Latinos and mass communication

Check out the National Association of Hispanic Journalists link, for its discussion of these terms: illegals, illegal aliens, undocumented workers, undocumented immigrants.

http://www.nahj.org

Here's a link to a Fort Worth Business Press story about marketing to Latinos, and the complexities of that task:
http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=8386

We'll talk more about this in the second third of the semester.

Crime, race and content analysis

Here are two studies that refer to crime reporting in Philadelphia and other large cities; both include reference to KVUE in Austin and that station's attempt in the 1990s to curb crime reporting, which tends to distort and exaggerate criminal activity and to extend stereotypes of blacks as criminals, whites and victims.

www.localtvnews.org/papers/CrimeCommLocalTVNews.pdf

http://www.justicejournalism.org/pdfs/SceneOfTheCrime.pdf

Internship ops for journalism students

College journalism students are invited to apply for the 2009 Scripps Howard Foundation Semester in Washington Program.

Six interns, including one international student, work as reporters for the Scripps Howard Foundation Wire in our downtown Washington bureau. We pay a stipend and provide free housing in furnished apartments in Northwest Washington near the National Zoo.

Interns’ stories are published on our Web-based wire: www.shfwire.com. Some of their stories may go to the Scripps Howard News Service’s 400 client newspapers. Interns may write for hometown or campus newspapers and earn internship or independent study credits through their universities. We tour Washington journalism and government institutions, bring in guest speakers and meet weekly to discuss issues in journalism.

The program is open to college juniors and seniors who are studying print or online journalism. It is not open to graduates or graduate students. Download the application form at our Web site. I’m also attaching a PDF document about the program that you can forward to faculty and students or post on a bulletin board. Thank you

2009 Program dates and application deadlines

Spring – 15 weeks

Program: Jan. 12 to April 24, a special program that includes the presidential inauguration and the National Journalism Awards dinner

Stipend: $2,450

Application postmark deadline: Nov. 1, 2008

Summer – 10 weeks

Program: June 8 to Aug. 14

Stipend: $1,800

Application postmark deadline: Nov. 1, 2008

Fall – 14 weeks

Program: Sept. 14 to Dec. 18

Stipend: $2,350

Application postmark deadline: March 16, 2009

For next week, Sept. 18

See information about media effects readings, below on Sept. 11 entry--there are links instead of handouts. Be sure to check out the "Girl Like Me" link, in terms of effects, and we'll continue our discussion of race and reporting (and the video we watched in class on Sept. 11). We'll also tackle the Jessica Lynch and Shoshana Johnson case (see links in Sept. 11 entry).

Here's a short example of a ministudy (choice 2):

I examined the "Home" section of the New York Times, Sept. 11, 2008. Although it was a 10-page section, three full pages were advertising. For this analysis, I used both quantitative and qualitative content analysis. First, all stories in the section were coded by byline (whether male or female), sources used (male or female), and subject of stories (whether focused on a man or a woman). Second, all photographs were analyzed and described for a more qualitative measure. Another qualitative measure was attempted by scanning all stories for descriptions of people. These descriptions were analyzed and compared, to determine how gender and race may have played a role in these descriptions.

In terms of the quantitative measure, 5 stories were written by men, and 6 were written by women. Sources in these stories were evenly divided between men and women, with .....

OK, this should help you get started on your own ministudy--let me know your questions.

Media effects discussion: A Girl Like Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyI77Yh1Gg

Lynch and Johnson: Exploited? Forgotten?

Search via Google, if you like, and here are some links to get you started:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/shoshana.asp

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/iraq/2008/03/18/jessica-lynch-recalls-her-captivity-in-iraq.html

Readings for week 4

In lieu of the media effects readings listed on your syllabus, please read:

http://www.apa.org/ppo/0907DillTestimony.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_East_and_Southeast_Asians