Can I take their picture?
Getting better at interacting with commuters to get pictures. Asked politely. Lighting not so good (see below) and shot with flash (which is a no-no on NYT subways) but don’t know about PATH.
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Archive for October, 2009
Commute PATH, Train, October 30, Friday, 11:32 A.M
Saturday, October 31st, 2009Uwire.com Temporarily Comatose, Not Buried, Not Dead – The Saga Continues But the Mistakes End Here
Friday, October 30th, 2009Earlier Posts Flawed. Is the WORD Becoming a Rumormonger? Uh Oh!
From Uwire.com General Manager:
Uwire.com Temporarily Comatose, Not Dead
Thursday, October 29th, 2009The Report of Its Death Greatly Exaggerated?
Real-World Journalism
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009There’s been a lot of whining and sighing about the demise of print newspapers. No tears shed here. Â They ignored the Oracles warning of the Darwinian consequences if they didn’t clean up their act. The same fate should befall those journalism programs that don’t engage their students in real-world journalism.
The digital journalism tsunami is here, has been here and is continuing for those who don’t know. But you wouldn’t know that in light of the undergraduate journalism curriculum at certain higher ed institutions. Students are posting on CNN’s iReport, including one of mine whose uploads get special treatment. There are other sites gobbling up the potential as soon as it appears.
Center for Communication Annual Frank Stanton Award Luncheon, October 29, 2009, Pierre Hotel, New York City
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
This year, Charlie Rose honored. Luncheon co-chairs this year: Bill Baker, President Emeritus, Channe 13; Tim Armstrong, Chairman and CEO, AOL; David J. Barrett, President and CEO, Hearst Television Inc.; Phillippe Dauman, President and CEO, Viacom, Inc.; David Geffen, The David Geffen Company; David Boies, Chairman, Boies Schiller and Flexner LLP; Teri Everett, SVP, Corporate Affairs and Communications, News Corporation, Debra L. Lee, Chairman and CEO, BET Networks.
Other Co-Chairs: Leslie Moonves, President & CEO, CBS Corporation; Katherine Oliver, Commissioner, New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting and Acting President & General Manager of New York City Media Group; Ivan G. Seidenberg, Chairman & CEO, Verizon Communications, Inc.; David Zaslav, President & CEO, Discovery Communications; Martin Nisenholtz, Senior Vice President, Digital Operations, The New York Times Company; Richard Plepler, Co-President, HBO; Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman, CEO & President, Sony Corporation; Jeff Zucker, President & CEO, NBC Universal.
The Center has always been a strong supporter of Hunter students for many years because this is the campus where the Center pioneered its panel discussions for selected college campuses.
UWIRE.com Dead
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009It was sold and the deal has been cloaked in secrecy. It stopped publishing in mid September. It boasted a membership of college news services that spanned the country and had members over seas. Should anyone care about the demise of a national student news organization?
Thompson Claims Victory in Last Mayoral Debate
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Hey-Hey, Ho-Ho! CNN’s Nativist Has to Go! — Update
Saturday, October 24th, 2009“We won’t allow the network to court us as viewers while, at the same time, they allow Dobbs to spread lies and misinformation about us each night,†Roberto Lovato, a founding member of Presente.org, was quoted in the New York Times as saying about CNN’s Lou Dobbs. Also wrote the NY Times reporter: “The hypocrisy, critics say, lies in CNN’s decision to woo Hispanic viewers with a prime-time documentary while still giving Mr. Dobbs a nightly forum.”
What’s to Be Made of This “Positive” News That Thompson Could Dump the Term Limits Miscreant
Saturday, October 31st, 2009October 29, 2009 press press release printed in its entirety because of insufficient savvy to gauge its significance:
Tags:2009 Mayoral Race, Garin Heart Yang Research Group, Jr, Mayor Bloomberg, William C. Thompson Jr.
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