Archive for the ‘Broadcast Journalism’ Category

College radio stations will be hurting- and some might even be forced to go quiet- with the passage of new legislation requiring non-commercial stations to pay music royalty fees and deliver regular music reports. – As The Daily Texan dutifully reports, under the proposed bill, all stations (including student-run radio) would have to pay annual royalties of $500 [...]

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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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Campus radio stations in the online age are keeping their anti-Top 40 attitudes even as they smartly adapt, according to a recent report in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. — In greater Sioux Falls, the student stations are “are reaching beyond the confines of the college campus” via enhanced signal coverage, Webcasting, programs directed at [...]

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As you watch the celebrified madness unfold during Oscar-mania be sure to seek out Faheem Ahmed and Anish Patel, a pair of Rice University seniors who won a contest enabling them to interview celebs and report from their very own spot on the red carpet. — For his part, Feheem is especially angling for quick [...]

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Ten j-students at San Jose State University are currently “on a roundabout journey from Memphis to Washington, D.C.,” stopping at a number of iconic sites in America’s civil rights journey. ——– As The San Jose Mercury News reports, the trip came together in the immediate aftermath of the November presidential election.  SJSU journalism professor Michael [...]

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A recent New York Times article on how college radio has “maintain[ed] its mojo” in a new media universe makes me mad.  I have no problem with the focus of the piece.  College student radio stations definitely deserve a shout-out.  I just think the NYT piece suffers from numerous cliches of vision and arguments that [...]

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The student newspaper, magazine, yearbook, and broadcast news outlet at Indiana’s Franklin College have merged and converged into a single “comprehensive media experience.”     Yes, I think that description is a bit hokey too, but the idea behind the new all-in-one Web site, The Franklin Online, does raise an interesting question: Is there value in having student journalists at [...]

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Since its launch, the most-viewed posts on this little blog of mine have been those with the words ‘sex’ or ‘Obama’ in the headline.  Am I attempting to exploit the blogosphere’s fascination with the latter here?  Absolutely.  (Happy Thanksgiving!)   A brief rundown of college media’s Obama-mania on and around Election Day 2008:   An Associated [...]

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“Wow.  Just wow.  I’m so encouraged to see all the excellent work being done at college papers across the country.  I’m even more encouraged that it’s not just at the traditional ‘big name’ journalism schools.”   St. Louis Post-Dispatch Interactive Director and Journerdism blogger extraordinaire Will Sullivan wrote with impressed gusto about the recent slate [...]

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Hofstra University j-student extraordinaire Kelly Glista wrote a post-mortem for CMM about her experience covering the final presidential debate and election night in real time with the team at Hofstra’s NewsHub, a convergence-tastic newsroom-classroom.  (Here’s a video about its unveiling.)  Three new media maxims emerged to me on first reading: Take the leap and learn as [...]

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Check out the behind-the-scenes videos that Columbia College Chicago j-students captured during Obama’s already-historic Grant Park Election Night rally.  Undergrads working with Columbia’s student newspaper and student radio station were the only college student media granted official access to the day-and-night event, which the student paper called “Obamapalooza”     Only two videos are featured on the site.  [...]

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One college news media site I’ll be checking out on election day and I suggest you take a look at too: Nassau News.  It is run by Hofstra University j-students working within the School of Communication’s convergence-happy, new-media-tastic “NewsHub.”   As “NewsHub” team member and j-student extraordinaire Kelly Glista told CMM:   Having had the [...]

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It’s official: The Shield, The Edge, and Access USI are coming together.  All it took was a new media revolution.  The student newspaper (Shield), the student-run radio station (Edge), and the student TV station (Access) at the University of Southern Indiana are converging on-the-go this semester, presenting a pair of new multiplatform projects while figuring out what works [...]

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“Do you wanna be on top?”    It is the tagline of what has to be the funniest Web series in collegemediatopia: “LMU’s Next Top Ridiculously Good-Looking Person.”  NTRGLP intermeshes elements of “Project Runway,” “America’s Next Top Model,” and “The Real World,” all with a huge wink to the camera.        The first season of the [...]

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Radio programs in German and Chinese.  A television program “highlighting news, politics, concerts, art and movies” in Spanish.  International is the buzzword in the air (and possibly soon on air) at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.   Rider professor Hernan Fontanet is building on the success of a Spanish-language program broadcast on university radio [...]

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