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Record W2000937494 · doi:10.1177/1077695814535551

It Takes a Team and Optimism

2014· article· en· W2000937494 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournalism & Mass Communication Educator · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation, Sociology, Communication Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsJournalismOptimismSociologyMedia studiesNewspaperPolitical sciencePublic relationsLawPsychologySocial psychology

Abstract

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Right now, spring is in the air, and after a long and extremely cold winter, there is a sense of new beginnings. Classes are coming to an end. Students and faculty alike are excited about the imminent summer break.I, too, am witnessing a new beginning. I am in transition to a new team. Effective July 1, I will serve as dean of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). I have relinquished my tenure at Central Michigan University where I served as chair of the Department of Journalism for twelve years.You will note that the masthead of this edition of Journalism & Mass Communication Educator (JM the JM the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Publications Committee; and the AEJMC executive director, Jennifer McGill, also contribute greatly to this journal.Sometimes, it also takes optimism. Two articles in the past month have given me reason to be optimistic about the future of journalism and indeed about the future of journalism and mass communications education.Marty Baron, editor of The Washington Post, in his keynote speech at the fifteenth International Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas-Austin, about the need for optimism in journalism, concluded his remarks by saying, There is no acceptable alternative to optimism.He said:We cannot be successful if we are not optimistic, if we do not recognize opportunities and seize on them. If we are not optimistic, why work to succeed? What use would it be? And if you are not working to succeed, no matter the obstacles, you are not working as you should.Baron's reasons to be optimistic about the future of journalism are as follows:* We've survived. We're still here. Real journalists are doing real journalism.* New owners are bringing needed new capital and a range of disparate ideas, rethinking business models. Such people include Jeff Bezos, new owner of the Washington Post; Red Sox owner John Henry who has acquired The Boston Globe; Warren Buffett who is acquiring newspapers in smaller communities; and Minnesota billionaire Glen Taylor who has offered to buy the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.848
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.074
GPT teacher head0.419
Teacher spread0.345 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it