THE FACT THAT “MANY OF THE GREATEST JOURNALISTS” OF THE PAST – OR EVEN OF THE PRESENT – DID NOT GET JOURNALISM DEGREES HAS NO BEARING ON WHETHER CURRENT STUDENTS WILL NEED THOSE DEGREES IN THE FUTURE. THINGS CHANGE. IN MY OWN CASE, I STUDIED HISTORY IN COLLEGE IN THE 1970S AND WOR...
There are different degrees of production and in-depth multimedia is not a replacement for existing forms of journalism. However, for the appropriate subject, it can deliver unequalled emotion, clarity and understanding. Q. In countries and regions where high-speed Internet is still not very preva...
75% of these degrees are clearly fairly or totally worthless many are actively damaging. Listen to the Black Studies Prof. from City of Birmingham University on QuestionTime recently for example. It seems that the UK are considering banning the imported mineral water in retaliation to the EU ...
So, since we are famously a storytelling species, how have the fiction writers of the Anthropocene tackled the rolling catastrophe of a world heading for four degrees of warming in the lifetime of any baby born today? With shocking inadequacy, according to Amitav Ghosh, who in his 2016 lectu...
and one sex is not superior to the other. Indeed, she said the evidence suggests that men and women are complementary and that the elements of the gender extremes are usually present in everyone, to varying degrees. Thus, she continued, most men are “womanly” to some extent, and most ...
emlúps te Secwépemc announcement of a newly-confirmed burial ground is an instance of shock but not necessarily of surprise. For decades the existence of unmarked graves on and near former residential school properties had been known among the former students, and many of them told me so when...
(and inflated price) of traditional display advertising. In the magazine industry one of the big growth areas of the past 20 years was client publishing: helping – to varying degrees – companies create magazines which were then given or sold to customers, staff, members, or anyone interested...
But when they say it’s 32 degrees, they mean it’s freezing. People in China are baffled because they seem to be saying that it’s 90 degrees (Fahrenheit) – 32 degrees Celsius. By the way, I am 168 cm tall. You can’t always get what you want. Some food favorites from the U...
not involving what would be called a ‘proper name’ to stipulate this. Suppose someone states that 100 degrees centigrade is the temperature at which water boils at sea level. Of course, historically, a more precise definition was given later, but let’s suppose that this were the definition...
In most cases these professionals might have multiple degrees from Ivy League institutions, but they lacked any training or education in the topics they were discussing on air. I went through each media source and searched for experts who discussed some aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic. I ...