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The annual academic publication Points of Entry: Cross-Currents in Storytelling, which had a narrative journalism focus, has merged with the publication DoubleTake to form the journal DoubleTake / Points of Entry. This new publication will continue to focus on documenting contemporary life through narrative reporting and photography as well as essays, fiction and poetry.
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The Stanley Foundation has dedicated a section of the Foundation’s website to discussion of the rise of open pan-Arab media and its impact on the world. The section is titled Security in an Era of Open Arab Media, and includes articles, interviews, policy analysis and photographs, as well as featuring the one-hour public radio [...]

Podcasting is now another communication and instructional tool available at Alden Library. The podcasts, which can be played on computers using QuickTime or downloaded to iPods or mp3 players, are designed to help students learn more about the library through a self-guided podcast audio tour or student-perspective tour, or to learn more about using [...]

This month’s new Journalism and Telecommunications titles in Alden Library:

PN5474 .C53 2005.
Changing the fourth estate : essays on South African journalism.
Cape Town, South Africa : HSRC Press, 2005.
DS79.76 .T28 2006x.
Tatham, Steve.
Losing Arab hearts and minds : the coalition, Al-Jazeera and Muslim public opinion.
London : Hurst & Co, 2006.
PN4784.O62 K66 2006.
Kolodzy, Janet, 1955-
Convergence journalism : [...]