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Provides information gathered from a survey of faculty and administrators on attitudes toward technology. Discusses faculty stress and faculty adaptation to technology. Notes strong majorities agree that graduates need to learn the latest technologies, and that journalism faculty need to be able to teach them. Concludes that professors are feeling more stress than their chairs think they are. (PM)

Contends that teaching journalism and mass communication has become a technology-intensive occupation. Reports on results of a national study of the use of technology in journalism and mass communication programs. Examines how technology-induced stress affects two aspects of work-life quality: job satisfaction and work-related exhaustion. (PM)

A national study involving 183 dailies found that organizational goals and ownership characteristics were the most significant influences on the degree to which a newspaper identified content that readers said they wanted and needed., It wasn't easy to like Al Neuharth, the former chief executive of the Gannett Co., Inc., and many of his peers in the media industries didn't. (1) Neuharth was ostentatious, [...]

Media coverage of suicide can play a pivotal role in raising public awareness of an important public health issue. But research suggests that reporting on suicide can potentially trigger suicidal behavior in vulnerable individuals. To encourage the responsible reporting of suicide as a public health issue, media recommendations have been developed. Based on interviews with 50 US journalists, this study explores journalists' awareness of and attitudes toward suicide reporting risks and US media recommendations. Through the lens of suicide news reporting, this is a study examining how journalists view their professional roles and sense of social responsibility when reporting on issues, like suicide, with potential public health consequences. We find that while the journalists interviewed want to cover suicide responsibly, and as a public health issue, they often deviate from recommendations. In many cases, professional conventions and routines conflict with or hinder guideline compliance. Moreover, many journalists deliberately disregard suicide reporting guidelines because they clash with their professional values and perceived responsibility of serving the public via truth-telling and full disclosure of information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technology has become source of stress in the work lives of people teaching journalism because, teaching journalism and mass communication has become a technology- intensive occupation. A survey conducted in this context found that for two out of three professors across variety of disciplines faced stress due to keeping up with technology at their workplaces.

A study was conducted to know the impact of faculty stress and adaptation to technology by faculty members and administrators due to technological change on journalism education. The study includes the stress caused due to efforts taken by the journalism and mass communication educators in trying to keep up with the information technology and the levels of stress in journalism faculty.

Unlike many other unnatural deaths, suicides are occurrences that journalists often hesitate to cover. "Our policy is not to write about suicides," many journalists say. Except that often they do. This article, based on interviews with 50 US journalists, examines the rationales that journalists invoke as they decide whether to cover a suicide. This can be a high-risk decision because of the potential for suicide contagion and copycat effects. We conclude that in making a decision to cover a suicide, journalists go through a process of routinizing what, at the outset, they had considered an exceptional situation. This routinization provides a means to rationalize covering a death that they often say they would prefer to ignore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the relationship of journalistic prizes to prestige and job satisfaction in the U.S. Perceptions of journalists on the functions of prizes; Value of professional awards to journalists; Association between prizes and prestige.