Dispatches from a Northeastern University student abroad. NU Journalism in Spain 2015. I used to always compare points in .

With all the improvements in technology over the last few decades a new challenge has arisen in the newsroom. That challenge is how, and what for, do we use chyrons. Even over the last few years this question has increased in difficulty, and gained higher stakes, due to the viral nature of our society.

At the Techonomy conference held in Half Moon Bay, California; two days after the presidential election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued that it was extremely unlikely that the fake news perpetuated on his social media website affected the outcome of the election. As a journalism student, creating content is not my only duty to my audience; correcting and bringing attention to mistakes are also a part of the job. We are expert fact checkers and since a.

The Huntington News and the Ethics of Reporting on Sexual Assault. Who Owns the News? November 13, 2016. My Journalism Ethics course was recently taken over by guest professor Dan Kennedy for several weeks.

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The Ethics of Wealthy Private Newspaper Owners. In my ethics class, we recently spent time discussing the potential trend of wealthy individuals buying newspapers, like John Henry did with the Boston Globe or Jeff Bezos did with the Washington Post. We also read a piece. That our guest professor, Dan Kennedy, wrote on the subject, which is worth checking out. A good friend of mine works for a news .