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Félix Gutiérrez, a nationally acclaimed expert in social media and racial diversity and professor of journalism and communication at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, visits the University of Minnesota on Sept.

"The usual pattern at this point would be for the rebel coalition, now that the prize that helped unify their efforts has been won, to divide and start fighting for control of it," says political scientist James Fearon.

The public sees pokies as part of the problem, and government regulation as part of the solution, according to the latest ANUpoll, released today.

Cover Story — July / August 2011 The Future of Public Television Can Public Television News Step Up? By The Editors T elevision has long been our most popular news medium, the format that unites us and brings the world to our living rooms each night.

20 years after the end of the Soviet Union what are the prospects for conflict resolution in the USSR successor states?

Streamlining union certification process will reduce worker harassment, says study Federal regulators need to streamline the process for unionization. By the time a petition for collective bargaining representation is filed, serious anti-union intimidation is in full swing, according to a new study by researchers at Cornell and Columbia universities.

Many Americans and Australians think the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have not been worth the cost and are not helping to win the war on terrorism, according to new research by the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

Vom 5. bis zum 11. Juni 2011 findet in Weimar erstmals die Weimar-Princeton Summer School for Media-Studies statt.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Many Americans changed their perceptions of discrimination and racism after Barack Obama became the nation's first black president.

Where does journalism fit in a world of 5 billion cell phones and 600 million Facebook users? Stanford gathering explores the possibilities A power lineup of media types - both new media and old - converge on Stanford to sort things out.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. World War II had just ended. Radio still ruled the airwaves. And some of the medium's brightest talents, among them Norman Corwin and Edward R. Murrow, set out to use the power of radio for postwar idealistic ends.

The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism A new report by Bill Grueskin, Ava Seave and Lucas Graves Can digital journalism be profitable?

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—University of Michigan faculty are available to discuss the implications of the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, killed by U.S. forces nearly a decade after orchestrating terror attacks on the United States.

Increased use of the Internet is leading to a more politically engaged and socially inclusive society, according to the latest ANUpoll.

Detail of 1819 map of Manhattan by cartographer and surveyor John Randel Jr.

Actor and second-generation celebrity Jaden Smith recently made headlines with a decision to model a womenswear collection for a major designer.

Freed Times journalists reflect upon their ordeal in Libya April 1, 2011 Despite being kidnapped and beaten , the four New York Times foreign correspondents who were detained in Libya last month have not lost their desire to cover conflict.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Since 2003, the antiwar movement in the United States has had much to protest with Americans fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and now Libya, but the movement—which has dropped off sharply the past two years—may be more anti-Republican than antiwar, says a University of Michigan researcher.

Watch a video about the Committee to Protect Journalists and Columbia's acquisition of its archives.

Please join the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Columbia University in celebrating CPJ's 30 years of defending press freedom worldwide.

The word "democracy" needs a clearer definition to deal with the events in Egypt, says Middle East historian Joel Beinin.

Policy 07 Feb 11 The first of a new series of annual lectures to recognise Sir David Butler of Nuffield College, Oxford, will take place tonight.

PA37/11 Mobile phones are set to dramatically shake up the global news industry, as cellphones increasingly become a basic consumer essential and users upgrade their handsets with greater frequency.

In July 1916, during a summer heatwave, a series of shark attacks along the coast of New Jersey left four people dead and another seriously injured.

With two small children at home, Susan Webb Yackee goes through a lot of peanut butter. But although many Americans don't think much about what's in their peanut butter, Yackee is one of few who knows that the childhood favorite must contain at least 90 percent peanuts, as well as how that standard was established.

Economic pressures and digital technology are undermining the role of the foreign correspondent, according to a new Oxford University study.

The amount of help given by Scotland to one of the world's poorest countries has been revealed by University research.

PA 329/10 An article written by a University of Nottingham graduate about the struggles of young disabled people in Sierra Leone and Leonard Cheshire Disability's Young Voices project won the amateur journalist category in this year's Guardian International Development Journalism Competition.

Business 22 Nov 10 The internet is often held up as the main reason for declining newspaper sales and dwindling revenues.

Columbia, long renowned for its journalism education, is preparing the next generation of journalists for the challenges of reporting in an increasingly connected world.

In the wake of last week's midterm elections, political science professor Dorian T. Warren answered questions about how a new balance of power will impact Congress and the Obama administration. Professor Dorian Warren talks about the Nov. 2 elections and what the results mean for the current administration.

The Republican shift in Congress will make it more difficult for President Obama to deal with the GOP, but the switch to minority status could benefit the president by strengthening his hand with Dem

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