Georgia State University Media & Society Program

Congratulations to Natalie Tindall for achieving APR certification from the Public Relations Society of America.

New study released by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, prepared by former research fellow Abdalla Hassan, contextualizes the relationship between the media and Egyptian politics. Overview and link to the full PDF report here: http://ow.ly/mG7ub

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism / Media Censorship in Egypt Abdalla Hassan, a former Gerda Henkel Fellow at the Reuters Institute has just produced the most comprehensive and up to date analysis of the...

An account of how data journalism changed reporting of the medal counts won at the London Olympic Games, just posted last week by the Guardian: http://ow.ly/mG4KK

Data journalism in action the London Olympics Daily News America - Breaking national news, video Martha Stewart confesses she sexts, 'maybe' had a th*****me New York Magazine Journalists...

Today in 1899 the first issue of the Wall Street Journal was published. Today, the WSJ is the nation's largest newspaper by circulation, nearly 2.5 million a day (USA Today comes in second at about 1.7 million daily). WSJ has won 35 Pulitzer Prizes, including the 2007 Public Service prize for reporting on stock options abuses.

Excerpts from a recent roundtable on political polarization in journalism, held at the Aspen Institute in June, and featuring Kurt Andersen, Azra Klein, and others: http://ow.ly/mG4y3

Political Polarization in Journalism "The Future of News: Is It the End of Journalism as We Know It?" at the 2013 Aspen Ideas Festival. The digital revolution and changing economic...

What is it like to report a hurricane? A video from BBC's Laura Trevelyan explains: http://ow.ly/mwoiD

Live The Story: Laura Trevelyan on reporting a hurricane Live The Story: Laura Trevelyan on reporting a hurricane

The National Communication Association has just posted program details relating to the November annual convention scheduled for Washington, DC. Details and links to the full program here:

NCA 99th Annual Convention The National Communication Association advances communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific and aesthetic inquiry.