Ralph Izard

Louisiana State University | LSU · Manship School of Mass Communication

This study seeks to understand how U.S. journalism and communication programs, both ac- credited and non-accredited, infuse diversity content across the curriculum, particularly in non-diversity courses. By utilizing interview and document analysis methods, this study gathers information about the practice of infusing diversity content across the c...

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This study measures the significance of factors used by minority students in their selection of universities/colleges. This web survey was conducted mainly on 778 students enrolled in journalism/mass communication courses representing five historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and twelve other universities. Differences were found amo...

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 steadil...

This article investigates journalists’ attitudes regarding the interface between the craft's commitment to detached observation when covering the news and the perhaps equally compelling drive to assist other human beings in need at the scene of a life‐threatening newsworthy incident. Also examined is the journalistic attitude toward the propriety o...

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...

Concludes that the public's negative attitude toward the news media is beginning to mellow. (FL)

In a study to examine journalistic integrity, two recent surveys answered by a combined total of 1,936 American journalists requested responses to questions as well as to specific hypothetical ethical dilemmas. In Survey A (conducted in 1983), questions were structured to provide information on beliefs and/or news media policy in four categories of...