[MUSIC PLAYING] KRISHNA ANDAVOLU: We’re on the side of a mountain. And there’s about thousands of marijuana plants around us. -This is like, two, three hectares– like 20, 30,000 plants. And then you know that you’re going to find a champion there if you look long enough. It’s a massive field, full of pot. KRISHNA ANDAVOLU: You might […]
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Honors programs at The Media School
The Ernie Pyle Scholars has been around for a very long time. What the administration recognized was that we have this wonderful prestigious program for our journalism students, but we were ignoring the other half of our Media School students. The Media Scholars Program is our inaugural group. It just started this year, and this provides the same […]
Tips for the television spokesperson
My number one piece of advice is, you’ve got to like what you’re doing, because if you don’t like talking to people and knowing that you’re on TV, it shows. And that’s not great, and you won’t feel happy about it, So you do have to develop a comfort level. If—you could be a bit of a ham—and […]
Do Whistleblower Protections Work? Ask This One. | Retro Report
Battered by the impeachment hearings, President Donald Trump has focused on discrediting the whistleblower who lit the fuse. “We have to know. Is the whistleblower a spy?” “I mean, there’s always a way to smear the whistleblower.” “I know the difference between a whistleblower and a deep state operative. This is a deep state operative pure and simple.” […]
Media bias in education coverage? | IN 60 SECONDS
In an era marked by heated claims of media bias, journalists need to ensure that news coverage is independent and impartial. Education, the field I know best, is one where it should be easy to meet this bar. To see where things stand, two colleagues and I analyzed major media news coverage of federal education in 2009 and […]
Dorothy Butler Gilliam – Why the Media Is More Important Than Ever | The Daily Show
-Thank you so much. -Thank you so much for being here. This is one of those stories that genuinely hit me so hard, because it feels like you have lived through some of the most seminal moments in American history, and you were also reporting on it. You… you worked for 50 years in this business. What do […]
How Social Media Killed Traditional News | Oliver Luckett
For all of the history up until this point, our communication structures have for the most part, especially mass media systems, have been very top down and they’ve been controlled by a few people that had distribution control. If you look back the church was really the first broadcast network. The church built out a very defined architecture […]
The media won’t get less politicized. News consumers must get smarter. | Keith Whittington
Traditional media outlets remain extraordinarily important to how we communicate and develop ideas. They’ve not been completely displaced by Facebook and Twitter and the like. In lots of ways, the internet is parasitic on traditional media sources because it’s those traditional news outlets that are doing the hard reporting, for example, that generates the facts that other people […]
