This historic moment included three WORD senior editors: Jonathan Mena, Jacqueline Fernandez and Kisha Allison. Read about it here.
Down Memory Lane: First National Ethnic Media Network to Cover the 2008 Democratic National Convention
December 25th, 2009A Flurry of Posts in the Waiting While I Finish Off Final Grades for This Semester
December 23rd, 2009Hoping for this weekend to get started. Lots and lots and lots. Meanwhile, this latest phishing is an interesting snack though not imaginative.
How I Learned to Bite the Bullet and Let Them Eat the “F” Without So Much As a Blink of an Eye – Sort Of
December 15th, 2009Several years in the making.
If institutions of higher learning desire academic honesty, they must be institutions of obvious integrity, places where students, faculty, and administrators seek truth and wisdom and technical expertise in an environment marked by trust, honesty, respect, fairness, responsibility, and courage. — Peg Hogan, Former President, The Center for Academic Integrity
Eunji Jang
December 9th, 2009
File Photo: On assignment for a story.
Interns for New America Media. Has made a connection with a New York Times reporter who is drawing on her skills and talent so that he can write and report about the Korean community in metropolitan NYC. A Times immigration beat. This is not a freebie. She does translation and interpretation and is getting valuable field and professional experience and making serious career connections.
She also has been getting write-ups in Korean news media [like this one] for her work with New America Media.
Sandy Close, the Executive Director of NAM, has said more than once that Eunji Jang is vital to NAM’s goals to develop better coordination with Korean news media in the United States. Jang travels the country for NAM when slaving over a full-time course load and, of course, publishing in the WORD.
Savvy Journalism Advice for Savvy Journalism Students – Intro
December 7th, 2009I’m working on grad recommendations but wanted to know what to tell undergraduate students who don’t graduate for a year or two. So, I contacted former WORD writers and asked if  grad-j programs were worth the money and what undergrad students should be doing now if they are interested in j-careers in this period when journalism is undergoing revolutionary change and the job market sucks.
The responses are just beginning to pour in from around the world and will be showing up in the WORD and WORD blog very soon.
To: Louis Mader, Director, Department of Public Safety, Hunter College
December 1st, 2009Normally, I would follow up an email like the one below with an email or a phone call or a visit if I didn’t get a response. There have been times, though not recently, when I would post on Hunter-L if I didn’t get a sufficient response. Hunter-L being a main campus listserv for information and scandal and mischief.
However, these aren’t normal times (the NYCLU has recently filed a lawsuit against the NYPD for its stop-n-harass SWAT tactics of hundreds of thousands of People of Color in NYC annually) and I didn’t get a response and I’m feeling, sniff, a bit sensitive.
So (not personal, just business):
A Phishing Episode: D.C. Teachers F.C.U.
November 23rd, 2009The real D.C. Teachers Federal Credit Union indicates that it has been scammed and is being scammed, like the message below:
Notification From D.C. Teachers F.C.U.
Dear Customer,At D.C. Teachers Federal Credit Union, the highest responsability to our customers is the safekeeping of confidential information you have entrusted to us and using it in a responsable manner. A fundamental element of safeguarding your confidential information is to provide protection against unauthorized access or use of this information. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with the federal guidelines to guard your nonpublic personal information against unauthorized access.
At this time we need you to confirm your e-mail address with our existing database. As soon as our database will be updated we need to make few important announcements to our customers so please update your contact information with no delay.
Update Your D.C. Teachers Federal Credit Union Online Account
Sarah What’s-Her-Name
November 22nd, 2009Just finished watching the Sarah What’s-Her-Name segment of CNN’s Reliable Sources, an excellent show for a genre purporting to broadcast insightful commentary and analysis and news about news. Sometimes, however, the difficulties of producing a regular schedule of quality programming for this genre is evident – slow news week, bad news week – and banality can rule at times.
Nothing insightful this date, November 22. Nothing new, nothing gained.
Lots missed?
A Phrase in Need of an Attribution
December 2nd, 2009Whose lament (below) is this?
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Tags: Bartlett's Quotations, familiar phrases, unfamiliar phrases
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