Archive for September, 2009
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Feature writing class has been learning that this instructor’s course  — taught as an in-depth writing course — does not match the description of feature writing described by their basic reporting instructor of spring semester 2009 who told them that a feature story was “light” and that features didn’t use summary news leads. Uh oh!
And D:F/M’s journalism effort is back in the stone age. Should the students be told? Should prospective applicants be warned? Colleagues zonked on Zombie Juice? Uh Oh!
Tags: D:F/M, feature writing, in-depth writing, teaching writing
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
June 9-12, Washington, D.C.: “The goal of the conference is to provide a faculty perspective on critical issues in higher education presented in a format accessible to the general public.”
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Tags: AAUP, Academic Bullying, academic freedom, academic integrity, critical issues in higher education, higher education
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
September 18, 2009 – “The new semester is well underway at almost all the nation’s journalism schools. Students have received their syllabi, explaining exactly what the school expects from its students during their courses. But what should students expect from their schools?
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Tags: journalism education, Journalism Schools
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
Students in the instructor’s feature writing class have been assigned to write about their commuting experiences to and from campus. The instructor will be providing pedagogical tidbits from time to time. Mostly images.
ACLU Petitioning for an Important Cause
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Tags: ACLU, Civil Liberties, commuting, gay marriage, gay rights
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
Said what was needed to be said no matter what the right of center, far right and fringe right have to say and bitch (as news media, pundits, whatever) about what he said. Like the New York Daily News – the only major urban daily ever to lose a federal discrimination lawsuit because of the way it treated its journalists of color – said what was to be expected, it’s headline: “Jerky Jimmy’s junk: Carter’s cries of racism are both wrong and destructive.” [Destructive?!?]
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Tags: fringe right, Juan Williams, New York Daily News, President Barack Obama, President Jimmie Carter
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
Students in feature writing have to produce a “Commute” as the final assignment, a journalistic narrative about their commuting to and from the campus for the semester. Words and pictures. The instructor has been warming up for this assignment also. And two encounters on the subway indicate his reflexes need to be revived.
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Tags: commute, feature writing, Jesus, subways
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
Students on third-floor crosswalk connecting Hunter West and Hunter North Buildings peer at Hunter West courtyard, Lexington Avenue and 68th Street.
Below: Left this item out of the previous post:
PEN American Center joins forces with American Civil Liberties Union October 13 to contront the acts of torture and abuse carried out on by the United States government since 9/11.
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
The DVT put the bite on the start of my semester …
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Tags: D:F/M, DNRAD, journalism courses
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A Pithy But Soft Rant About the Value of Real-World Journalism Assignments for Students
Sunday, September 27th, 2009A former WORD writer is a Deputy Press Secretary for the Manhattan Borough President. She was introduced to politics via an advanced reporting class assignment several years ago when she was a student at Hunter and was required to contact her elected officials for her article. She was persistent about getting her phone calls returned and being treated with respect. She eventually visited the office of a New York State senator to accentuate her seriousness. It’s not easy being a serious student journalist.
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Tags: politics, real-world journalism assignments, student journalists, Victoria Nee-Lartey
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