The Dartmouth University hazing scandal first brought to light earlier this semester in the school’s student newspaper is featured prominently in the current edition of Rolling Stone. “Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy: Inside Dartmouth’s Hazing Abuses” is a “meditation on class, violence, and power in Dartmouth’s overheated campus culture.” The piece premiered online yesterday to oodles of interwebs chatter.
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Dartmouth Hazing Scandal: From Student Newspaper Column to Rolling Stone
Posted in Journalism, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper on March 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Most Popular Tennessee Daily Beacon Story: ‘Masturbation, Steak Theft Plague UT’
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper on March 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A whopper of a headline leapt out at me during a web scan of The Daily Beacon website yesterday afternoon. The header tops an article containing crime report highlights from a decade of campus life at the University of Tennessee. The oddity: It first ran in 2004, but eight years later remains the most popular story on the Beacon site. The headline: “Masturbation, Steak Theft Plague UT.”
Time to Wake Up: Independent Student Newspapers are Struggling Financially
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Student Newspaper on March 28, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Student newspapers are struggling financially. The decade-long plights of the professional press have at last weaved their way into the land of collegemediatopia. If not quite a time of reckoning for campus papers, we have definitely entered a prolonged period of dramatic change– cutbacks, weary sighs, and hopefully some spirited reinventions. That is the gist of what I told Connecticut Post reporter Linda Lambeck late last week when contacted for a quote.
10 Tips for Journalism Students: How to Land a Job and Impress People
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Education, Teachable Moment on March 27, 2012 | 6 Comments »
At this past weekend’s SPJ Region 3 Conference, Meredith Cochie delivered a hyperactive Broadway-esque performance– interrupted only by the occasional “coffee burp” (her words). In a manic 50-minute session that brought a blah-carpeted University of Florida auditorium to life, Cochie shared a bevy of tips aimed at helping j-students stand out from the job-seeking masses and land a gig worth bragging about on Facebook.
Oregon Journalism Students Having Trouble Checking Out Multimedia Equipment They Need (@DailyEmerald)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Education, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged College, Education, Media, Technology on March 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Students in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon are increasingly having trouble checking out reporting 2.0 tools like video cameras and digital recorders from the school stockpile, a report late last week in The Oregon Daily Emerald revealed. Apparently, a new set of classes is requiring their use, suddenly making demand dramatically outpace supply. Frustrations are up. Assignments are being submitted late. Deadlines are being pushed back. And work quality is suffering.
Top 13 Reasons Journalists Screw Up Their Stories
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Teachable Moment, tagged current-events, Media on March 25, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Over the past month, my magical mystery tour of collegemediatopia’s best and brashest conferences has led me to Seattle, New York, and, most recently, Gainesville, Fla. At yesterday’s Region 3 Society of Professional Journalists Conference– held at the University of Florida– a bevy of entertaining presenters educated student and adviser attendees about all manner of journalistic greatness and ills.
10 More Funny College Memes: Kony 2012, Spring Break Tans & Dorm Bathroom Cleaning
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media on March 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
As I’ve posted previously, one the major stories of the semester so far: college memes. Campus-specific memes have been invading the Facebook streams of students at schools throughout the U.S., Canada, and parts of Europe. A rash of student media reports and social media chatter confirm that undergraduates’ online experiences have been hovering between “meme madness” and full-blown“meme mania.” I recently shared a sampling of memes posted on college meme Facebook pages. Building on that post’s popularity, I wanted to offer another glimpse at college memes being produced by students at schools nationwide.
Journalism Professors: When Your Students Want to Cover March Madness, You Excuse Them From Class
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Education on March 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In the oddest piece I’ve come across this week, a professional-in-residence (AKA visiting prof.) at Marquette University debates how he should have responded to a pair of his students who asked to be excused from class to cover March Madness-related events in person for reputable outlets. For some reason, this debate takes 1,000 words and involves multiple sources weighing in. Seriously?
Students Trash Copies of Georgia State Signal Issue Featuring Sorority Hazing Reports (@gsusignal)
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper on March 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Only hours after a recent issue of The Signal hit campus newsstands at Georgia State University, students were seen allegedly trashing roughly 250 copies, a Student Press Law Center Report confirms. The most likely motivation for the students’ hasty dump-and-run: reports in the issue on GSU sorority hazing practices and other Greek organization investigations.
Hunger Games 101: A Student Schools Me on the Story, Fan Fervor & Why Katniss is Better Than Bella
Posted in College Media, Journalism on March 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The girl on fire. The Katniss braid. The Capitol. District 12. “Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death.” Tributes. Peeta. Panem. “May the Odds Ever Be in Your Favor.” With The Hunger Games about to invade multiplexes, the many locations, characters, quotes and quirks unique to the world author Suzanne Collins created are about to loom large within pop culture. I wanted to know what they were all about.
Two Offbeat Diversity Stories: Common Readings & Campus Portraits (@thecrimson @cornellsun)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A pair of stories that would fit snugly into the diversity beat caught my eye in Ivy League student newspapers recently. They are both reminders that diversity issues are present on every campus beyond the gender spread, skin color, and birthplaces of the student body and staff. In these cases, they are also hanging on the walls and assigned as readings.
Campus Paper Reports on Cockroaches, Food Safety Violations; 650 Copies Stolen. Coincidence? (#nyc12)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, Student Newspaper, Student Newspaper Theft on March 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Roughly 650 copies of The Unfiltered Lens have been reported stolen at the Community College of Rhode Island, prompting speculation the thefts may be a response to Lens reports on cockroaches and food safety violations. Noting that other publications distributed on campus were noticeably left stacked in their newsstands, the paper’s editor-in-chief Robert Armistead said “it leads me to believe that it is something specific with our newspaper, and more specifically with this issue.”
Oklahoma State Student Senate to Daily O’Collegian: Allow SGA Members to Write for the Paper (@OColly)
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Student Newspaper on March 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In a short, spirited column appearing in today’s Daily O’Collegian at Oklahoma State University, opinion editor C.J. Cavin is forced to reassert a longstanding rule at the paper: Members of the school’s student government are not permitted to serve on staff. – Late last month, the OSU student senate passed legislation stating that SGA members [...]
Chicago State Ordered By Law to Reinstate Fired Student Newspaper Adviser (#freepressvictory)
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, Student Newspaper on March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In a fascinating First Amendment and free press ruling, a federal judge has ordered Chicago State University to rehire a student newspaper adviser fired in 2008 after articles critical of the CSU administration were published. According to local news media and a Student Press Law Center report, the school must reinstate Steven Moore to his previous position– executive director of communications– for at least one year and erase negative references within his employment records. Firing him, the federal judge overseeing the case confirmed, was a violation of his free speech rights.
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