Posts Tagged ‘Hunter College’

The Denver Trip Still Resonates

Monday, November 10th, 2008

A writer for Hunter’s alumni magazine is working on an article about my students trip to Denver to report on the Democratic National Convention. I’m not sure when it will be published but I thought I would publish the questions she asked of me via email and my responses. I’m still working to document the trip so responding to the query was beneficial for me. And it might be a decent reading for anyone interested in innovative ways of teaching undergraduate journalism, especially in light of this economic crunch that could seriously defer students’ plans to attend graduate journalism schools.

 

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The 14 Journalists – including 4 from the WORD – Sponsored by New America Media to …

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

… attend the Democratic National Conventions are:

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“I started the journalism school at Columbia University last week and …

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

 … it looks like I will have a very busy year. Right now the first class is a three-weeks intensive reporting training class and while my reporting professor was describing the class I couldn’t help but remember the hardest class I took at Hunter: Advanced Reporting!

Aida Alami, Hunter alumna, former WORD writer

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The WORD’s Getting Ready for the Democratic National Convention

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Correspondents’ Profiles:

The two WORD members are seen here at their second meeting to prepare for the convention.

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Aida Alami …

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

… is an Hunter alumna who founded the printed WORD, generating a lot of attention at its upstart (but it crashed and burned after she graduated). She is also a former online WORD writer. She just notified me that she has been accepted by the graduate journalism program at Columbia University. She is one of those Hunter alumnae and alumni who is always passing on great tips and contact information to me to be passed on to other students. She would blush at the following: We had interesting clashes over issues journalistic when she was a student leader.

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Big Apple Learning to Respect Rights of Photographers And Filmmakers (Thanks to the NYCLU)

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

This information was originally published in the WORD,  but a student – Gresham Gregory who does reviews for the WORD and is involved in all manner of multimedia – insisted that the message needed to be disseminated on a grander scale. So, it was posted on Hunter listservs and now here. Also, I realized because of Gregory, that this info could be important for those students [of all ages] coming to the Big Apple with their cameras. At the bottom of this message, are important links.

Briefly:

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