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What Pay Walls, Meter Schemes Mean for College Media

Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Amid the gravity-defying hype centered on all-things-iPad (it really won’t have a USB port??), a more important journalistic drumbeat continues to sound.  As Rupert Murdoch, Steven Brill, and most recently the New York Times have confirmed: Pay walls or metered pricing systems for online news content will soon be coming to a high-profile Web site [...]

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Broadcasting Legend Cronkite Started as College Journalist

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Pop quiz: What do John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Lady Bird Johnson, Hugh Hefner, Nike founder Phil Knight, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Peace Corps founder Sargent Shriver, and Barack Obama have in common? – Answer: All once freelanced or worked full-time for a college media outlet. See, it pays to be part [...]

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Florida Journalism Student Fired for Plagiarizing Stories from New York Times

Posted in Journalism, Journalism Ethics, Teachable Moment, tagged , , , , , on July 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Somewhere, Tim Tebow is shaking his fists with rage.  In a case of either sheer unethical boldness or unbelievable ignorance, a University of Florida journalism student has sullied the UF championship facade- plagiarizing parts of articles she wrote as an intern for a Colorado newspaper from none other than the New York freakin’ Times.  (As [...]

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New York Times Article on College Radio Makes Me Mad

Posted in Broadcast Journalism, College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 10, 2008 | 2 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 [...]

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Story Ideas for 2008-12-04

Posted in College Media, Journalism, Story Ideas, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A brief list of what I’ve found to be timely, pertinent, and just damn interesting recent reports from other student and professional media that I hope you might be able to localize, adapt, or otherwise draw inspiration from for stories of your own.   Harvard Endowment Fell 22 Percent in Four Months: How is your university [...]

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New York Times to Quinnipiac: Stop Threatening J-Students

Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A new heavyweight has entered the ongoing free press fight at Quinnipiac University: The New York Times.  In an editorial published last week, the NYT editorial team took QU admins to task for their anti-journalistic actions against Quad News, an indy online news outlet started by QU j-students in response to the ridiculous levels of control admins [...]

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