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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's stunning admission that he smoked crack cocaine is making headlines around the world.

PA 345/13 During the 2013 Malaysian election campaign and in the days immediately afterwards, a team of experts at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) kept a close eye on the performance of the country's press.

What might have been, asked historians Fredrik Logevall and David Greenberg at the Cornell Club Oct.

What: Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and Google will participate in a NASA media teleconference to announce their discovery involving the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. The researchers used machine learning, an approach to artificial intelligence. This discovery demonstrates new ways of analyzing Kepler data and has implications for future space missions.

Even as it grew in popularity in the postwar years, relatively few scholars studied television: Full of dismal middlebrow fare, from lightweight sitcoms to hokey soap operas, it was seen as far less worthy of critical appraisal than film.

Expert speakers debate war and peacebuilding in journalism A panel of expert speakers came together in London last night to discuss how the media depicts stories of war and peace, at an event organis

UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden is helping provide academic research to a bipartisan presidential commission looking into how to improve federal elections.

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Columbia Journalism School, founded a century ago to train generations of reporters, was only 7 years old when Pittsburgh's KDKA made the first broadcast by a licensed radio station.

Anne Sebba: The Rise of the Woman Reporter 'For most of history, Anonymous was a woman', said one of King's College London's most revered alumnae, Virginia Woolf.

EXPERTS ADVISORY ANN ARBOR-As the extradition case involving National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden continues to become more convoluted, University of Michigan experts are available to share their perspectives.

Sussex undergraduate shortlisted in national journalism competition An International Development student from the University of Sussex has made it through to the finals of a national journalism competition, organised by the Guardian .

Although the world is safer today than it's ever been, the United States still faces major challenges in international relations, professors told alumni at the "America and the World" panel discussion June 7 during Reunion 2013.

The first degree in the UK to focus on inter-American and Latin/North American global relations has been launched by the UCL Institute of the Americas.

An embattled mayor is beset by questions about a video allegedly showing him smoking crack cocaine.

King's Russia Institute expands with three new research staff The King's Russia Institute is delighted to announce the appointment of three new senior lecturer Dr Marc Berenson, Dr Gulnaz Sharafutdin

Over the course of a six-year career designing online banking software for the British financial firm HSBC, Rashmi Raman would often find herself trolling the Columbia Journalism School website and dreaming of the possibilities.

ANN ARBOR-The Knight-Wallace Fellows program at the University of Michigan has named 12 American and eight international journalists for the academic year 2013-2014.

The role of technology in the Arab Spring and the Boston bombings, repression in North Korea, and privacy in the Internet age were just some of the topics Eric Schmidt, executive chairman and former

Australia's newest independent online news and analysis website, The Citizen, has been launched by the University of Melbourne's Centre for Advancing Journalism.

PA 96/13 The University of Nottingham has joined forces with the Universities of Manchester and Oxford to form a consortium which will study long-term political change in British politics.

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today announced his appointment of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll as the new Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism , effective July 1, 2013.

ANN ARBOR-President Obama is likely to discuss immigration, climate change, the economy and other issues during Tuesday's annual State of the Union address.

Stanford Report, February 8, 2013 Press was the managing director of the Professional Journalism Fellowships and the Knight Fellowships Program at Stanford and served as founding editor of the alumni newspaper, The Stanford Observer .

Michael Traugott ANN ARBOR-University of Michigan Michael Traugott, a nationally recognized expert in political communication and polls, is assisting the Gallup Organization with reviewing its survey methodology used in political polling.

James Wellman , associate professor of American religion in the Jackson School of International Studies, is the author of the book " Rob Bell and a New American Christianity.

A new hub for community journalism in Wales will help steer the field towards a sustainable and innovative future, paving the way for the creation of jobs and informing the development of digital journalism.

UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations has launched a new program to move discussions of pressing global challenges beyond the classroom and into the writers' rooms of TV shows, films, video games and more. Working with the United Nations and other groups, the new Burkle Global Impact Initiative will encourage content creators to incorporate more storylines about global issues into their work, such as those in the movie "Hotel Rwanda," with its depiction of the Rwandan genocide, or TV shows like "Ugly Betty," which featured an episode about how the UN Foundation fights malaria.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Just as the Civil War helped reshape the U.S. militarily, new technologies and a growing demand for information during the war influenced the nation's press, according to a Penn State researcher.

Highlighting the deep interest in the politics, society and history of the Caucasus at the University of Birmingham and the strong links between the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREE

"Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present," co-authored by Emily Bell , Columbia Journalism professor and director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism; Clay Shirky , NYU professor; and C.W. Anderson , assistant professor, College of Staten Island (CUNY), provides recommendations for how news organizations can survive and thrive in the digital landscape.

The University of Sheffield's Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) and the BBC College of Journalism are today (22 November 2012) urging the United Nations (UN) to address the rising trend of violence against media workers and protect journalists' safety. Supported by more than 40 leading international editors and journalists, representing news organisations around the world, CFOM will present a statement urging the UN and its member states to take stronger action to stop the killing of journalists and other media workers and safeguard the future of free independent media.

Stanford Report, November 19, 2012 Political science Simon Jackman's Pollster blog used over 1,200 polls to call the election with remarkable precision.

ANN ARBOR-Democrats and Republicans may find it increasingly challenging to bridge the partisan divide when their memberships in political organizations remain polarized.

ANN ARBOR-This might not be a "post-racial" era after all. New research indicates that racial attitudes toward African-Americans have worsened since the election of President Barack Obama. Many people described America as accepting of all races after Obama was voted as the country's first black president in 2008.

You may know whether you prefer Barack Obama's policies or Mitt Romney's way of thinking, but what about the ideas of Johnson, Goode or Stein?

Dean Nicholas Lemann to step down after 10-year term Columbia University announced today that Dean Nicholas Lemann will step down at the end of June, 2013, at the conclusion of the school's centennial year, after a 10-year term.

With the presidential election heating up, more Americans have been tuning into their favorite news broadcast for the most up-to-date reporting from the campaign trail.

Serendipity - a mysterious phenomenon often thought of as a 'happy accident' - is being investigated by a team of UCL researchers in order to design interactive systems that harness its power. By collecting and analysing people's 'serendipity stories', researchers at UCL Interaction Centre and their partners hope to design an interactive system that makes us more prepared for recognising serendipity when it happens and, crucially, supports us in acting on it.

PHILADELPHIA - Meredith Broussard , a lecturer in the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania , has been selected to be a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program Fellow.

Looking at senators' portrayals of themselves, Stanford political scientist Justin Grimmer found two basic strategies: More extreme candidates talk policy. More moderate candidates talk pork. Where are all the moderate voices? In a country that's supposed to be more or less centrist in its views, the moderates' relative absence from the national political conversation is surprising.

Mark Hansen named East Coast director of Brown Institute New York, NY — Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and Stanford University's School of Engineering today announced that

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-The rhetoric is relentless: America is a place of unparalleled opportunity, where hard work and determination can propel a child out of humble beginnings into the White House, or at least a mansion on a hill.

The First World War is one of the most widely covered topics in further and higher education and schools, but according to a new JISC report, little is known about what aspects of the War are being t