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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College Radio Could Go Quiet if Royalty Bill Passes
Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, tagged College Media, College Radio, Student Media on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
J-Student Spotlight: Matthew Bunch, University of Miami
Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Journalism, Journalist Spotlight, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, Journalism, Student Journalism, Student Journalist Spotlight 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 [...]
College Radio: Even Prison Inmates Are Tuning In!
Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Future of Journalism, New Media, tagged Broadcast Journalism, College Media, College Radio, New Media, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Student Media on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Journalism Students Report from Red Carpet at Oscars
Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Journalism, tagged Academy Awards, Journalism, Oscars, Red Carpet, Rice University, Student Journalism on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Journalism Students Take Civil Rights Route to Obama Inauguration
Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Journalism, Journalism Education, New Media, Story Ideas, tagged Civil Rights, CNN iReport, College Journalism, Inauguration, Journalism Education, Journalism Students, Obama, San Jose State University on January 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
New York Times Article on College Radio Makes Me Mad
Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, tagged Bryan Murley, Center for Innovation in College Media, College Media, College Radio, Future of Media, New Media, New York Times, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Student Media, WRPI on December 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
All-In-One Website Combines Every Student Media Outlet
Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Magazine Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged College Media, College Newspaper, Convergence, Franklin College, Franklin Online, Future of Journalism, New Media, Student Journalism, Student Magazine, Student Newspaper, Yearbook on December 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Obama Mania in College Media: A 2008 Election Recap
Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Abilene Optimist, Associated Collegiate Press, Center for Innovation in College Media, College Media, Columbia College Chicago, Daily Emerald, Daily Wildcat, Grant Park, Hofstra, Journalism, Lehigh University, Media, Michigan Review, New Media, NewsHub, Obama, Politics, President-Elect, Presidential Election, Sex, Student Journalism, Student Newspaper, University of Arizona, University of Oregon on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
“Your generation & its ability to innovate will save the craft”
Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged ACP, Associated Collegiate Press, College Journalism, College Magazine, Connect Mason, Journerdism, New Media, Online Journalism, Online Pacemakers, Pacemakers, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Student Journalism, Student Newspapers, The Daily Illini, Will Sullivan on November 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“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 [...]
Election Post-Mortem: Beta Test for “Newsroom of the Future”
Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, tagged College Journalism, College Media, Cover It Live, Election Night, Hofstra University, Kelly Glista, Mogulus, New Media, NewsHub, Presidential Debate, Student Journalism on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Live from Hofstra’s NewsHub, it’s Election Day!
Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Journalism, New Media, tagged College Journalism, College Media, Election Day, Hofstra University, Kelly Glista, Live Blogging, Mogulus, NewsHub, Presidential Election, Student Journalism, Student Media on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Con•ver•gence: Defining a (Not So) New (Media) Buzzword
Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Access USI, Campus Journalism, Campus Media, College Media, Convergence, David Black, Student Media, The Edge, The Shield, University of Southern Indiana, USI on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Rider Radio, TV on “Internationalization Plan”
Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Journalism, tagged Broadcast Journalism, Journalism Education on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
