Lucinda Davenport

Michigan State University | MSU · School of Journalism

Eight journalism educational programs outside the United States are certified by the U.S.-based Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. A survey of journalism undergraduate program directors in the United States indicated that many respondents see opportunities for expanding this voluntary curriculum evaluation and e...

Although most higher education programs include a capstone course to culminate the student experience, program directors disagree on what the experience should look like. Updating previous research, this study examined the main goals, teaching methods, and subject areas covered in journalism and mass communication capstone courses. It also compared...

Accreditation is a topic that is sure to spark lively debates among faculty of journalism programs. And it has for years. Several prominent journalism programs in the United States recently let their accreditation status lapse from the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC)—leading to renewed public debate a...

Accreditation is among various outside influences when developing an ideal journalism curriculum. The value of journalism accreditation standards for undergraduate programs has been studied and is still debated. This study discovers views of opinion leaders in U.S. journalism programs, as surveyed program directors give reasons for being accredited...

To carry out their mission of preparing students to be successful journalism professionals, educators make important decisions on the core curriculum: the common courses that all journalism students must take to graduate, no matter their area of emphasis or academic constraints. This national study of U.S. journalism program directors shows they ag...

A foremost issue in international communication planning is the cultural understanding of a target audience. The body of literature for studies of leisure—a growing industry worldwide—is mostly from Western viewpoints, despite an increasing awareness of its value from Eastern perspectives. Even the notion of “leisure” itself is Western-based. This...

This study systematically investigates the practices and policies of archiving and accessing images, now that most newspapers have gone digital. Results can be applied to other organizations that archive images. Findings from the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) newspaper photographers show that policies and practices are in disarray...

This study is the first to focus on gender discrimination of women journalists working in Korean newspapers. It tries to identify the extent and types of discrimination, and to identify factors associated with it. Virtually all respondents experienced gender discrimination and felt it is prevalent in the industry. In particular, women experienced d...

While digital cameras are used on most assignments and more images are shot, a lower proportion of those images are archived compared to images shot with film cameras in years past.

This analysis of 89 U.S. daily newspaper Web sites on Sept. 11, 2001, shows that 65 percent of the home pages in the late morning and 38 percent in the late afternoon said nothing about the World Trade Center bombings. By late afternoon only 43 percent of the home pages had at least one photo or video of the 9/11 attacks.

Replicates and updates the only other research that examined the adoption of computer-assisted reporting instruction in journalism schools quantitatively. Compares the different computerized sources being used in newsrooms and classrooms, and elicits the reasons that these sources are being used in each environment. Concludes many programs are catc...

This survey of 48 Michigan daily newspapers finds that 96 percent now use one or more computerized sources to obtain information for news stories. The Internet is the most frequently used source.

A state-wide survey of daily newspapers finds 80 percent are using electronic information sources, with all using electronic morgues and most using two or more electronic sources. © 1996, © 1996 Newspaper and Online News Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

This study examines newspaper competition on a national level using the umbrella model and the county as the geographic market. Although daily newspaper markets showed higher concentration and lower competition than other U.S. industries, these markets were less concentrated and had a greater potential for competition in 1983 and 1988 than suggeste...

This study reports results of a large-scale experiment in which subjects were exposed to news stories presented by one of four media. The goal was to provide both baseline data and a reasonably definitive answer as to the relative level of recall resulting from presentations by newspapers, computer screen, television and radio while controlling for...

Examines the International Women's Decade conferences held in 1975, 1980, and 1985. Indicates that amount of coverage increased substantially at the last conference, newspaper editors tended to place stories in lifestyle section rather than in the hard news section, the greatly expanded 1985 coverage was conflict-oriented, and the term "feminist" w...

Increasing numbers of news organizations have formal codes of ethics for their personnel. This paper looks at the content of media ethics codes, how these codes are written and what comprises a news organization's fixed value system. Results show that many written policies were devised in recent years, and a noticeable number of other news organiza...

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