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Less than a quarter of Hawaiʻi high schools offer any type of journalism program or training. To provide a valuable opportunity for those talented students and spark more interest in journalism education across the state, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa journalism program in the School of Communications co-hosted the virtual Hawaiʻi High School Journalism Awards with the Hawaiʻi Publishers Association and Honolulu Star-Advertiser on April 15. Twelve high school programs submitted entrie...

This is personal: Students, faculty speak out on proposed consolidation which would impact 6 state universities in Pennsylvania Consolidation has been marketed as a cost-saving measure. If one or more universities struggles financially, the system struggles, according to PASSHE. Author: Grace Griffaton (FOX43) Updated: 6:58 PM EDT March 17, 2021 HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education or PASSHE is considering a consolidation of six s...

Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame to induct 7 members Seven outstanding journalists will be inducted into the 2021 class of the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.   This year’s inductees have made major, sustained contributions in print, broadcast and online media to news, sports, business, automotive and cultural journalism. They include:   Joanne Gerstner, multiplatform sportswriter, educator, scholar, mentor and author Tom Henderson, reporter of sports, science and tech, venture capital a...

The DePaulia Cailey Gleeson, News Editor|February 15, 2021 NABJ is a nonprofit organization advocating for Black journalists and media professionals nationally and worldwide.  The chapter — tentatively titled the DePaul University Association of Black Journalists — will be led by adjunct faculty member Judith McCray. “NABJ is open to not just African American students, but Latinx students and biracial students,” McCray said. “It is not limited to students in journalism or communicati...

Equal Opportunity and Nondiscrimination at Princeton University: Princeton University believes that commitment to principles of fairness and respect for all is favorable to the free and open exchange of ideas, and the University seeks to reach out as widely as possible in order to attract the ablest individuals as students, faculty, and staff. In applying this policy, the University is committed to nondiscrimination on the basis of personal beliefs or characteristics such as political views, re...

Thanos Dimadis: "The new boards of the AFC-USA symbolize diversity with a strong representation of different countries, ethnicities, and women." Share Article The Association of Foreign Press Correspondents (AFC-USA) held elections for new board members to lead the organization in 2021-2022. Past News ReleasesRSS NEW YORK (PRWEB) January 15, 2021 The Association and the Club of Foreign Press Correspondents in the United States (Fo...

MERCENARIES HAD ROLE IN IRIAN JAYA Submitted by admin on Wed, 07/14/1999 - 00:00 By Peter Cronau SYDNEY, Australia (July 13, 1999 - Bushfire Media/Pasifik Nius/Niuswire)---The former CEO of the South African mercenary group, Executive Outcomes, has revealed that his company provided training and operational advice to the Indonesian special forces in an operation to rescue hostages held in West Papua (Irian Jaya) in 1996. Nick van den Bergh informed the writer that he led a team of fiv...

WHY A FIJI WOMAN STOLE A BABY Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/14/2000 - 00:00 By Sanawaka Inoke SUVA, Fiji Islands (April 13, 2000 – Fiji’s Daily Post/Pasifik Nius/Niuswire)---A Nausori woman who stole a newborn baby from Fijis main hospital on Monday [has told a court] she was under pressure from her husbands family to have a child. Druma Tavoinayako, 21, pleaded guilty to stealing the baby girl from the Colonial War Memorial Hospital before Magistrate Makereta Waqavonovono in Suva...

BODY BLOW TO TERTIARY EDUCATION IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA Submitted by admin on Fri, 01/29/1999 - 00:00 THE NATIONAL Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea EDITORIAL January 27, 1999 By the end of this year, the University of Papua New Guinea will not be the institution it has been and its intellectual capital will be much reduced. Those words are taken from a staff circular issued by the university’s embattled Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Rodney Hills. They refer to the university councils decision to...

THE VOICE OF FIJI’S CHURCHES Submitted by admin on Thu, 06/15/2000 - 00:00 By David Robie © USP Journalism Programme SUVA, Fiji Islands (June 14, 2000 – USP Journalism Programme/Pasifik Nius/Niuswire)---Fijis churches have made belated appeals this week for their parishioners to refuse support for rebel leader George Speights insurrection and for the 31 hostages to be freed. But leaders of the countrys most influential church, the Methodist Church, have given mixed messages by...