Appreciation
Surviving A Segmenting Market
By Phil Robibero on 11/05/2009
Category: Appreciation
It wasn't so long ago that the news and entertainment business lived a fairly comfortable life. Advertisers paid the tab and people got their information from a limited array of mediums. Alas, the days of no surprises were bound to end with the exponential growth of the web. The internet brought in a new era of instant information, community involvement, and democratization. For media executives the worst part of it all was that it was free. MORE »
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Susan Moeller Interview: Role of Photography in Journalism
By Phil Robibero on 09/21/2009
Category: Appreciation, Assessment
An interview with UMD professor, Susan Moeller about the the idea of "promote" and the role of photography in journalism. MORE »
You're Born a Citizen, Not A Journalist
By Phil Robibero on 08/26/2009
Category: Appreciation
Recently I came back from a three week experience at the Schloss Leopoldskron located in Salzburg, Austria. The campus played host to the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change, a program that brings together people from all over the world to discuss the power of media within the global stage. The goal of the program was to teach the importance of media literacy and to generate awareness of media development and application. To this extent, the program succeeded in enlightening the participants and giving them the knowledge to spur media-centric discourse in their respective countries. MORE »
Putting Their Lives on the Line One Story at a Time
By Michelle Giametta on 08/17/2009
Category: Appreciation
Americans can turn on the television, pick up a newspaper, or put the radio on and get instantaneous information about something happening anywhere in the world miles and miles away. Most people never think twice about how it is these major networks are getting their information. Many reporters put their lives on the line in order to bring the news to people sitting cozily on their couches back home. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 724 journalists have been killed while on duty worldwide. Not to mention the large number of journalists who have been seriously injured or kidnapped MORE »
Network Programing: We drive its success
By Eric Ivanov on 08/12/2009
Category: Appreciation
It's no secret that ratings decided the success of TV Shows. If we don't watch the show we aren't going to tune in just to watch the commercials. TV is a business and commercials are what bring in the big bucks. Most people flip the channels and marvel at the type of programming that the networks put on their stations. Shows that are cheap to produce and net a large audience are the one that win out over other costly and more dramatic shows. MORE »
Jon Stewart: The Most Trusted Man in News
By Michelle Giametta on 08/02/2009
Category: Access, Appreciation, Awareness
It seems fitting that during a time of serious economic turmoil and war people would rather laugh at the news than be depressed by the gruesome reality of it all. It's way more entertaining to poke fun at political officials and events than it is to sit down and watch a panel of commentators discuss the latest breaking news story. In a recent poll done by Times Magazine, 44% of a total 9,409 people polled said that comedian Jon Stewart is America's most trusted newscaster now that Walter Cronkite has passed on- beating out veteran news anchors such as Brian MORE »
Where Have All The Film Critics Gone?
By Phil Robibero on 07/27/2009
Category: Appreciation, Assessment
Film critics have long been held as the great be all end all voices of the entertainment space. Their words were sacred within the entertainment world and so powerful that they were able to make or break a product. But things have changed drastically ever since the golden age of Hollywood. The growing ability to instantly communicate with others quickly and effectively have left many critics on edge, especially film critics. People are going to Twitter than reading a film review in the New York Times. The rise of the "word of mouth" factor is a growing determinant for people, but is also undermining MORE »
How Gracefully Does our Media-Based Art Age?
