Archive for January, 2011

Lawrence, Kansas: Savage Storm

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

WORD editor in this Sun Flower college town. Ten inches predicted by late evening, January 20.

About 3 p.m. Heading south on Wakarusa.

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IPPIES Journalism Awards Dinner 2011

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011


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It Was One of Those Semesters

Monday, January 17th, 2011

Below, the first two paragraphs of a very long memo in the wake of the November 10, 2010, faculty meeting.

November 14, 2010
Colleagues,

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From the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute

Monday, January 17th, 2011

NYU Journalism Handbook for Students.

Absolutely cool. I will be using this in my classrooms this semester. Slowly integrating, of course.

It Was One of Those Semesters

Monday, January 17th, 2011

The November 10, 2010  D:F/M Faculty Meeting Was Hot

In the thick of the inferno of that November 10 meeting,  the Hunter College PSC Chapter Chair, rising to a moment during tepid discourse,* announces to her Colleagues, QMfE, “I can’t take this anymore”* and reaches into her ban and aims her teenie-weenie digital pipsqueak at the Colleague whose comments may have overpowered her ability to respond collegially.

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Thursday, January 13th, 2011

Posted on the Hunter College Listserv for effect:

From SPJ: “The Mark of Excellence Awards deadline is January 26. With a few weeks to go, why not take time at the beginning of the semester or quarter to submit your work in a national contest from the Society of Professional Journalists?

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This Semester

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

The WORD Blog (and maybe the WORD) plans to test the boundaries of: Academic Freedom. Free Speech. The First Amendment.

SPJ Student Journalism Contest Deadline

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

By Lauren Rochester
Please mark your calendars and submit your best work from 2010. The Mark of Excellence Awards deadline is January 26.

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It’s Been One of Those Semesters – 4

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Part 4 of 4

I’ve decided on a succinct wrap-up to this matter.

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Crisis in Journalism: A Microcosm – Part 4 [End]

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

The battle in D:F/M over the direction of the journalism curriculum (reflecting the many conflicts of the internecine war of several years also ongoing in D:F/M) forced this writer into a publish or perish mode. This series is one of the results.

The Usual Suspects

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