About Japan Media Review

Welcome to Japan Media Review, an online-only journal that examines how emerging technologies are changing the practice, ethics, law, business and politics of journalism in Japan.

The Japan Media Review project is supported by the Title VI Program of the U.S. Department of Education for Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access, authorized under Title VI (Sec.606) Part A of the Higher Education Act. JMR is a joint project of the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication, the USC East Asian Studies Center and GLOCOM -- the Center for Global Communications at the International University of Japan. JMR launched in March, 2003 and is a sister publication of Online Journalism Review.

Japan Media Review publishes new reports on the forces that are changing journalism and communications in Japan.

Our staff

Erica Ogg, Managing Editor
Erica Ogg is the managing editor of Japan Media Review. She is a graduate student in journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.

Interested writers may send queries to our managing editor via ogg@usc.edu.

Robert Niles, Editor
Robert Niles is the editor of Japan Media Review and Online Journalism Review. He is also a journalism instructor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. He also has worked as a reporter, editor or online producer for the (Bloomington, Ind.) Herald Times, the Omaha World-Herald, the (Denver) Rocky Mountain News and the Los Angeles Times.

You may also contact us via postal mail:

Japan Media Review
Annenberg School of Journalism
University of Southern California
3502 Watt Way, G21
Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA