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The article presents a debate related to the question "Does journalism education matter? Jannette L. Dates argues that a prepare journalism curricula must be done to promote and upgrade the standards of journalism, the enterprise essential to democracy. Theodore L. Glasser argues in his essay on why journalism matters, that journalism studies will only make a difference if they makes journalism better and help them understand what journalism means. Mitchell Stephens introduces 13 principles that he contends that is needed for practical journalism education. G. Stuart Adam argues for an increased connection between the applied field of journalism and the intellectual culture of the university.

An editorial is presented on Journal of Popular Film and Television founded at the Popular Culture Center at Bowling Green State University in 1971. Topics include one-hundred film journals in English during the ferment of film studies in higher education; and major books of film history and criticism advancing the eclectic philosophy of the journal.

This study explored the effectiveness of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications' diversity standard from 1989 to 2002. Although this standard, known as Standard 12, had the most non-compliances, the findings credit the standard for increasing non-white and female faculty and students in accredited journalism units. The findings also credit the standard for the development of courses that focus on issues pertaining to women and non-whites in journalism. But the study also concluded that stronger enforcement and additional strategies were needed to fully achieve diversity in journalism and mass communication education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WDSU-TV, the first New Orleans broadcast station in the city to hire a Black reporter and thus racially integrate, claimed that its liberal-leaning owner, Edgar Stern Jr., independently decided to hire Bill Rouselle in 1968, rather than being influenced to do so by federal entities and other factors. Through archival materials, newspaper content, federal reports, and exclusive in-depth interviews of journalists of the period, this study argues to the contrary: federal instigation, a decline in the local white population, and competition among New Orleans TV stations preceded integration at WDSU. While WDSU's editorials advocated for integration in the early 1960s, years elapsed before the station integrated. Management hired Rouselle because it wanted to televise an African American face, not Black voices. Nevertheless, local Black television reporters instilled hope and pride in the city's Black community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article features notes on contributors including G. Stuart Adam, professor Emeritus of journalism at Carleton University, Ottawa, and presently the Journalism Scholarship Fellow at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg; Jaci Cole a fellow at the Center for Politics & Journalism, Washington, D.C.; Renita Coleman, assistant professor in the Journalism School at the University of Texas-Austin; Jannette L. Dates, PhD,. past president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and Dean of the John H. Johnson School of Communications at Howard university; Bettye Grable, associate professor at Boston University's School of Public Communication.

The 1960s were a turbulent decade in the United States. Significant social changes, especially in the realm of antiracism and antisexism, were afoot. Concurrently, in an echo to such dramatic social change, popular culture was also evolving. This article examines two relevant films to evaluate their ability to perform a moral critique of gender and racial politics in the 1960s. Alongside an analysis of social and political trends and Supreme Court cases, I compare two critically acclaimed industry films, To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), to better understand cultural and political reforms in the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Asian-Americans are a growth market. Their affluence, high education, and work ethic position them as a model minority. However complimentary that term may seem, it nonetheless represents a stereotype whose prevalence must be documented to examine the intersection of minority status and gender in mass media portrayals. The authors report a content analysis of more than 1300 prime time television advertisement conducted to assess the frequency and nature of Asian-American representation. They found that Asian male and female models are overrepresented in terms of proportion of the population (3.6%), appearing in 8.4% of the commercials. However, Asian models are more likely than members of other minority groups to appear in background roles, and Asian women are rarely depicted in major roles. Further, the findings indicate that portrayals of Asian-Americans put so much emphasis on the work ethic that other aspects of life seldom appear. For example, Asian models are overrepresented in business settings and relationships and underrepresented in home settings and family or social relationships. The findings suggest opportunities for advertisers who depict Asian-Americans in nonstereotypical ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We often imagine black respectability politics as a suffocating hegemon, opposed only by small, usually youthful, groups of artists, intellectuals, and activists. But for more than the last two decades, the most popular syndicated black American radio show, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, has openly dissented from respectability politics—while simultaneously “flying under the radar” of both black and mainstream public sphere attention. This invisibility may be due to the show’s commercial status and mixed format—but most importantly, because of its low-status medium, radio, combined with the “unsexy” nature of its huge audience: middle aged and definitely working class. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC) has developed twelve professional values and competencies that all students in accredited programs must demonstrate before graduation. This study asked Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC) program administrators which competencies were most emphasized in their current programs and which were most important for students graduating in 2020. Findings revealed that the core competencies of “writing,” “thinking,” and “technology” were seen as being most emphasized currently and most important in the future. The authors use these findings to suggest that a tiered assessment system might be more appropriate to accommodate differences in program emphasis. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As communications students learn to tell stories, the curriculum should teach them to cover diverse groups accurately. Scholars have studied coverage of diversity in gender, nationality, ethnicity, and race. One area that has seen less attention is economic diversity, in particular, coverage of the poor. This paper examines how service-learning might affect students’ ideas about poor people and about communicators’ responsibility to tell their stories accurately. Students who encountered the poor directly through service-learning changed their attitudes about the poor and the causes of poverty. They also expressed concern about the need for fair and accurate representation of poor people. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An essay is presented on the role of African American disc jockey Vernon Lloyd Winslow, also known as Dr. Daddy-O, in racially integrating radio in New Orleans, Louisiana between 1948 and 1950. It comments on the introduction of black culture into radio broadcasting. The author considers Winslow's time at the radio station WJMR, where he coached white disc jockey Duke Thiele to speak with a black dialect, and his work with the Fitzgerald Advertising Agency on the radio station WWEZ.