By Nickolas Weingartner on 07/09/2009
Category: Access, Appreciation, Assessment
As we waltz our way into the ever-present future, it may be helpful to ask ourselves if the work that we leave in our wake will pass the test of time. With new 'masterpieces' arriving every few years, one has to think how long these pieces of art will hold up. MORE »
The Role of Docu-series Within Reality Television
By Doria Montfort on 07/03/2009
Category: Appreciation
Despite the overwhelming popularity of the genre, it is a general consensus that "reality" television is amongst the least satiating of programming available. It could be considered to be the nicotine of television, relying on marketing to lure audiences until they become trapped by the show's addictive qualities. Everyone claims to be immune until they are caught sneaking an episode of "Daisy of Love" in shame and secrecy. MORE »
Iran's Twitter Revolution
By Michelle Giametta on 06/29/2009
Category: Appreciation, Awareness
In a recent Daily News article Helen Kennedy reports that, "The [Iran] regime is under threat after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a suspiciously huge landslide in the June 12 election, sparking accusations of vote rigging and days of mass protests." Since the election the people of Iran have been vehemently protesting and demanding a recount. MORE »
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By Nickolas Weingartner on 06/18/2009
Category: Appreciation, Assessment, Awareness
Last February at the Grammys, indie rock outfit Death Cab for Cutie sported blue ribbons in order to "raise awareness of auto-tune". This was probably the first time that the ribbon method has been used to raise awareness about anything other than disease (discount the "bringing our soldiers home" ribbons which don't seem to work). MORE »
War of Words: TV Feuds
By Eric Ivanov on 06/03/2009
Category: Appreciation
It seems like everyone is at each other's throats these days. People are on camera suing anything that walks, networks are taking potshots at their rivals, and TV personalities are pointing fingers and calling each other names. Not what I would call educated viewing, but it's what we have. Do TV feuds serve a purpose? Are they good for the viewer, or is it just good old fashion American television? MORE »
Media to the Rescue
By Michelle Giametta on 05/31/2009
Category: Appreciation, Awareness
Thirty years ago on May 25, 1979 a little boy named Etan Patz went missing. To me and to most of my generation the name Etan Patz means nothing even though his disappearance profoundly affected our generation. Six year old Etan Patz begged his parents for permission to walk by himself to his bus stop. If you ask anyone in their 20's about their childhood, you will get the usual description of playdates, supervised playtime, organized activities and an overabundant amount of warnings about strangers. But, if you ask people in their mid-thirties, you would get an entirely different recollection MORE »
IFC Media Project/Make Media Matter Chicago Event
By William Weinand on 05/22/2009
Category: Action, Appreciation, Awareness
On Thursday, May 21st 2009, IFC brought together one of the country's top investigative reporters with Chicago's media leaders to delve into the sustainability and future of journalism in the Windy City. In a rare event, the top editors of both the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times appeared together to discuss what lies ahead for the two bankrupt newspapers. The event took place at the Newbury Library in downtown Chicago. MORE »
Are Journalism Schools Only Good for Ethics?
By Paul Mihailidis on 05/14/2009
Category: Appreciation
In the second episode of the IFC Media Project, Season Two, host Gideon Yago begins his narration in front of the famed Columbia University Journalism School. Within his first few sentences, Yago insightfully notes that anyone with a phone is a photojournalist and that a new blog is created ever nano-second (facetious for sure...). Such observations are used to hint at the current state of journalism education, which Yago calls essentially useless but for it's goal to teach the future journalists of an information age about ethics and accuracy in reporting. MORE »
Lost Voices in the Multiplex
By Noah Redfield on 05/11/2009
Category: Appreciation
In the late 1960s, Hollywood's old studio system collapsed and opened the floodgates for a tsunami of bold and visionary American filmmakers. It was throughout the 1970s when the names Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, and Robert Altman were etched into the history books of cinema. Eventually the floodgates were closed after a string of box-office flops and Hollywood was snatched up by a handful of corporations who interpret the word "risk" much like a monk when somebody utters the phrase, "Jesus fucking Christ!" MORE »
Are Books a Thing of the Past?
By Eric Ivanov on 05/08/2009
Category: Appreciation
From Project Gutenberg to Google's new effort to digitize all printed books, sophomore Eric Ivanov asks if the digitization of books is changing the way we read. Are youth still comforted by physical texts, or will we all soon be cozying up to the fire with our iPods and Kindles until the batteries run out... MORE »
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