Among the Media Journalism Education in a Commercial Culture

Journalism education as an academic pursuit has run its course during this century: from representing the interests of newspaper proprietors through a period of increasing academic standards and a new intellectual respectability to current alliances between media interests and educational endeavors. During this time journalism education has remained committed to meeting organizational demands without much consideration of the concrete historical conditions of working journalists. By focusing on the predicament of contemporary newswork I intend to place journalism education at the service of journalists and the struggle of intellectual labor-and against the commercialization of journalism in the United States. The larger context for this approach--of course--is the relationship between journalism and power. By identifying with various economic and political interests, American journalism has effectively abandoned its self-proclaimed cause of serving the people to accommodate its own fascination with social and political power. The resulting consequences for notions of news, democracy, and citizenship are considerable and must be of major interest to media studies and journalism education

Communication is power: an essay on authority and competence

This short essay describes the contemporary process of communication in (American) society and its relations to power in the guise of democratic practice. It offers a suggestive rather than exhaustive critique and argues for a turn of communication studies to a social and cultural critique of power, not only to enhance its theoretical position and validate its political standing in society, but to suggest revolutionary alternatives to present conceptions of (mass) communication that reinvent a democratic vision of communication in society.Esej opisuje sodobni proces komuniciranja v (ameriški) družbi in njegov odnos do moči, ki se skriva pod krinko demokratičnega delovanja. Ponuja bolj sugestivno kot obširno kritiko in se zavzema za obrat komunikoloških študij v smer družbene in kulturološke kritike moči. Tega ne počne zaradi poveličevanja take teoretske drže ali zaradi potrditve njene politične veljavnosti v družbi, temveč zato, ker hoče pokazati revolucionarne alternative, ki v nasprotju s sedanjimi koncepti (množičnega) komuniciranja pomenijo preporod demokratične vizije komuniciranja v družbi

International labour office: conditions of work and life of journalist

Prispevek prinaša izvlečke iz raziskave Mednarodnega urada za delo (ILO), ki je bila izvedena v letih 1925 in 1926 v novinarskih organizacijah 33 evropskihin ameriških držav in objavljena leta 1928. Rezultati, objavljeni v tem zgodovinskem dokumentu, so bili spodbuda razvoju profesionalnega modela novinarstva - zahtevajo ustrezno finančno nagrajevanje, varnost zaposlitve in osebno blaginjo novinarjev. Raziskava razkriva bedo novinarjev v mnogih državah po prvi svetovni vojni.This article contains excerpts from a 1925/26 survey by the International Labour Office in Geneva, published in 1928, and involving journalistic organisations in 33 countries in Europe and the Americas. As a historical document the results of the survey anticipate and reinforce the development of a professional model of journalism - they call for adequate financial compensation, job security, and personal welfare for the individual journalist. As such the survey illustrates the plight of the rank and file after World War I in several countries