Thursday, August 30, 2007

News coverage and media issues debated by journalists, educators C-Span's website is offering more than 10 hours of video files from August's Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication national convention, including a keynote speech by Bill Moyers and a "how we covered the story" panel discussion of the Virginia Tech shootings. I'll add more detail to these links after class tonight, but wanted to get them online where students can see them. Most panels were 90 minutes; the full-length streaming video requires Real Player or Windows Media player. Wednesday: Intellectual Property and Commercial Speech (panel), Telecommunications Policy (panel), Modern Newsgathering (panel). Thursday: Bill Moyers keynote address on the State of Journalism (video or text transcript); Future of the News Industry (panel), History of Television News (panel). Friday: Newspaper Ownership Changes (panel), Media Coverage of the Virginia Tech Tragedy (panel). The Virginia Tech panel includes reporters from NBC, the Roanoke Times, Time magazine and the VT student newspaper, with comments from a media ethics expert and questions from the audience of professors and grad students. I recommend the 90 minute discussion to journalism and media studies students who want a picture of how journalists react to covering a horrible story, how they used the social networking technology of Facebook, and how they as individuals reacted to the general "media circus" of a big story with national interest. Lots of food for thought and discussion... although here at Radford students may have a different perspective on the continuing coverage of such a local event (and continuing classroom discussions of it). (Note: I shared an earlier address for the Virginia Tech panel with students by e-mail, but it turned out to be a link that expired after 15 days. These links are more "archival." C-Span also sells DVDs of the panels and speeches.) 6:57:33 PM    comment []

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