Several studies have investigated various differences between journalism and mass communication programs accredited and unaccredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism & Mass Communications (ACEJMC), but none discovered evidence that accredited programs are strongly or clearly superior in major ways to unaccredited programs. In fact, studies generally find many more similarities than differences. A review of literature comparing accredited and unaccredited J&MC programs seems to suggest that ACEJMC accreditation is a credential whose reputation exceeds its actual benefit. Although the idea of a formal process by which programs can be evaluated and "certified" as high quality is well intentioned, operationalization of that idea has proved to be difficult. Some accreditation standards ACEJMC has deemed most important (diversity and liberal arts curriculum) have resulted in controversial chapters in accreditation's history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article assesses the status of diversity education in 2008-2009 in both accredited and non-accredited journalism and mass communication programs in U.S. colleges and universities. Using survey responses from 105 academic programs, findings support earlier studies that found the number of special courses on media diversity is increasing steadily. Findings also identify a preference for integrating diversity content across the curriculum. Among factors pushing these improvements are accreditation standards and an increasing multicultural environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

America's post-riot era was a time of unfulfilled expectations for those concerned with newsroom staffing. The Kerner Commission said blacks should be trained, hired, and promoted in mainstream media, yet few news managers moved beyond tokenism to diversify what had been a white domain. In 1968, broadcaster Fred W. Friendly crafted a summer program at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism that would graduate 223 minority trainees over seven years. Some became reporters, news anchors, media executives, and producers, although many left journalism for other careers. In a study more than thirty years after the project closed, participants discussed what they saw in newsrooms during this era of social change, and their recollections reflect the idealism that fueled this early effort in media hiring reform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The lives of African American men with prostate cancer are greatly influenced by the information available to them, some of which is accessed on the Internet. Research indicates that the Internet can enhance consumer health knowledge but has not reached socioeconomic groups at highest risk for health disparities, such as African American men with prostate cancer. In this study, focus groups were used to explore the perceptions and uses of the Internet as a patient education tool among 39 African American men aged 39 years and older with diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. Nineteen (49%) participants reported using the Internet, 15 (38%) reported no use but indicated it was used on their behalf, and 5 (13%) reported no use and no use on their behalf. The findings revealed varying degrees of Internet use for information and social support. Prostate cancer diagnosis, poor patient—doctor communications, and accessibility influenced Internet use. Accessibility related more to lack of ease and familiarity with Internet use than lack of computer access. With training and awareness, the Internet has potential as a patient education tool among African American men with prostate cancer. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

John Peel first worked in radio in the United States and it is an intriguing supposition that some of what he learned there contributed to his unique success on the British airwaves 1967–2004. This article reports the available information about Peel's radio experiences in the United States, provides additional context, evaluates some of the contradictory claims and reports on new interviews with US radio veterans who worked with him. Peel's experience in American radio and some of the prior commentary on that is discussed in terms of three contextual issues: Peel's Englishness at the time of the British Invasion in American pop music; race in American music and radio; and the unique status in the American radio industry of the stations where Peel worked. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines how nineteenth-century American journalism used history. Based primarily on almost 2,000 magazine article titles, the authors found a marked increase in historical referents by 1900 Primarily used for context and placement, historical references often noted the country's origins, leaders and wars, particularly the Civil War. By connecting the present to the past, journalists highlighted an American story worth remembering during a time of nation-building, increased magazine circulation, and rise on feature stories. References to past people, events and institutions reiterated a particular national history, not only to those long settled, but also to new immigrants. Journalistic textual silences were the histories of most women, African Americans, Native Americans and immigrants. This study found historical continuity in contrast to Lipsitz and a repeated national institutional core as opposed to Wiebe. It reinforced other memory studies about contemporary usefulness of The past. and agrees with Higham's contention that the century's journalistic reports created the initial awareness of the nation's history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to raise questions about historiographical practice, challenge the reliance on apparently stable discourses of nation and race within contemporary historiography, and expand understanding of the potential and multiple sites of influence in which television operated during its early years as a popular medium. Drawing on principles articulated by Foucault and de Certeau about the production and generation of knowledge, the article critiques previous historical examinations of Amos'n' Andy for overlooking salient features of the television program's cultural and industrial context, as well as its syndication run from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Using information about the syndication of Amos'n' Andy gleaned principally from entertainment and advertising trade journals, the article points out how a more thorough understanding of the local, regional, and international context and of industrial practices may prove essential for recognizing possibilities about the patterns and circulation of cultural beliefs and historiographical norms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., revealed the depths of racial intolerance in America, which charged many blacks with a new sense of responsibility, including those who worked in media arts. This interview article chronicles the career of television and film director Stan Lathan, from his early experiences on Say Brother (WGBH), Sesame Street (Children's Television Workshop), Soul, and Black Journal (Channel Thirteen in New York); his entrée into network television on Sanford & Son, followed by a host of other network series; and leading to his role as a partner in Simmons/Lathan Media Group, which strives to reach underserved audiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]