The Abilene Reporter News has been planning for quite some time to implement an online subscription service for its news coverage. If this plan is realized, the Reporter News would be following a trend of many other newspapers around the country in converting to an online format instead of a daily delivered print product. With this change, ... [Read More…]
Students, faculty awarded at competition
Dr. Kenneth Pybus was named Adviser of Year and the JMC Network staff won various awards including TV sweepstakes at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association convention in Corpus Christi last week. Pybus, associate professor of journalism and mass communication, won the award for his exceptional mentoring during coverage of the Nov. 4 bus ... [Read More…]
Letter from the Editor: Trust between journalists and audience imperative
By Paul A. Anthony, Editor in Chief Journalism has seen better summers. A quick rundown will prove the point easily enough: * The New York Times was rocked by a scandal in which reporter Jayson Blair was discovered to have plagiarized stories, made up facts and fabricated datelines. He was quickly dismissed, and editor Howell Raines and managing ... [Read More…]