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Posts Tagged ‘Student Journalism’
From Around the World They Came
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Inauguration Update: Must See Video
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009By Senior Producer/Editor Jacqueline Fernandez (With Technical Assistance from Jonathan Mena)
Today (Monday, January 19) — Jonathan Mena and I got a call from our colleague Luis Mostacero that there might be a chance for us to get press credentials to attend the Inauguration of Barack Obama. The challenged: Jonathan and I had to dash through congested, convoluted Washington D.C. traffic to make it to the Russell Senate Office Building in 30 minutes– or else!
Picture below by Jacqueline Fernandez
Follow-up: “A Victory for Student Journalism at the City University of New York”
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Activist Attorney Ronald B. McGuire follows up an earlier email to his “Community List” regarding a federal court ruling against a former President of City College found guilty of violating the First Amendment rights of a student editor.
December 1 — Youngbloods, Elders and Friends:
Today’s edition of the New York Law Journal (NYLJ) features a front page article reporting a federal judge’s decision to hold former City College President Yolanda Moses liable in a civil rights lawsuit brought by three former City College student activists who worked at the Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community and Student Center at City College.
Excerpts from today’s NYLJ article on the Sigal v. Moses decision are reprinted below.
Jonathan Mena & Jacqueline Fernandez With NAM – Uh Oh!
Sunday, November 16th, 2008This is amusing. After reviewing and then publishing on the WORD their Youtube production about the gay rights rally in New York City November 15, Â I told Jonathan Mena & Jacqueline Fernandez that they were doing too much breaking news and that they should focus on more in-depth stuff for their YouTube broacasts (and for their portfolios).
And guess what? New America Media put their production efforts on its front page.*Â This is exciting. I, with several years of journalism experience and two books and tons of related experience, told two student journalists that I thought what they did was good but they could do better and NAM decides what they did was front-page news.
I love it.
And will address “it” in subsequent posts.
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*This hit NAM’s first page November 16. By tomorrow, it might be in the archives.
The Institute of Nonexistence
Thursday, November 13th, 2008They say the blame lies not with them but with shoddiness in the traditional news media and especially the blogosphere.
The above quote was extracted from a November 13 New York Times story headlined, “A Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence,” written by Richard Pérez-Peña. It’s the kind of story that student journalists should be required to read. Many, I think, would regard what the pranksters did as cool.
NAHJ – 50 Internships And One Great Scholarship: Dear Student Members and Educational Leaders
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) has compiled a list of 50 top journalism internship opportunities with looming deadlines. Don’t miss out on this vital experience toward your journalism career. View the internships.
The WORD & UWIRE
Monday, September 29th, 2008As part of an experiment this academic year, the best of the WORD articles this semester [all WORD articles are good but some are better than others] will be syndicated via UWIRE which says it has more than 800+ affiliate members, nationally and internationally.
First up is by Elizabeth Leonard, one of several that will be published in the coming days. One-hundred Hunter students were interviewed about their presidential preferences.
Later in the semester, the WORD will start submitting video and audio clips on a range of topics. Jonathan Mena, Jacqueline Fernandez and Kisha Allison are showing the way.
The Convention Ends, the Semester Begins: An Instructor’s Lament
Monday, September 8th, 2008I had to send the following email to the WORDÂ Special Correspondents who were in Denver August 24-28. They are so hot, like heat seeking missiles, that I got wrapped in the wakes of their planning strategies to try to continue reporting on the election like they did in late August. Uh oh.
I can’t:
From Left to right: Kisha Allison, Jonathan Mena and Jacqueline Fernandez.
Back from the Democratic Convention, Getting Ready for Classes But …
Sunday, August 31st, 2008I will be writing a lot about the Democratic Convention even though it ended August 28 and the Republican event is about to begin. There was so much going on and I’m not just referring to the political wheeling and dealing and the pageantry. I’m going to provide a kind of behind-the-scenes look. Journalism technology, for example, was on awesome display.
Student Journalism Should Be Serious Journalism – Part II
Sunday, March 8th, 2009The Knight News, its logo, Queens College’s Official Award-Winning Student Newspaper Since 1937, published this excellent article by reporter Jano Tantongco pointing out blistering reporting inaccuracies by New York Newsday, New York Post and New York Daily News on the arrest of Stephen Buttafuoco, a Queens College, CUNY, senior.
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