News 2011-2012 Academic Year
Center Research Shows Job Market Improving Slightly
The job market for graduates of the nation's journalism and mass communication programs showed signs of improvements in 2011 and 2012, continuing the trend from a year earlier, researchers from the University of Georgia told a gathering of journalism educators in Chicago in early August.
Center Researchers Coordinate Issue of French Journal on Media Freedom
University of Georgia researchers coordinated a special issue of the French academic journal, ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies, that was published in July and focused on trends in evaluation of media freedom and the role of the media in the democratization process.
Researchers Say Public Can Assess Media Freedom
The public is able to provide quite meaningful assessments of the level of media freedom in the country of residence, researchers from the University of Georgia and the Gallup organization reported at a conference of communication scholars in Durban, South Africa, in July.
Research Team Examines Difference in Measurement of Press Freedom for Lyon Conference
While Freedom House and Reporters Without Borders use seemingly similar measures of press freedom around the world, important differences between the measures exist, researchers from the University of Georgia and the University of Hamburg told a gathering of international scholars in Lyon, France, in early July.
Cox International Center Director Teaches Two Courses at German Institute
Cox International Center Director Dr. Lee B. Becker returned in June to an institute in Germany where he has taught twice before to deliver two short courses, one focusing on his research on measurement of media freedom and the other an overview of the changing landscape for journalism in the United States.
Romanian and U.S. Experts Discuss Importance of Political Polls
Experts from Romania and the United States told about 40 students, faculty and journalists gathered at the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest in early May that political polling is now an integral part of election coverage in both countries.
Swedish Consumer Journalist Has a One Week Program in the Grady College
Swedish journalist Annika Berge spent one week at the University of Georgia in April learning about consumer journalism in the United States and about changes in the U.S. media landscape produced by the new technologies and by the economic crisis.
German Doctoral Student, Journalist, Spends Month as Visiting Scholar
Laura Schneider, a doctoral student from the University of Hamburg, completed a four-week visit to the Cox International Center at the University of Georgia in late April where she worked on her dissertation research and on a collaborative research project on discrepancies in press freedom indicators.
Cox Center Director Joins Roundtable in New York on Future of Journalism Education
Dr. Lee B. Becker, director of the Cox International Center at the University of Georgia, was an invited participant at Columbia University in New York in April for a round-table discussion of the future of professional master's level education in journalism.
Austrian Journalist Learns about U.S. South from University of Georgia Visit
Austrian Journalist Thomas Frank spent three days at the University of Georgia in April learning about the media and about political, economic and social issues in the state of Georgia.
Associate Director Assists Romanian Doctoral Program
Dr. Tudor Vlad, the associate director of the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research at the University of Georiga, worked with Romanian faculty in March in Bucharest to redesign the goals and the curriculum of the doctoral program in communication.
Cox Center Researchers Attend Harriman Institute Session At Columbia University
University of Georgia researchers told a gathering of experts at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University in early March that they began their investigation of press freedom indicators as skeptics but became confident in the measures as their work progressed.
Cox Center Associate Director Conducts Training in Moldova Funded by the European Union
Dr. Tudor Vlad, associate director of the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research at the University of Georgia, conducted four workshops in the Republic of Moldova in December after having been selected for the project by the European Union Center for Press Freedom and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
Cox Center Researchers Say Media Assessments Linked to Factors Not Controlled by Media
When individuals evaluate the media in their country, they incorporate their assessments of other institutions, such as the government itself, as well as their own views about political issues, researchers at the University of Georgia and Gallup told a gathering of public opinion researchers in Chicago in November.
Chinese Government Officials Discuss Investigative Journalism in Cox Center Session
Twenty-five Chinese government officials discussed with Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication faculty the tradition of investigative journalism in the United States and the role of media in combating corruption during their visit at the University of Georgia in November.
Ten Russian-Speaking Journalists Visited University of Georgia as Murrow Fellows
Ten journalists from former Soviet countries engaged in an exchange about media in their countries and the U.S. during a pizza lunch with faculty and students at the University of Georgia in early November.
For almost two centuries, the legitimacy of the occupation of a journalist has depended on the printing and distribution of the journalists' products via mass media. Now, the new technologies have changed this situation and are challenging the status of professional journalists.
Research Team Discusses Confidence in the Media at Conference in Amsterdam
Citizens around the world are able to make assessments of the amount of freedom of the countries in which they live, but the level of confidence they have in the media is unrelated to the level of freedom they think the media have.
