Archive for the ‘Journalism Education’ Category

What’s Better Than a New Year’s Resolution?

Saturday, January 4th, 2014

A New Year’s Hope List!
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I Love Leonard Levitt’s “NYPD Confidential” Column

Thursday, December 26th, 2013

Kelly Whines It Up

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December 23, 2013 – If, as Gilbert and Sullivan wrote, a policeman’s lot is not a happy one, pity poor Ray Kelly. After 12 years as the longest-serving and most powerful police commissioner in New York City history, Kelly feels he is departing One Police Plaza misunderstood and unloved. Read full article here.
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A Riposte to Colleague Bernard Stein’s Things Are Great With D:F/M Journalism – Part I

Wednesday, December 18th, 2013

Serious journalism and media students on this campus don’t realize, or maybe “don’t imagine” is a better phrase, with whom they are competing  for the best internships. It’s not just students from City University of New York or NYU and Fordham and other local higher ed institutions but The Ivy League, The Big Ten, Rutgers, The Big 12 and more. That’s because New York City is the nation’s media mecca and attracts the attention of fortune hunters from around the country if not the globe.

That realization caused this writer to connect early on with organizations like the Center for Communication, The Business Press Education Foundation, The American Society of Magazine Editors, New America Media, The Independent Press Association (now defunct), The Robert McCormick Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The Foreign Press Association of New York, the Poynter Institute and numerous others.

It also was the primary reason for starting the WORD. So, when a Colleague trumpets thef message (see below) celebrating D:F/M’s debauched journalism effort, I struggle to suppress the scream.

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Living and Learning Through Eye Openers

Wednesday, December 4th, 2013

I went into journalism to fight for justice and encountered this eye opener at my first newspaper  job in Rochester, New York, quite a while back: Women couldn’t be police reporters because the editors – white, male – insisted the beat was too dangerous for them to be in the streets; Italian Americans were not allowed to write metro news and were consigned to the sports section; blacks were not allowed in sports and Spanish Speaking people were not allowed in the building, let alone the newsroom.

And so I wanted to teach college where I thought I could continue a good fight. And, of course, that led to another eye opener.

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Center for Communication Did Great Things for Hunter Students …

Wednesday, November 20th, 2013

 

Center for Communication Annual Luncheon November 11, 2013

Center for Communication Annual Luncheon November 11, 2013

… Until …

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Center for Communication Annual Luncheon November 11, 2013

Monday, November 18th, 2013

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I Took a Bow

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Riposte: Re Kelly Anderson & Bernard Stein

Sunday, September 1st, 2013

Back in March, 2013, I wrote the post below on Hunter-L. It is a factually correct, straight forward description of the inner workings of the Department of Film and Media Studies. It was revelatory about D:F/M academic debauchery. Colleagues Kelly Anderson and Bernard Stein responded with posts on Hunter-L. I was surprised by their lack of candor in a public forum. And I will need to do another post to address Colleague Stein’s comments.

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Princess Hee Haw: Trash Talking

Friday, August 30th, 2013

Pissed off by what seem like never ending revelations on Hunter-L, a main Hunter College listserv, and department memos echoing the listserv postings about the debauching of the Department of Film and Media Studies, a Colleague posted the following listserv comment, referring to me, the primary protagonist for disclosure and transparency.
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Which D:F/M Colleague Or Colleagues Ripped Off Or Tried to Rip Off Projects Intended for Students?

Sunday, August 18th, 2013
D:F/M Colleagues.

D:F/M Colleagues.

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Lest We Forget …

Sunday, August 4th, 2013

Retired Professor Peter Parisi: Self-Anointed Chaperone for the Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism says he believes in news censorship.

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