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The Los Angeles Toxic Tour: Request for Proposals

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Would you like to bring the award-winning “Toxic Tour” reporting project to Los Angeles? Newsdesk.org and Spot.Us welcome proposals from journalists interested in developing new coverage of pollution and environmental health in Los Angeles communities. Proposals are due Nov. 12 for short-term projects using text and multimedia to document pollution and communities in greater Los Angeles. Topics include neighborhoods, economics, industry, land use, transportation, politics, activism, environment and health. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Newsdesk News, The Toxic Tour, Journalism, Media, pollution, Public Health

Blogging Booms Worldwide, Repression on its Heels

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With Internet use booming worldwide, tens of thousands of new blogs written in Farsi, Arabic, Chinese and other languages are inspiring both civic activism and government crackdowns. Worldwide, nearly half of all imprisoned media workers are online journalists or bloggers, according to a new study by the Committee to Protect Journalists that names Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Tunisia and Syria as leaders in online repression. Continue Reading →

Filed under: Democracy & Civics, World, Media, News You Might Have Missed

What now for J-Schools?

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It was a sobering moment. The new director of the University of Iowa's School of Journalism and Mass Communications, David D. Perlmutter, last December distributed a chart to members of his school's professional advisory board. It showed that applicants to the school were so flat this past year that practically anybody who applied was approved for admission to the two-year undergraduate program. It begged the question many people in the field are asking, to wit, what's a journalism school to do? Continue Reading →

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