Wikipedia:WikiProject Journalism

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Journalism portal Shortcut: WP:JOURN

WikiProject Journalism coordinates the editing of articles, related to journalism and news; including: news media; news business and news industry.

This project brings focus on the universe of articles that deal with journalism. Please see the project's talk pages for ongoing discussions.

Contents 1 Project relevant Wikipedia articles 2 Open tasks 2.1 To Do 2.2 Cleanup 3 Participants 3.1 Members 3.2 Userbox 3.3 Related groups of Wikipedians 4 Articles 4.1 New Wikipedia articles related to Journalism 4.2 Did you know? 4.3 Article improvement drive 4.4 Collaboration of the week 4.5 Peer review 4.6 Good Article nominations 4.7 Featured picture candidates 4.8 Featured article candidates 4.9 Review and assessment 4.9.1 Statistics and quality content listings 5 Categories and subpages 6 Templates 6.1 Infoboxes 6.2 Stub sorting 6.3 Citation formatting 6.4 Newspaper navigation 7 Resources 7.1 Related WikiProjects

[edit] Project relevant Wikipedia articles

Articles can be found at Category:WikiProject Journalism

The main page is Journalism.

[edit] Open tasks

[edit] To Do

edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Journalism:

Place the project banner, {{WikiProject Journalism}}, on the talk pages of all articles within the scope of this project. Rate the unassessed articles according to the quality scale Cleanup: CNN, 2003 invasion of Iraq media coverage, Editorial Expand: L'Aurore, History of journalism, Journalist Stubs: Documentary stubs, Journalist stubs, Newspaper stubs, Magazine stubs, News television series stubs, More stubs... Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of journalists

[edit] Cleanup

[edit] Participants

[edit] Members

Add yourself to the list at the following subpage: /Participants

[edit] Userbox

Copying the following code to your user page will add the WikiProject Journalism userbox:
{{User WikiProject Journalism}}

[edit] Related groups of Wikipedians

• Category:Wikipedian journalists

[edit] Articles

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Journalism

Please feel free to list your new Journalism-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

• Michael Theodoulou - created stub 2009-05-04 (need help expanding please)
• Future of newspapers - created 2009-03-17
• Al Kaprielian - created stub 2008-12-03
• Euromoney (magazine) - created stub 2008-10-12
• Google News - existing article added 2008-09-15
• Portland Monthly - created 2008-09-12
• Kathleen Hays - existing stub added 2008-09-09
• American News Project - created 2008-09-07
• Las Cruces Bulletin - created 2008-08-20
• Las Cruces Sun-News - created 2008-07-25
• Alamogordo Daily News - created 2008-05-28
• Colorado Springs Independent - stub expanded 2008-03-27
• Community journalism — stub created 2008-02-07
• Entertainment journalism — stub created 2008-01-31
• Political journalism — stub created 2008-01-31
• Opinion journalism — stub created 2008-01-31
• MacWEEK — existing stub added to project 2007-12-25. Merry Christmas.
• Wired News — existing stub added to project 2007-12-24 (wow that last addition to the project really took off didn't it)
• New York Native — Now defunct gay newspaper in NYC (1980-1997). Added 2007-12-15, stub class. Published very first news story on AIDS in 1981. Re-rated Start. Listed in main page DYK on 2007-12-21.
• Advance Publications — existing Stub added 2007-12-12, might be Start class, not sure yet
• IDG — existing stub added 2007-11-23
• Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Oprah Winfrey, Laramie Boomerang and Utne (magazine) (may be moved back to Utne Reader again, I don't know) — (only added to project, changed the wikilinks here to best guess, and removed my note here from earlier)
• Bloomberg L.P. — existing stub added 2007-11-11
• Neil Shapiro — stub created 2007-11-06
• Existing stubs Adam C. Engst, Tonya Engst and Glenn Fleishman added to project (only added some markup)
• Jean-François Kahn — French journalist, stubby but referenced; more substantial material exists on French Wikipedia — created 2007-10-29
• Alfred Cowles, Sr. — stub created 2007-10-25
• Cowles Publishing Company — created 2007-10-24
• Cowles Media Company — stub created 2007-10-24
• Edmund Chester - created 2007-01-30
• Lilia Luciano - this article was created in 12-08 and contains multiple uncited and questionable statements. It reads like a resume and was likely self-written. It requires a fresh review from a television journalism expert.

[edit] Did you know?

• Religion Newswriters Association - listed 2008-09-10
• Worth Bingham Prize - listed 2007-11-15
• Conscience-in-Media Award - listed 2007-11-12
• Cowles Publishing Company — listed 2007-10-29
• 2007 Bangladesh cartoon controversy — listed 2007-09-26
• MinnPost.com — listed 2007-09-02
• Mark Kellogg (reporter) — listed 2006-02-15

[edit] Article improvement drive

• Journalist — Needs resource citations, general cleanup. Should it be split up? — added 2007-04-15
• History of journalism — Needs resource citations, more than one source cited, more information for non-English, U.S. press histories — added 2007-04-15
• 2003 invasion of Iraq media coverage — needs reference cleanup (preferably using citation templates) — added 2007-04-15

[edit] Collaboration of the week

[edit] Peer review

• The Daily Show

[edit] Good Article nominations

[edit] Featured picture candidates

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Review and assessment

[edit] Statistics and quality content listings

Journalism article rating and assessment scheme
(NB: Listing, Log & Stats are updated on a daily basis by a bot)

Current detailed listing of Journalism articles by quality

Daily log of status changes

Current Statistics

Journalism articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 3 2 11 16 A 1 1 GA 1 2 5 37 45 B 3 5 17 15 111 151 C 5 17 22 52 96 Start 1 18 60 90 488 657 Stub 9 19 144 4586 4758 List 1 1 84 86 Assessed 4 39 118 279 5370 5810 Unassessed 2 1 3 11344 11350 Total 4 41 119 282 16714 17160

[edit] Categories and subpages

• List of all subpages of this page
• Category:Journalism

[edit] Templates

• {{Journalism}}
• {{JournProjectTemplate}}
• {{WikiProject Journalism}} (for relevant article talk pages)
• {{ISSN-needed}} (for relevant article talk pages)
• {{Newspaper rationale}} (for image pages)

[edit] Infoboxes

• {{Infobox journalist}}
• {{Infobox Newspaper}}
• {{Infobox Magazine}}
• {{Yiddish Journalism}}

[edit] Stub sorting

• {{Journalism-stub}}
• {{Journalist-stub}}
• {{newspaper-stub}}
• {{US-newspaper-stub}}
• {{mag-stub}}

[edit] Citation formatting

• {{cite news}}
• {{cite web}}

[edit] Newspaper navigation

• {{Belo Corporation}}
  
• {{Blethen}} - The Seattle Times Company
  
• {{COX}}
  
• {{CNHI}} - Community Newspaper Holdings
  
• {{DowJonesNews}}
  
• {{EWS CORP}} - E. W. Scripps Company
  
• {{GCI}} - Gannett Company
  
• {{Journal Communications}}
  
• {{JRC}} - Journal Register Company
  
• {{Knight Ridder Newspapers}}
  
• {{Lee Enterprises}}
  
• {{McClatchy}}
  
• {{Media General}}
  
• {{News Corporation}}
  
• {{NNE}} - Newspapers of New England
  
• {{NY Times}}
  
• {{Tribune}}
  
• {{WPO-PNS}} - The Washington Post Company
  
• {{UCCorp}} - United Communications Corporation
  

[edit] Resources

[edit] Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Media

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