Bleeping News Media Bloopers! Can I get an Amen?

October 4th, 2008

From mediamatters.org:

With little more than a month to go before Election Day, voters need the news media to cut through the clutter of the candidates’ competing sound bites and spin. They need clear and concise explanations of what, exactly, the candidates would do if elected. And they need the media to provide this every day, not just once in a while. Unfortunately, they aren’t getting it. Instead, they are faced with countless news reports that simply repeat charges and counter-charges or obsess over minor details while failing to provide the big picture.

 

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October 3rd, 2008

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“An Invitation to Young Journalists” – From The Columbia Journalism Review …

October 1st, 2008

… via the SPJ First Draft blog. CJR writes that a “plague” of newsroom buyouts and closings is sweeping newspapers throughout the country. “Yet at the same time …

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I Should Have Been Smokin’ By Now

September 30th, 2008

October 3 2008 Journalism, Broadcast and New Media Conference and Career Fair

CUNY students are invited to meet dozens of recruiters in broadcast, print and the web offering information on internships, jobs and careers. The Economist, The New York Times, Adobe, Inc., are among the media companies that will be represented .

The CUNY Job fair is just around the corner and I’m still slow publishing stuff. I whine. Anyway, below are the suggestions that I provided my students.

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The WORD & UWIRE

September 29th, 2008

As part of an experiment this academic year, the best of the WORD articles this semester [all WORD articles are good but some are better than others] will be syndicated via UWIRE which says it has more than 800+ affiliate members, nationally and internationally.

First up is by Elizabeth Leonard, one of several that will be published in the coming days. One-hundred Hunter students were interviewed about their presidential preferences.

Later in the semester, the WORD will start submitting video and audio clips on a range of topics. Jonathan Mena, Jacqueline Fernandez and Kisha Allison are showing the way.

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Some Polls While I’m Warming Up for the Next Writing Cycle

September 20th, 2008


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The Nation’s Student Columnists Have a Lot to Say About Sarah Palin

September 13th, 2008

 

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The Convention Ends, the Semester Begins: An Instructor’s Lament

September 8th, 2008

I had to send the following email to the WORD Special Correspondents who were in Denver August 24-28. They are so hot, like heat seeking missiles, that I got wrapped in the wakes of their planning strategies to try to continue reporting on the election like they did in late August. Uh oh.

I can’t:

From Left to right: Kisha Allison, Jonathan Mena and Jacqueline Fernandez.

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Police/SWAT: An Ubiquitous Presence at the Democratic Convention

September 4th, 2008

Special Correspondent Jonathan Mena, armed with digital camera and video equipment, pursued the police as the they pursued protesters exercising their First Amendment Rights. This video blog is part of a major project that he’s working on.

 

 

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Back from the Democratic Convention, Getting Ready for Classes But …

August 31st, 2008

I will be writing a lot about the Democratic Convention even though it ended August 28 and the Republican event is about to begin. There was so much going on and I’m not just referring to the political wheeling and dealing and the pageantry. I’m going to provide a kind of behind-the-scenes look. Journalism technology, for example, was on awesome display.

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