Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska + Polish Daily News = SPJ’s New America Media Award

June 9th, 2008

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.

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Katherine Santiago at the Times

June 9th, 2008

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.”

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New America Media Executive Director Likes the WORD

May 11th, 2008

Sandy 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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Don’t Forget This Date

May 10th, 2008

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.

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Senior Editor/Producer Jonathan Mena And Writer/Reporter Kisha Allison at the New Hampshire Primaries

January 13th, 2008

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.

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Anecdotes of Eccentricities: MEDP 292, FALL

January 6th, 2008

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.

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Dan Allen & Jonathan Mena Report on the Nov. 29 Obama Fundraiser at the Apollo

December 6th, 2007

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.

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Sputtering Program Promises to Be One of the Best

November 28th, 2007

“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.”

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Coming Soon

October 28th, 2007

In development (but in no particular order):

– the IPPIES of the Independent Press Association of New York

– the WORD print – an independently run, student newspaper with a loose affiliation with this WORD – bites the dust

– a commentary (maybe more than one) on requests from students and former students (who were interviewed for WORD articles as long as two years ago) asking/demanding/begging that their comments in articles or the articles with their comments be deleted, expunged, disappeared because they don’t want potential employers or graduate admission committees to know that they experimented in bi-sexual fun or that they partied all night, every night, until they couldn’t distinguish between the moon and the sun or that they engaged in other forms of behavior that some might call risqué – and which definitely cannot escape the URL tenacles of Google; what to do, what to do; definitely worthy of some pondering considering the ethical dilemmas brought to bare.

Gregg Morris

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Antediluvian Thinking

October 23rd, 2007

So many students are using blogs (for commentary and opinion), myspace and facebook (to communicate), Youtube (can you believe documentaries and broadcasts), cell phones (to communicate and to make pictures and videos to disseminate) that I’m planning to revise my journalism writing/reporting courses.

I plan to add to my course syllabi that students who take my classes can learn to write scintillating and compelling commentaries and opinion pieces for their peers to review and admire as well as develop a sharper edge – a news edge – for their other media activities.

It seems to me that many students engaging those endeavors described above believe they are involved with forms of enterprise journalism or that they are involved in making news. They are most certainly involved in disseminating and receiving disseminated information in this period when the concept of news is undergoing radical change.

There was this intense discussion at a department meeting many months ago over my using the word “multimedia” for this multimedia ethnic journalism class I wanted to teach. One colleague (obviously out of touch with reality) announced that students in my reporting/writing classes should not be using recording devices because that kind of activity was reserved for a particular film/video course. As images flashed in my head of students using MP3 recorders and digital voice recorders as well as cell phones for digital imagery, single and moving, I didn’t have the presence of mind to say something witty like, “That kind of antediluvian thinking should cost you a …”

Gregg Morris

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