Are the back pages and supplements real journalism, or just a bit of colour? Sports, IT, culture, lifestyle and entertainment might be thought of as the soft-end of journalism, but they make up an enormous part of the news media.
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May 25, 2012
44 min
Video
Are the back pages and supplements real journalism, or just a bit of colour? Sports, IT, culture, lifestyle and entertainment might be thought of as the soft-end of journalism, but they make up an enormous part of the news media.
Copyright 2012 Christopher Scanlon / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
May 25, 2012
44 min
Broadsheet good, Tabloid bad. That's one way of characterising the distinction between so-called 'quality' media and the tabloids. Another view has it that broadsheets and so-called quality news outlets are elitist and out of touch with people's everyday concerns.
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May 17, 2012
1 hr 10 min
Video
Broadsheet good, Tabloid bad. That's one way of characterising the distinction between so-called 'quality' media and the tabloids. Another view has it that broadsheets and so-called quality news outlets are elitist and out of touch with people's everyday concerns.
Copyright 2012 Christopher Scanlon / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
May 17, 2012
1 hr 10 min
How the business model of newspapers, magazines and increasingly, the book publishing industries is changing, and what the dynamics of the changing business model means for journalism.
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May 10, 2012
51 min
Video
How the business model of newspapers, magazines and increasingly, the book publishing industries is changing, and what the dynamics of the changing business model means for journalism.
Copyright 2012 Christopher Scanlon / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
May 10, 2012
51 min
Social media has changed our social reality — including journalism. Social media tools (including blogs, wikis, social networks and video sharing services) have undeniably blurred the boundaries between journalism as a practice and journalism as a profession.
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May 7, 2012
1 hr 24 min
Video
Social media has changed our social reality — including journalism. Social media tools (including blogs, wikis, social networks and video sharing services) have undeniably blurred the boundaries between journalism as a practice and journalism as a profession.
Copyright 2012 Christopher Scanlon / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
May 7, 2012
1 hr 24 min
A core function of the press is to reflect a society back to itself. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the case of the relations of the sexes. Indeed, in the west, at least, the press has played a key role in facilitating relations of equality — both directly as an employer of women and also in speaking up for the rights of women. Perhaps. But not always. This seminar examines how the press and journalists have helped to constitute and shape gender relations.
Apr 27, 2012
1 hr 28 min
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A core function of the press is to reflect a society back to itself. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the case of the relations of the sexes. Indeed, in the west, at least, the press has played a key role in facilitating relations of equality — both directly as an employer of women and also in speaking up for the rights of women. Perhaps. But not always. This seminar examines how the press and journalists have helped to constitute and shape gender relations.
Apr 27, 2012
1 hr 28 min
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