It is a tweet staffers no doubt wish they could take back: “i think i might be gay??” The odd questioning message popped up yesterday on the twitter feed of The Technician, the student newspaper at North Carolina State University. It was quickly deleted, but not before at least one reader spotted and retweeted it. The paper soon after apologized.
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North Carolina State Technician Publishes Accidental ‘Gay’ Tweet
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, Teachable Moment, tagged Journalism, New Media, North Carolina State, Technology, Twitter on January 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
@CommInternships: A Column on Journalism 2.0 Jobs and Internships #2 (@QUCommCareers)
Posted in @comminternships, College Media, Journalism, tagged Communications, Employment, Jobs, Journalism, Media, Twitter on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
– @CommInternships A column on journalism 2.0 jobs and internships – – By Steven Chappell – The best thing about running the @comminternships feed has been my virtual meetings with many of my followers. One of those followers, @QUCommCareers, has become a virtual mirror of the feed, particularly for students in the Northeast corner of [...]
@CommInternships: An Aggregator to Inform Students About Available Jobs, Internships
Posted in @comminternships, Journalism, New Media, tagged @comminternships, journalism jobs, Steven Chappell, Twitter on December 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In August of 2010, I began a new job as the Student Media Specialist at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. Along with advising the student media, one of my duties is also serving as the internship coordinator for students in Communication and Media Studies at the college. As a social media hound, I knew there had to be a way to use Twitter as an aggregator to inform students about available internships. A few weeks into the semester, @comminternships was born.
Breaking News: Gunman Loose at Virginia Tech, Police Officer Shot, Killed
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Blacksburg, Campus Shooting, Collegiate Times, Twitter, Virginia Tech on December 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A smattering of media reports and a ton of tweets are reporting a gunman is loose on the campus of Virginia Tech after fatally shooting a police officer. The Collegiate Times, VT’s student newspaper, has one brief report up on its website (as of 1:30 p.m. EST), describing the suspect “as a white male wearing gray sweatpants and a gray hat with a neon green brim, a maroon hoodie sweatshirt and a backpack.”
2011 Year in Review: Top News Stories, Tweets, Search Terms, Baby Names
Posted in Journalism, New Media, Story Ideas, tagged Baby, Bing, celebrity, Facebook, Huffington Post, Kardashian, religion, Sports Illustrated, Time Magazine, Twitter on December 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
While December may argue about being given short shrift, the year in review bonanza has begun in earnest. Lists are being unveiled ranking the top news stories, sports stories, religion stories, style trends, scandals, tweets, search terms, and baby names, along with the most shared stories on Facebook.
College Media Villains of the Year: James Franco, A-Lister, Apes Lover, Yale Daily News Hater
Posted in College Media, College Media Villains, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged James Franco, Journalism, New Media, Oscars, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Student Newspaper, Twitter, Yale Daily News, Yale University on August 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
– College Media Villains, 2010-2011 – Over the past academic year, a small number of school officials, outside individuals, and even an A-list celebrity negatively impacted collegemediatopia– or at least deigned to try. Their complaints, backroom dealings or outright censorship have left a sour taste in the mouths of student journalists and their supporters. First up [...]
Student Journalist’s Resume Goes Viral, Changes the World
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Teachable Moment, tagged Chris Spurlock, Convergence, Huffington Post, J-School Buzz, resume, Twitter, University of Missouri on February 26, 2011 | 6 Comments »
On Friday, J-School Buzz posted a screenshot of Spurlock’s work on its own site and The Huffington Post with the header, “Is This the Coolest Student Journalist Resume Ever?” The post quickly went viral with a virility that would make Antoine Dodson and that David After Dentist kid blush.
Campus Buzz Listing: College Media on Twitter
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, tagged College Journalism, College Media, Journalism, Media, New Media, Student Journalism, Twitter on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Campus Buzz has a new list bringing together the tweets of more than 300 campus media outlets onto one Twitter page. Especially in the absence of UWIRE, it is an appreciated way to gain at least a barebones glimpse of what’s going down in the campus news world at any given moment. – Separately, below [...]
Holocaust Satire Article Prompts Apology; Purdue Students on “Hotseat”
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Ethics, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Facebook, Journalism, New Media, Purdue, Satire, Student Newspaper, Twitter on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been sitting on a scattered mix of news items. Some are current, some a bit dated. Before all become stale, here are a few: – An article joking about the start of a new U.S.-based Holocaust that ran last month in a satirical newspaper put out by Reed College students has spurred criticism [...]
New Journalism Class: From Breaking News to . . . Tweets?!
Posted in College Media, Future of Journalism, Journalism, Journalism Education, New Media, tagged Journalism, Journalism Education, New Media, Twitter on September 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“The way you make yourself valuable on the Web is: you edit the [expletive] Web.” – Jay Rosen – So begins the syllabus for a new tweetastic, microblogerrific DePaul University journalism class that is all atwitter over Twitter, employing the site’s 140-character-at-a-time grab-bag of information as the centerpiece of a semester-long practicum on journalism investigations [...]
UF’s John Wright Officially Becomes “Coolest Dean Ever” :)
Posted in Journalism, Journalism Education, New Media, tagged Journalism Education, New Media, Twitter on July 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
John Wright, dean of the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida, is now officially the coolest dean ever. – In a recent post detailing a UF student’s unfortunate spate of plagiarism, I mentioned being suitably impressed that Wright communicated his initial reaction, in part, through a status update on his Facebook [...]
Twitter Used by J-Students to Track Handicapped Spots
Posted in College Media, Journalism, Journalism Education, New Media, tagged College Media, Journalism, Journalism Education, New Media, Twitter on March 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A class of j-students at the University of Minnesota Duluth recently tweeted from parking lots across the UMD campus. Their aim, The Duluth News Tribune reports: Verifying how many handicapped spots were available in mid-morning on a typical weekday. — The Twitter report fleshed out a recent story in the student newspaper regarding complaints about [...]
25 Random Things About Modern College Media: Part 3
Posted in College Media, Free Press Fights, Future of Journalism, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Blog, College Journalism, Facebook Random List, Free Press, Journalism, Online Journalism, Shovelware, SOS SASS, Student Media, Twitter on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My contribution to the now way-too-popular “Random” list phenomenon continues below with Part 3 of “25 Random Things About Modern College Media.” (Also see Part 1 and Part 2.) As promised, today’s segment is all about the tough love, presenting some of the harsher truths about 21st-century collegemediatopia. First up… — 11) Student media online [...]
Bomb Threat Does Not Stop Daily Tar Heel from Publishing!
Posted in College Media, Journalism, New Media, Student Newspaper, tagged Bomb Threat, College Journalism, College Press, Daily Tar Heel, Journalism, New Media, Student Media, Student Newspaper, Twitter, UNC on February 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Do not mess with The Daily Tar Heel! Student staffers at the venerable University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus newspaper were dealing with the usual stresses of a looming print deadline this past Sunday night. And then the bomb dropped. Or at least the threat of one, which forced the evacuation of a [...]
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