AUSTRALASIAN JOURNALISM

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 296, 11 June 1912, Page 8

AUSTRALASIAN JOURNALISM

ITS STANDARD COMMENDED. Auckland, Saturday. The standard of journalism, in New Zealand and Australia was the subject of very favorable comment by Dr. E. E. Slosson, Professor of Journalism at Columbia University, and editor of the New York Independent, who passed through. Auckland yesterday by the Zealandia, en route for Vancouver. Dr. Slosson told a Herald reporter that he was much impressed with the standard of the Australasian daily papers, which he considered was very high. He was particularly struck with the fact that the reporting of public events and general news, both in this Dominion (which he visited on his way to Australia) and in the Commonwealth, is so much more careful and accurate than is the case with the majority of the American papers. Dr. Slosson remarked, however, that what was called "yellow journalism" in the United States is not really as * yellow" as it is generally understood to be. The illustrations in the weekly journals of New Zealand appealed to the professor as much, he said, as any that had ever come under his notice in similar publications.