Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As for the press, winning the Watergate war does not mean automatic vindication for all time on all issues. Obviously newsmen must be as careful and as responsible as ever; mistakes or exaggerations will quickly revive the old attacks on the media. For the time being, though, journalists can rightly...
The single decision to offer midcareer fellowships for journalists, a novel idea at the time, has translated into distinctive opportunities for newsmen and women and has led to new critiques of the profession.
In addition, it has sparked many books and a quarterly magazine, The Nieman Reports (used almost exclusively by journalism schools), which were among the first publications to deal with the responsibilities of the press and the profession's internal problems. These subjects were not considered legitimate when the Nieman Fellowships...
"Most Niemans are basically unhappy about something in the profession or in the work they were doing," Bill Stockton, an AP science writer and current Nieman says. "But the people who have come here find the year has greatly changed them. Their experience can be translated into tangible things that...
Implicit in an improved interaction between providers and consumers of medical care is the right to respect. Medicine is a profession of service, but to many people it seems to serve only itself. Patients fall at the bottom of the hierarchy. To change this, we have to bring providers and...