March 19th, 2009
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From: Saidi, Nicole <Nicole.Saidi@turner.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:05 AM
Subject: Signs of the Times project (re)published – thank you!
Hi there! You’re getting this note because you were featured in an interactive multimedia storytelling project called “Signs of the times.” It ran on Tuesday but there were some problems with how the interactive piece displayed on external workstations (outside our newsroom). The problems have been fixed and you should be able to see it now. Check it out, send it around and let folks know! It turned out great and I thank you all for your amazing contributions.
Thanks again, and we appreciate your contributions!
Link: Mena’s video is fourth one down on the left: Queens Hospital.
Mena can be reached at jonathanmena.nyc@gmail.com.
Tags: CNN, iReports
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March 18th, 2009
So, what do students think about this? The question to be posed sometime March 18 on Hunter-L, the College’s main listserv for general info and communication for the Hunter community, this being this New York Times article. The Big Question to be put to the students: Should I reconsider my default grade, B?
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Tags: academic freedom, college grading, higher education, learning, New York Times
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March 16th, 2009
A quickie: Not one student has whined nor snarled nor pleaded that he or she can’t or won’t do assignments because:
- the assignments interfere with his/her internship.
- the assignments interfere with his/her job.
- h/s doesn’t want to do them.
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Tags: 4 Barnacles of the Apocalypse, academic dishonesty, classroom protocol, disruptive students, students
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March 14th, 2009
WORD Writer Frankie Garcia and WORD Senior Editor/Producer Kisha Allison covered a rally and lobbying effort in Albany, March 10 to convince the legislator to repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws. They both took pictures and Allison’s planning on expanding on their multimedia reporting later this week in the WORD. Picture below was taken by Garcia.
I bet no one saw this image on the evening news, March 10, 2009
Tags: Albany, lobbying, Rockefeller Drug Laws
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March 13th, 2009
Deconstructing a Snippet of the Minutes of the December, 2008, Faculty Meeting of the Department of Film and Media Studies
[What Really Goes on Behind Some Walls of the Academy]
Morris stated that he had unresolved issues with faculty. These details were written in his group emails to faculty. Roman responded that he will follow up any complaints 
made by Morris with the Ombudsman. — Shanti Thaku, the minutes of the December, 2008, faculty meeting.
So, I put the question to the department and there was no discussion, but comments from the chair, Jay Roman; the deputy chair, Kelly Anderson; Larry Shore, former chair of the grade appeals committee and now the department’s media advisor; Tami Gold, the PSC rep at Hunter; and Steve Gorelick.
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Tags: Academic Politics, Office Politics
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March 11th, 2009
Deconstructing a Snippet of the Minutes of the December, 2008, Faculty Meeting of the Department of Film and Media Studies
[What Really Goes on Behind Some Walls of the Academy]
Morris stated that he had unresolved issues with faculty. These details were written in his group emails to faculty. Roman responded that he will follow up any complaints 
made by Morris with the Ombudsman. – Shanti Thaku, the minutes of the December, 2008, faculty meeting.
At the meeting I’ve referred to as this first blip on the radar, I revealed my contact with the New York Civil Liberties Union but didn’t reveal my contact with the National Writers Union, which had responded positively to my request for support.
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Tags: academic freedom, Academic Politics, Bob Stanley, BORG, First Amendment, grade appeals, Joel Zucker, Larry Shore, National Writers Union, NYCLU, Office Politics, SLAM, Student Press Law Center, Terminator
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March 11th, 2009
New Report and Survey Examine State of Health Care Journalism
A survey of members of the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ), conducted in partnership with AHCJ, and the report, The State of Health Journalism in the U.S., authored by Gary Schwitzer of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism, detail how the financial pressures on the media industry and the fierce competition to break news on new and expanding platforms on the Internet are affecting the quality of health reporting.
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Tags: health care journalism, Kaiser Foundation
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March 11th, 2009
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Union Square, about 6:30 p.m., across from Whole Foods. Not a particularly big rally, but definitely attention getting. March 11, 2009
A work in progress about news.
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Tags: rally, union square
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March 9th, 2009
Deconstructing a Snippet of the Minutes of the December, 2008, Faculty Meeting of the Department of Film and Media Studies
[What Really Goes on Behind Some Walls of the Academy]
Morris stated that he had unresolved issues with faculty. These details were written in his group emails to faculty. Roman responded that he will follow up any complaints 
made by Morris with the Ombudsman. — Shanti Thaku, the minutes of the December, 2008, faculty meeting.
Now, colleague Larry Shore, former chair of the department’s grade appeals committee which I had been describing in several venues “as one of the most corrupt” at Hunter if not CUNY, candidly responded to the question, “Recommend For New Business, Wednesday, Grade Tampering in F/M,” A Big Barnacle: Is a Discussion Needed?” His comments, however, never made it into the department minutes.
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Tags: academic freedom, Academic Politics, Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, First Amendment, NYCLU, Office Politics
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March 8th, 2009
The Knight News, its logo, Queens College’s Official Award-Winning Student Newspaper Since 1937, published this excellent article by reporter Jano Tantongco pointing out blistering reporting inaccuracies by New York Newsday, New York Post and New York Daily News on the arrest of Stephen Buttafuoco, a Queens College, CUNY, senior.
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Tags: Student Journalism
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“Drop the Rock!”
March 14th, 2009WORD Writer Frankie Garcia and WORD Senior Editor/Producer Kisha Allison covered a rally and lobbying effort in Albany, March 10 to convince the legislator to repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws. They both took pictures and Allison’s planning on expanding on their multimedia reporting later this week in the WORD. Picture below was taken by Garcia.
I bet no one saw this image on the evening news, March 10, 2009
Tags: Albany, lobbying, Rockefeller Drug Laws
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