. By probing insights from the literature on data journalism education and by examining existing data journalism practices in India, the study calls for intervention with a pedagogic strategy to impart better data-sourcing practices, coding skills and critical data literacy among the students as an antidote to the prevalent DIY culture and overdependence on data aggregates. The pedagogic strategy should convey the importance of audience centrality and ethics in data journalism practice. It argues that such an approach can, in effect, improve industry practices as well as the quality of journalism education in India.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.1177/1326365x20945430
N. Jindal
With new media becoming the mainstay of the journalism industry, there is a change in curriculum and pedagogy in journalism education. Even with Web 2.0 becoming the main source of news dissemination, journalism educators will still be required to impart skills to the next generation on writing with clarity, organizing ideas cleanly and working efficiently as a team. The change will be in the methodology, and has to be accepted by the institution at the administrative level first. Since journalism education is required to develop a rational capacity in future graduates, and help them attain all skills essential to understand the media industry with regard to new media practices and changing trends, journalism administrators and educators have to be ably equipped with the skills, only then these can be delivered to the students. The study is about private and public (government) journalism schools in India and focuses on their willingness to adopt the requisite skill set and display adaptability towards using new media. It includes interviews conducted with administrators (who are also educators) in government and private journalism institutions in the country, concerning acceptance of new media and adoption in curriculum, instruction, evaluation and feedback, and arrives at results interpretatively.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.1177/1326365X20941398
Deepak B.J., Usha M. Rodrigues, P. Rani
The advent of the internet has posed threats as well as offered new opportunities for the traditional news media industry. The innumerable potentials of the internet include instant delivery of news, multimedia content and other user-friendly features to media consumers. Since digital news consumption is proliferating in India, it is important to study how Indian regional newspapers have adapted to new media technological advancements. Using Zamith’s (2008. 9th International Symposium on Online Journalism, 1–8) methodological framework, we identify various potentials of the internet that can be utilized by the traditional media offering news online. The study examines the extent to which Indian regional news sites have incorporated these potentials—interactivity, hypertextuality, multimediality, immediacy, memory, personalization, ubiquity, creativity and other latest new media technologies. Roger Fidler’s ‘mediamorphosis theory’ is employed as a theoretical approach to examine how regional language newspapers are responding to technological advancements. The study looks at three news sites of the most circulated Kannada language (a regional language of Karnataka state) newspapers. Our study finds that Indian regional news sites only partially use the internet’s potentials and are unable to explore some of the internet’s features due to their rigid organizational policies and a lack of multiskilled workforce.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.1177/1326365X20945417
D. Robie, J. Marbrook
A three-year Pacific climate research and storytelling documentary and journalism project has contributed to a disruption and renewal theme in Pacific Island Countries development. Focused initially on Fiji, the project has involved three pairs of postgraduate students engaging with climate crisis challenges. Responding originally to the devastation and tragedy wrought in Fiji by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston in 2016, the Pacific Media Centre embarked on the Bearing Witness journalism project by sending two postgraduate students to Viti Levu to document and report on the impact of climate change (Robie & Chand, 2017). Their main component was a multimedia report on Daku village in the Rewa River delta area. This was followed in 2017 with a series of reports leading to a multimedia package on the relocation of the remote inland village of Tukuraki (Robie, 2018). The third episode focused far more strongly on documentary with reports on waka navigation and climate change, the ‘ghost village’ of Vunidogoloa and a ‘homecoming’ short feature about the Banaban people of Rabi and the impact on them caused by climate change. The project explores Friere’s notions of ‘critical consciousness’ as they might relate to teaching documentary-making and also draw on the concept of talanoa journalism.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1177/1326365X19886971
S. Melkote
I arrived in Iowa City in the Fall of 1980 to pursue graduate study in media and communication. I had already developed an interest in development communication study and practice by then. When I did my MS degree work in Bengaluru University in India, the Satellite Instruction Television Experiment (SITE) was launched by the Indian government. SITE was a huge experiment in bringing information, communication, education and pro-social entertainment directly to remote villages from a satellite. All students in my cohort were encouraged to write their master’s thesis on some aspect of SITE. I chose to study challenges of organizational and interpersonal issues in the work environment of television producers in the four production centres at Ahmedabad, Cuttack, New Delhi and Hyderabad. It was fascinating that a live social/communication experiment was going on and we were in the front ranks! There was no special reason to have chosen the MA programme in Journalism and Mass Communication at Iowa other than the fact that it was a good programme and my sponsor insisted I go there! However, this was one of those blind dates that turned out to be terrific! I was introduced to Dr Joe Ascroft, an expert in development communication, and was told that he would be my academic advisor. What followed has been a wonderful and eventful journey of nearly 40 years in development communication study and research with Joe and the rest of the gang at the school, which included Alan Brody, Leslie Steeves, Robert Agunga, Ab Gratama and Jacob Matovu. Joe was a teacher, mentor, advisor and friend all rolled into one. His development communication classes were so much fun. He would relate one story after another about cultural and field-based development problems in Africa. It took me a while to realize that every story was packed with didactic value. Behind every cultural story was an issue of communication, which had been rendered ineffective due to blindness towards local culture, knowledge and practice. Behind every story about a field-based development problem were lessons about inefficacies of foreign aid and technical assistance programmes, which created additional problems of development. Leslie Steeves writes,
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