Archive for the ‘Journalism Education’ Category
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Was race a factor in the death of NYPD Officer Omar Edwards?
Possibly.
Was Officer Andrew Duton acting like a racist? Trash that question. Better ones are: Does he live in a racist society? Was his fatal mistake the result of his growing up and living in a racist society? What was his mindset at the moment he squeezed off several shots? Would he have shot a white man, woman or child under similar circumstances?
Who the hell is capable of answering such questions considering the epistemological challenges, regardless of the torrent of news reporting as well as commentary manipulated to look like news reporting?
No one.
Google, this date, listed 1,184 links to news stories about Omar Edwards’s slaying. Yet, every sane New Yorker, however, knows the answer to this one: When was the last time a black NYPD officer mistakenly shot a white police officer under similar circumstances?
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Tags:Al Sharpton, American racism, Andrew Duton, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights Movement, Department of Journalism and Mass Media, Doomsday Clock, Four Barnacles of the Apocalypse, Highland Park New Jersey Police, Jersey City New Jersey Police Department, New Brunswick New Jersey Police Department, New York Post, NYPD, Omar Edwards, racial profiling, Rutgers University, Time magazine
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
I inadvertently discovered this info about Meredith Deliso and posted on Hunter-L, the College Listserv for general communication:
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Tags:AMSE, BPEF, College Prowler, Hunter College, Hunter-L, Meredith Deliso, SPJ, Student Writing, The WORD
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
This is a quickie alert because I’m trying to wrap up my semester and have been waylaid with last minute stuff. More later about NAM and its June 4-5 convention. Needless to say, NAM – thanks to Jonathan Mena, Kisha Allison, Jacqueline Fernandez and Eunji Jang – really admires Hunter students and does a lot to support them.
On with the quickie:
OUTSTANDING PRINT, WEB AND BROADCAST REPORTING
ATLANTA – New America Media  the nation’s largest association of ethnic media outlets, today announced winners of its National Ethnic Media Awards honoring exceptional contributions to journalism by members of the ethnic media.
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Tags:Ethnic Journalism, ethnic journalism awards, Eunji Jang, Jacqueline Fernandez, Jonathan Mena, journalism, journalism awards, Kisha Allison, New America Media, New America Media
Posted in I Didn't See This on the Evening News (A Work in Progress), Journalism, Journalism Education | Comments Closed
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Feature Writing, Spring 2009.
Email sent to my Feature Writing students after the Thursday, April 30 class:
Andrea Leon convinced me that I missed the big picture and that she has a story that no journalist, pro or student (in recent memory), has regarding Sharpton. So, I would really appreciate it if everyone in class would send her three or four sentences regarding their likes and dislikes about Sharpton. Try to be specific about why you like or don’t like or respect or disrespect about him.
Please let her know if you can use your name or not in this special she’s working on.
For pedagogical reasons, I will offer a brief recap and opinion at the beginning of class because the tiff illustrates some journalistic matters that can’t be taught via book/class and have to be learned via real-world experience.
Thanks,
gm
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Tags:Al Sharpton, journalism, news reporting, Student Journalism
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
While my department dillydallies over its future, I’m exploring new ways to teach. That means a lot of field testing. The latest: Visiting the MET Sunday, May 24. Armed with a Panasonic Luminix DMC-LX3 point-n’-shoot. For now, I want to keep things simple: Pictures of MET visitors taking pictures.
Going to the MET was a friend’s idea.
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Tags:4 Barnacles of the Apocalypse, digital photography, H1N1, MET, museums, Nikon D300, Panasonics DMC-LX3
Posted in 30-40P, Dogfighting in the Department of Chimera, Journalism, Journalism Education, Photo Journalism | Comments Closed
Monday, May 25th, 2009
Because I was so wrapped up in trying to get my students credentials for the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver in August, and getting them prepped once they were notified by New America Media that three were going, and trying later for a WORD presence at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis (my trying was not as serious nor as successful as my efforts for the DNC in Denver) and then the Presidential Inaugural in D.C. (which they accomplished by themselves), I had slacked off a lot.
And I am still playing catch-up.
Tags:2009 Presidential Inauguration, Democrat National Convention, Republican National Convention
Posted in Ford Foundation Grant, Journalism Education | Comments Closed
