Archive for the ‘Student Journalism’ Category
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
[Soon to be a Major Motion Picture — :)]
The following screed was posted on Hunter-L, a Hunter College listserv, in response to a petition posted to support OCCUPY WALL STREET. Hunter-L is used by faculty and students and staff for disseminating information and has a long history of turbulence and relevance . The petition can be found much further down in this blog.
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Tags:BIG CORPORATIONS, DEMOCRACY, OCCUPY, OCCUPY D:F/M, OCCUPY WALL STREET
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
At the J Walter Thompson agency on Lexington Avenue, 46 Street today.
The nervous energy before the start of the press conference announcing the SUS campaign to help U.S. military vets and soldiers could not be denied. And then things got serious.
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Tags:Aftertheparade, homelessness among U.S. military vets, military suicides, post traumatic stress disorder, suicidal military vets and soldiers, veteran suicides
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
Will be attending a press conference today with several students about the SUS program for a campaign to help present and former U.S. military folks dealing with serious issues.
Each day 18 current or former military personnel take their own lives. Over 2,300 active duty members of the U.S. Armed Forces have killed themselves since January, 2001.
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Tags:Veterans
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Saturday, November 5th, 2011
SUS is introducing a series of public service announcements focusing on significant issues facing U.S. military members, such as the epidemic level of suicides by active and former members of the U.S. military.
Each day 18 current or former military personnel take their own lives, according to SUS. The public service campaign will feature personal pictures and home videos provided by the suicide victims families. Over 2300 active duty members of the U.S. Armed Forces have taken their own lives since January of 2001. Listen here.
Tags:military suicides, military veterans
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Saturday, October 1st, 2011
TheWORD’s Senior Editor Colleen Siuzdak did a thorough reporting job on this article, including the only journalist thus far to interview Muslim students at Hunter about this questionable surveillance.
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Tags:Church amend, CIA, COINTELPRO, domestic spying, NYPD
Posted in I Didn't See This on the Evening News (A Work in Progress), Journalism, Journalism Education, Student Journalism | Comments Closed
Monday, September 26th, 2011
The WORD’s Senior Editor Colleen Siuzdak is running down this story first reported by Leonard Levitt on his NYPD Confidential, about New York’s Finest (several of whom have been indicted in a ticket-fixing scandal; check out NY Daily News, Your Free Press, Huffington Post, Hizb ut-Tahrir America, et. al).
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Tags:cop reporters, NYPD, NYPD ticket fixing, police scandals
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Saturday, September 10th, 2011
Several days ago, New America Media invited this writer to attend a meeting of New York City-based ethnic journalists who would be talking about their articles for the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Asked about my plans – this writer hadn’t been planning to share – he spoke in tongues, that is, his response was as articulate as a person speaking with his tongue flailing the roof of the mouth and the sides of his teeth, upper and lower. Caught off guard, he couldn’t articulate, didn’t enunciate.
What follows is what might have been said or referred to if this writer had had the presence of mind many wish for when a signature moment beckons them to rise to the occasion: From the Center for Constitutional Rights regarding a panel discussion, September 12: The 9/11 Decade and the Decline of U.S. Democracy.
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Tags:9/11, 9/11 ceremonies, American Democracy, American Freedoms, Civil Liberties
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
The National Writers Union will co-staff a picket line against Arianna Huffington, who is scheduled to appear at the upcoming National Association of Black Journalists’ convention in Philadelphia, Thursday, August 4, 2011.
Huffington is the respondent in a class action lawsuit recently filed against the Huffington Post.com, Huffington Post owner Arianna Huffington, et al, and AOL.com, Inc.
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Tags:AOL, journalists, NABJ, pickets, writers
Posted in I Didn't See This on the Evening News (A Work in Progress), Journalism, Journalism Education, State of Journalism, Student Journalism | Comments Closed
9/11
Saturday, September 10th, 2011Several days ago, New America Media invited this writer to attend a meeting of New York City-based ethnic journalists who would be talking about their articles for the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Asked about my plans – this writer hadn’t been planning to share – he spoke in tongues, that is, his response was as articulate as a person speaking with his tongue flailing the roof of the mouth and the sides of his teeth, upper and lower. Caught off guard, he couldn’t articulate, didn’t enunciate.
What follows is what might have been said or referred to if this writer had had the presence of mind many wish for when a signature moment beckons them to rise to the occasion: From the Center for Constitutional Rights regarding a panel discussion, September 12: The 9/11 Decade and the Decline of U.S. Democracy.
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Tags:9/11, 9/11 ceremonies, American Democracy, American Freedoms, Civil Liberties
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