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» Covering War
An ICMPA study analyzed the news coverage of the 2006 Hezbollah-Israel war ranking media, tracking their overall coverage and their changes in coverage over time.

» Media Transparency
An ICMPA study takes a look at the news media and concludes that, like government and corporations, news outlets lack transparency--about what they do and how they do it.

» Covering Pakistan
How did 13 U.S. newspapers cover Pakistan--in the year following 9/11 and five years later.

Gallery

» The War in Lebanon:
The Hot Zone's Kevin Sites talks about the challenges in covering war.

» Pictures from S. Lebanon
A photo essay by Jad Melki.

» Relief groups use new media
A video by Jad Melki.

» Media Literacy: Media Literacy: Paul Mihailidis discusses the importance of media literacy for citizenry & democracy

Latest News

1/10/13 Dr. Susan Moeller Interviewed by TechNewsWorld.com: Schmidt's Visit May Help Open Up North Korea 1/8/13 Numbers Are Never Enough (especially when dealing with Big Data) 11/21/12 New Study: How Photos on Pinterest Predicted the Election 11/12/12 How to Evaluate Bias and the Messages in Photos 11/2/12 New Study: An investigation of the photographic coverage of the 2012 U.S. presidential election & the GOP primaries. UMD news release: Study Highlights The Politics of Photos Study website: PrezPix - Picturing the 2012 Election Study data: pinterest.com/prezpix Article in AJR: Photos of Pinterest Over 8000 photos from 21 online news outlets analyzed 8/28/12 New Study: Global News Sites Poorly Covered the Olympics in Photos 8/15/12 Why We Do It: My Academy List -by Paul Mihailidis, Director, The Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change 8/15/12 New Study: College Students Show Little Interest in Politics This Election Year 8/15/12 Judy Munge (Kenya) interviews Renee Hobbs Oscar Tollast (UK) interviews Renee Hobbs Maya Hariri (Lebanon) interviews Renee Hobbs 8/13/12 SGS President teaches media students how to draw up a non-profit business plan 7/19/12 The 6th Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change 6/26/12 Sacrificing to 'Have It All': Four Extraordinary Women Explain How to Balance Work and Family

FEATURED RESEARCH

Photographic coverage of President Barack Obama remained strongly positive following the first October presidential debate -
according to a new ICMPA study which investigated the photographic coverage of the 2012 U.S. presidential election & the GOP primaries.

- UMD news release from 111/2/12
- Study website
- Study data at pinterest.com/prezpix
- Article in AJR

» The World Unplugged

College students around the world are strikingly similar in how they use media – and how ‘addicted’ they are to it, according to a new global study of university students by the International Center for Media & the Public Affairs (ICMPA) in partnership with the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change.

» A Day Without Media

What is it like to give up your cell phone, iPod, television, car radio, magazines, newspapers and computer for one day?

Can you even do it?

A 2010 ICMPA study found that most US college students are not just unwilling, but functionally unable to be without their media links to the world.

Check out what the students experienced when they went unplugged for 24 hours

Here is what the Washington Post, the NY Times, MSNBC, and the Globe & Mail are saying about the study.

The Salzburg Academy
on Media & Global Change

» The Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change held its 6th annual session this summer. Read about the students and faculty from five continents who attended

Are you an interested student
or university?
Join the Salzburg Academy class of 2013

Contact the director now!

ICMPA is proud to be the co-founder
of the Salzburg Academy

In the News
» VISIT the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change's web site and media literacy curriculum, including lesson plans, and results of international research. Come see what students in over 100 countries are using in their classrooms.
» WATCH ICMPA's Media Education Director Paul Mihailidis discuss Global News Literacy on CSPAN, part of a round table hosted by the National Endowment for Democracy.
» RECOGNITION: ICMPA director Dr. Susan Moeller is a Carnegie Scholar, with the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Moeller has also been recognized as a Teacher of the Year by the UMD System Board of Regents.
» ICMPA and the Salzburg Academy's global media literacy curriculum was highlighted in a CIMA (National Endowment for Democracy) report (pdf).
» Paul Mihailidis and Matthew Sheehan write about the challenges facing deans of journalism programs. Read about it in the American Journalism Review.
» At this year's National Media Conference in St. Louis, Paul Mihailidis gave a presentation on the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change. 'Youth Media Reporter.' covered the media literacy initiative.
» ICMPA research director Jad Melki was on the team that won a Webby award for the coverage of the Hezbollah-Israel war. Melki helped Kevin Sites cover the war from South Lebanon.

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