News 2011-2012 Academic Year
German Doctoral Student, Journalist, Spends Month as Visiting Scholar
Laura Schneider, a doctoral student from the University of Hamburg, completed a four-week visit to the Cox International Center at the University of Georgia in late April where she worked on her dissertation research and on a collaborative research project on discrepancies in press freedom indicators.
Cox Center Director Joins Roundtable in New York on Future of Journalism Education
Dr. Lee B. Becker, director of the Cox International Center at the University of Georgia, was an invited participant at Columbia University in New York in April for a round-table discussion of the future of professional master's level education in journalism.
Austrian Journalist Learns about U.S. South from University of Georgia Visit
Austrian Journalist Thomas Frank spent three days at the University of Georgia in April learning about the media and about political, economic and social issues in the state of Georgia.
Associate Director Assists Romanian Doctoral Program
Dr. Tudor Vlad, the associate director of the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research at the University of Georiga, worked with Romanian faculty in March in Bucharest to redesign the goals and the curriculum of the doctoral program in communication.
Cox Center Researchers Attend Harriman Institute Session At Columbia University
University of Georgia researchers told a gathering of experts at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University in early March that they began their investigation of press freedom indicators as skeptics but became confident in the measures as their work progressed.
Cox Center Associate Director Conducts Training in Moldova Funded by the European Union
Dr. Tudor Vlad, associate director of the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research at the University of Georgia, conducted four workshops in the Republic of Moldova in December after having been selected for the project by the European Union Center for Press Freedom and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
Cox Center Researchers Say Media Assessments Linked to Factors Not Controlled by Media
When individuals evaluate the media in their country, they incorporate their assessments of other institutions, such as the government itself, as well as their own views about political issues, researchers at the University of Georgia and Gallup told a gathering of public opinion researchers in Chicago in November.
Chinese Government Officials Discuss Investigative Journalism in Cox Center Session
Twenty-five Chinese government officials discussed with Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication faculty the tradition of investigative journalism in the United States and the role of media in combating corruption during their visit at the University of Georgia in November.
Ten Russian-Speaking Journalists Visited University of Georgia as Murrow Fellows
Ten journalists from former Soviet countries engaged in an exchange about media in their countries and the U.S. during a pizza lunch with faculty and students at the University of Georgia in early November.
For almost two centuries, the legitimacy of the occupation of a journalist has depended on the printing and distribution of the journalists' products via mass media. Now, the new technologies have changed this situation and are challenging the status of professional journalists.
Research Team Discusses Confidence in the Media at Conference in Amsterdam
Citizens around the world are able to make assessments of the amount of freedom of the countries in which they live, but the level of confidence they have in the media is unrelated to the level of freedom they think the media have.
