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Reviving the J-School
For as long as doomsayers have predicted the decline of civic-minded reportage as we know it, reformers have sought to draft a rewrite of the institutions that train many undergraduate and graduate students pursuing a career in journalism. Criticisms of journalism schools have ranged from questioning whether the institutions are necessary in the first place (since many journalists, and most senior ones, don’t have journalism degrees) to debating the merits of teaching practical skills versus theory and whether curriculums should emphasize broad knowledge or specialization in individual fields. All of those issues, and others, came to light on Wednesday at a meeting of journalism school deans, editors and news executives struggling with the perennial questions of what aspiring journalists should learn, how they should be taught and how schools should adapt to the fast-evolving and ever-fragmenting media landscape.
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Cordish joins in gaming venture
Baltimore developer Cordish Co. is teaming up with a prominent gaming industry executive to run gaming projects both in the United States and internationally. The Cordish Co., which has been positioning itself to become a more active player in the growing gambling business, has formed a management company with Dennis Gomes, who has managed casino and hotel properties in Las Vegas and Atlantic City and previously regulated gaming in New Jersey and Nevada, where one of his investigations became the basis for the Martin Scorsese film Casino. .
Great financial leap forward
This is the land for making money, and fast. While China's allure to investors is irresistible, its mysteries run deep and putting your money into the country is fraught with dangers. Many equate Chinese stock markets to a bubble about to burst, scarring all those who dared to participate in its rush to become a global economic might. .
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