By Michael Shapiro Trouble in the local news industry has been smoldering for some time. The Coronavirus pandemic came along and doused it with gasoline, accelerating consolidation, cutbacks in coverage, sharp declines in advertising and in some cases, the shuttering… Read More ›
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Greg Mitchell book on Hiroshima arrives today
Greg Mitchell’s new book marking the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima arrives today. The book, The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood–and America–Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, is published by The… Read More ›
Sociology Profs See Greater Focus on Environment During Pandemic
Not all of the news emerging from the coronavirus pandemic is bleak, according to two faculty members of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at St. Bonaventure University. “Recent news has hinted at something of a shift, a move in… Read More ›
Status Quo or Silver Lining? Environmental Changes in a Pandemic
“Life [now] is somewhat more complicated than it was in the Middle Ages, but in many ways it is so much the same — violent, terrifying, full of chaos and plague, murderers and thieves. So the acknowledgement that in the… Read More ›
True Falsehoods
By Barry L. Gan Just as newspapers have long been concerned with reporting the truth, philosophers at least since the time of Socrates have also been concerned with matters of truth and falsity. Socrates himself, however, was less concerned with,… Read More ›
Jandoli Institute Will Launch ‘Media Studies Across Disciplines’ Project
The Jandoli Institute will launch Media Studies Across Disciplines, a collection of research essays by St. Bonaventure University faculty members, this week. The essays connect different academic disciplines with the field of communication. Faculty members used their knowledge and expertise… Read More ›
NY Communication Association will hold conference online
The New York State Communication Association will conduct its 2020 conference, Communication, Conduct, and Pragmatic Interplay, online from Oct. 16 to 18. The conference submission deadline is July 1. More details are in the conference Call for Papers.
NYT op-ed controversy rekindles questions about journalists’ activism
By Lee Coppola When I was co-teaching a media ethics course at St. Bonaventure with the venerable professor emeritus Mary Hamilton, the topic of journalists’ activism came up. I voiced my belief that journalists must remain non partisan, not even… Read More ›
Did COVID-19 coverage focus on the right topic?
Stories about the medical aspects of the coronavirus – symptoms, precautions and treatment – accounted for less than a fifth of media’s coverage of the pandemic during a six-week period from late March through early May, according to an informal… Read More ›
Bob Dylan and the inverted pyramid
By Richard Lee In a career that has spanned more than six decades, Bob Dylan has written songs of every size and shape. Dylan, who turns 79 today, even wrote one that follows the traditional structure of a news story…. Read More ›
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