How much do American journalism and mass communication teachers—lecturers, professors, etc—make per annum? The records of Arizona State University have been made public, and the numbers are truly astounding. Dean Christopher Callahan takes home $191,650 every year, Prof Stephen Keith Doig $ 114,501. Multiply by 40 to get a snapshot of why journalism education in India is…
Daily Archives: 3 July 2007
Freedom of press belongs to those who iron one
The New Yorker‘s Joe Liebling it was who said famously that the freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. A poor washerman in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand has shown that the freedom of the press can also belong to those to run one. Gauri Shankar Rajak is a presswala in…
How the International Herald Tribune is made
A 35-minute YouTube video of how the International Herald Tribune, now owned by The New York Times, published from Paris and printed from nearly two dozen centres, including Hyderabad, is put together. Link courtesy Loic Le Meur
All hail the unsung fixers of modern journalism
After 12 years on the road in dozens of countries on five continents, and after over 1,000 bylines in The New York Times and International Herald Tribune hammered out on six laptops, Thomas Crampton has bid goodbye to journalism as we know it, and opted for a career as a new media entrepreneur. “I live…
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