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- Title
Eyes Wide Shut: Failures to Teach Student Journalists About Eyewitness Error.
- Authors
Blom, Robin
- Abstract
Every news story depends on human memory one way or the other; in particular, eyewitness accounts. However, the amount of scholarly research on eyewitness misidentification in the fields of journalism and mass communication is minimal, whereas a plethora of studies is available in other disciplines. Journalism textbooks could fill that void by presenting information about eyewitness issues to student journalists. However, widely adopted journalism textbooks lack in-depth modules, if anything at all, that warn journalism students that they should not take all eyewitness accounts for granted. This essay is a call to increase research in an underdeveloped aspect of journalism education.
- Subjects
JOURNALISM education; MASS media education; JOURNALISM textbooks; JOURNALISM students; EYEWITNESS accounts
- Publication
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, 2019, Vol 74, Issue 3, p345
- ISSN
1077-6958
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077695818816546