Disastrous.
These classes weren’t as organized as they should have been (too many departmental distractions for the instructor) and too many students in the poorly under-enrolled classes weren’t prepared, that is, their introductory news classes hadn’t prepped them for advanced courses. That’s been happening a lot.
Final Grades
A+ (1)Â
A Â (1)Â
B+ (3)
B Â (4)
B- (2)
C+ (1)
C Â (3)
Again, another semester showing a paltry number of A students. I’m not sure why, though there were B+ students who could have earned higher grades.
The award by the Society of Professional Journalists honors public service journalism collaborations that include ethnic media in order to explore and expose an issue of importance to immigrant or ethnic communities in the United States. Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, who was mentioned or featured in articles written by WORD writers who toured her newspaper, Nowy Dziennik, located in mid town Manhattan, produced a two-part series about New York’s Polish immigrant community for WNYC, New York Public Radio: “Feet in Two Words: Greenpoint Brooklyn.
The second part in the series, “Asbestos Workers Who Toiled Near Ground Zero Sick 6 Years Later,†focused on Polish immigrants living and working in New York. For the report, Kern-Jedrychowska teamed up with WNYC reporter Fred Mogul, who reports on health issues. They told the story of unionized Polish asbestos workers who were assigned to clean-up duties near Ground Zero.
Former WORD writer and copyeditor Katherine Santiago, who recently graduated from Columbia University’s graduate journalism school, was selected for a Dow Jones editing internship. She recently completed the first phase of the internship which required her to bivouac at Temple University in Philadelphia and is now at the New York Times. “I have a Times ID and an email address – I’m very excited about the little things, and, oh, we (two other interns) ran into Arthur Sulzberger Jr. on Monday during a tour of the corporate offices, and I met Bill Keller.”
Wednesday, May 7: 21-1. A Second Referendum: The Ewenian legacy continues. Academic departments get the chairs that they deserve.
Apologies for this cryptic message. It will make sense later this fall.
They hit New Hampshire running, arriving Monday, January 7, in South Boston, via Amtrack, and then hopping a bus ride about an hour later to Manchester where they were hoping to catch up with members of the Independent Press Association of New York (soon – we’re talking days – to become known as the New York Community Media Alliance) which had arrived about an hour before them.
Grade Distribution, MEDP 292 – AKA Basic Reporing – Fall, 2007:
A’s (2)
A- (1)
B+ (2)
B- (3)
F (3)
IN (1)
WU (1)
This class requires out-of-class interviews for articles that must be submitted for publication in the WORD at hunterword.com. Its publishing imperative causes course requirements and demands and expectations to be higher than the other MEDP 292 classes. Students who earned Bs in MEDP 292 have said that this class required more effort than many of their other classes, but not appreciably more, just more than students were accustomed to doing. It has, however, helped many students to earn internships and jobs at some of the best news media in the country.
The WORD’s senior producers Allen and Mena, the only undergraduate student journalists at the event, give a play-by-play of the evening.
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Also try here for the podcast: at Hunter.
“Hunter is in an enviable position compared to most journalism programs. Its location in New York, its access to ambitious students, and its excellent faculty have enabled it to come very far already. With strong leadership, greater pedagogical definition, and additional resources, it has the chance to become one of the best undergraduate journalism programs in the country.”
New America Media Executive Director Likes the WORD
May 11th, 2008Sandy Close, Executive Editor and Director of New America Media, said, in so many words, in a conversation at the New York Times building in New York City (of course), May 8, that she really liked the WORD (because of its student writers learning and reporting* about ethnic, immigrant issues) and that she wished other colleges repeated the experiment.
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