Archive for May, 2009

iPod, iPhone To Be RequIred (Sort of) at MIzzou J-School

Posted in Future of Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Education, New Media, tagged , , on May 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Forget notebooks, textbooks, pens, pencils, cell phones, laptops, Kindles, and possibly even in-class attendance.  The future of j-education, according to the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, begins with the letter i.   – The school is encouraging j-students to purchase either or both an iPod touch and an iPhone to complement or [...]

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Student Editor: “This Isn’t How the Rocky Mountain News and Post-Intelligencer Died”

Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Editors at The Stentor student newspaper at Chicago’s Lake Forest College launched an editorial comeback to the LFC administration’s recent decision to no longer employ the paper’s adviser.  The purported reason, as you might guess, is what the college president calls “budget stress.”   – Stentor staffers are not buying- citing a mega-huge, $17-million sports [...]

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Student Photographer Shoots War Series

Posted in College Media, Journalism, tagged , , on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a link to a brief profile in The Advance Titan at UW-Oshkosh of a student photographer that mostly caught my eye because of a terrific lede description about the photog’s slightly unordinary posing instructions:  – Amber Patrick doesn’t do the typical class picture. There is no lining up students in rows with the teacher in [...]

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J-Student Spotlight: Matthew Bunch, University of Miami

Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Journalism, Journalist Spotlight, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , on May 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Matthew Bunch has broadcast in his blood and background and paper-and-ink under his current control.  The 21-year-old University of Miami student is a broadcast journalism and economics double-major who loves “Anchorman” and “Network” and previously won the National Association of Sports Public Address Announcers’ national high school announcer of the year award.  (Try to say that [...]

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Did Condoleezza Rice Disrespect College Journalist?

Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The words are literally cringe-inducing: “No dear, no dear, you’re wrong.”  The words escaped the lips of former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice during a recent interview with a j-student at Stanford University.  As captured on video, Rice’s ‘no dear’ comment, related finger-pointing, and general you’re-so-naive tone has some wondering if she treated her interviewer like [...]

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Student: “Forget the Web; I Want to Read a Newspaper”

Posted in Future of Journalism, Journalism on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Forget the e-reader! :)  At least one college student is still singing print newspaper’s praises, via an editorial The DePauw: – Throughout first semester, I woke up early most mornings, mosied to the Hub, and while munching on a bagel, perused the Star- a habit which I’d practiced regularly for many years. Though a small, [...]

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Would You Read a Student Newspaper on This?

Posted in Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, tagged on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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J-Student Spotlight: Georgia Adams, Univ. of West Florida

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalist Spotlight, Student Newspaper, tagged , , on May 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Georgia Adams once proudly danced on the bar at Coyote Ugly in Nashville, and her hair is sometimes red “or redder, or blue, or something in between.”  Her journalism work is similarly bold and scattered.  Adams is currently finishing up a stint as both managing editor AND sports editor (interesting combo) for The Voyager student newspaper at the [...]

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Student Newspaper Stops Publishing to Fight Censorship

Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , on May 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Call it The Showdown at Cedarville U.  The two sides in collegemediatopia’s latest free press fight, according to a news report:  ”classic journalism” versus “biblical truth.”   – The Cedars student newspaper at Cedarville University in Ohio will no longer publish, in protest of an administrative control that editors say has gone from over-zealous to [...]

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