Archive for June, 2009
Monday, June 29th, 2009
Editor’s Note: This editorial was produced in association with New America Media, a national association of ethnic media, and was published by ethnic media across the country this week to bring attention to the urgency of immigration reform.
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Tags:ethnic news media, immigration reform, New America Media, undocumented immigrants
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Mom called me around 9 a.m. September 11, 2001, to tell me that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
“Turn on the television,” she said.
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Tags:56 Glenwood, 9/11, Avenue, Carmelites, death, dying, Jersey City, JFK, Kim Smith, Medical examiners, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson dies, Monroe Couty Medica Examiner, obituaries, Path trains, SWAT
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
I wrote the original text for this post  (well below the picture) a few hours before I watched the Tuesday 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. news; I’m not sure what was specifically bothering me then regarding the news coverage, probably that it was inadequate. Now, I guess I would have liked to have seen reporters getting in the faces of politicians and asking serious questions or asking serious follow-up questions to the lame responses from the few pols who wanted their faces in the evening and late evening news.
Viewers have been getting the typical unchallenged, wishy-washy responses, i.e. sound bites, allowed by TV reporters in the field. Most sound bites are awful.
I think now, on reflection, I wanted to see reporters assailing the pols the way it is done with perp walks.
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Tags:Albany, New York City news media, new york state legislature
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
I’ve been experimenting with a variety of strategies regarding media devices and so-called social networking media like blogging, youtube, facebook, myspace, UWIRE, twitter, Current TV, et. al., so that, one, my classroom instruction, and two, my professional interests/goals, can try to keep up with the burgeoning technological advances in communication, i.e., the dissemination of news and news-like information.
I’ve been doing this as D:F/M gurus seem committed to D:F/M being as far behind innovation and creativity as an academic department can be during these robust times. I also have been experimenting with new forms of news-narrative-storytelling, such as in my feature writing class for the last few semesters (though the course should be named in-depth reporting or something even more imaginative).
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Tags:Clay Shirky, CNN, Current TV, D:F/M, facebook, myspace, social networking media, Sreenath Sreenivasan, Stuart Ewen, twitter, UWIRE, Youtube
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
This New York Times June 18 special project on homicides in New York City provides good resource material for aspiring journalists interested in writing about, well, murder and crime. And I will most likely try to incorporate into the reading list of one of my advanced news writing classes. Story and the multimedia can be found here. And that recommendation allows me, in good conscious, to segue to this recollection: That period in my journalistic life when murder was on my mind.
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Tags:crime reporting, Democrat & Chronicle, homicide, matricide, murder, New York City crime, New York City homicides, New York Times, patricide, pursuit of truth, The Kids Next Door
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Time for Immigration Reform Is Now
Monday, June 29th, 2009Editor’s Note: This editorial was produced in association with New America Media, a national association of ethnic media, and was published by ethnic media across the country this week to bring attention to the urgency of immigration reform.
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Tags:ethnic news media, immigration reform, New America Media, undocumented immigrants
Posted in I Didn't See This on the Evening News (A Work in Progress), Journalism, Journalism Education, New America Media, News/Commentary/Opinion | Comments Closed