While many of us complain about being on too many mailing lists and listserves, I find them generally harmless and, on occasion, very helpful. One of the most useful I am on is not a public list, but I got two good ideas from it today that I’ll share below.
I refer to the mailing list of the Council of National Journalism Organizations, a group of 40-plus national associations. This group – which represents, alphabetically, the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors to Unity: Journalists of Color – has become an important way for these various groups to communicate better and work together. More on the Council is available here, a list of member groups is here, and a list of national conventions is here.
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If you are the president or a staff member of a NATIONAL (no local groups are admitted) journalism organization that isn’t a member of the Council, you can see if you qualify by writing to Ted Gest (tgest at sas.upenn.edu). He wears two hats: president of Criminal Justice Journalists and coordinator of the Council.
So here are the two new sites (or sections of sites) I learned about today.
RTNDA’s Guide to Health Coverage Under HIPAA: This document, written by the Radio-Television News Directors Association’s counsel, Kathleen Kirby (and an attorney with Wiley, Rein & Fielding in Washington), is a list of answers to questions about how journalists’ access to information has been affected by HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996). HIPAA is increasingly playing a role in the kind of medical information journalists get and this excellent guide should be mandatory reading in every newsroom (and not just for the medical reporters).
AEJMC’s Research You Can Use from Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly: These are articles from the refereed journal of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication that a group of volunteer faculty and staff think might interest working journalists.
From the Summer 2003 issue:
- Randal Beam, Indiana: “Content Differences Between Daily Newspapers with Strong and Weak Market Orientations.”
- Peter J. Gade, Oklahoma, and Earnest Perry, Missouri: “Changing the Newsroom Culture: A Four-Year Case Study of Organizational Development at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.”
- David Niven, Florida Atlantic: “Objective Evidence of Media Bias: Newspaper Coverage of Congressional Party Switchers.”
From the Autumn 2003 issue:
- Dominick L. Lasora, Texas at Austin: “Question-Order Effects in Surveys: The Case of the Political Interest, News Attention and Knowledge.” (PDF only)
- Amy Reynolds, Indiana, and Brooke Barnett, Elon: “This Just In … How National TV News Handled the Breaking ‘Live’ Coverage of September 11.” (PDF only)
I want to commend AEJMC for this strong attempt to bridge the classroom and the newsroom.
Your turn: Have a tip or site you want to recommend? Let me know at poynter@sree.net.
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