Survey responses from 232 journalism educators in 33 nations were analyzed for descriptions of how they have taught a subset of the most pedagogically challenging computer-assisted reporting (CAR) skills-advanced data analysis. Respondents' programs were sorted into three instructional groupings: (1) Comprehensive programs offering coherent curricula for learning three basic and six advanced analytic reporting competencies, (2) mixed adoption programs that make data analytic learning optional and student directed, and (3) lagging programs that provide weak learning opportunities. We also statistically address U.S. versus non-U.S. contrasts, and features of U.S. programs offering analytic training also are statistically addressed. Barriers to expanding such training are discussed.
Journalism education traditionally has focused on the work product of the profession: writing the news story. The changing information environment-wherein quantitative and textual data are stored in digital form, retrieved with telecommunications tools, and subject to analysis with a variety of personal computer applicationsdemands greater attention to the first three steps of the RRAW-P (research-reportinganalysis-writing and publication) process. Suggestions for an analytic journalism curriculum are made, along with a call for faculty training.
This study examines the structures and operations of the Nigeria Police Public Relations Department (NPPRD) saddled with the responsibility of improving relationship between the police and the civil populace. In-depth interview method was used to ascertain the structures and strategies put in place by NNPRD to engendered a civic, corrupt-free, public-friendly and operationally capable police force for Nigeria. The interviewed covered a cross section of the Nigerian police and members of the public-police community relations. Consequently, contrary to popular expectations, the study reveals that NPPRD has evolved vibrant structures and mechanisms such as Police Public Complaint Bureau, Police Community Relations Committees and the various organs of the Community-Policing Project scattered all over the country which are aimed at bridging the gap between the police and the public with a view of curbing police inappropriate use of lethal force, extrajudicial killings, intimidation, extortion, illegal arrest and detention, among others. The study concludes that more awareness programme is required for the effort to sanitize the police force to be appreciated by the member of the public. The study recommends that NNPRD should be autonomous and public relations professionals recruited into its fold; rigorous background check of recruits in order to weed out people of questionable characters at the point of entry and the design of curriculum that would inculcate modern policing ideals and democratic values in police rank and file.
Communication policy is the legal and institutional framework that defines the nature, structure, procedure and operations of media system of any given society. It is influenced and shaped by the prevailing socioeconomic and political dimensions of such society. Thus, communication policy varies from society to society, and nations to nations. Communication policy does not only provide the legal framework but also serve as the mechanism and instrument of institutionalization of media system in the society. The paper provided an explanation of the various theories underpinning communication policy. The paper examined the epistemology of the philosophical thinking that shaped media systems globally. These theories: normative theory of the press, medium theory, general system, agenda setting function, and gate keeping theory; are not mutually exclusive to communication policy, but they provide the framework upon which communication policy could be anchored on. Though there exist a plethora of theories of communication relating to communication policy, but the theoretical postulations identified and discussed in the paper provided the framework that guides media operations in the society. These theories provided the starting point for critically examining the functions and roles of the media in the society. The authors here situate the assumptions of the theories as a foundation of communication policy, a determining factor outlining media system and practice in modern society.
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