Barbara Selvin is an assistant professor of journalism at Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism. She teaches reporting and newswriting, community journalism and grammar, and a course she created on the changing news industry. She’s also the school’s internship coordinator. Before becoming an educator, she was a reporter for Newsday and New York Newsday, covering real estate for the New York edition and health care for the Long Island flagship. She blogs about teaching journalism in the age of the Internet at www.jrnteaching.wordpress.com.
The theme for the homecoming parade was board games, and Denise Civiletti, the publisher of RiverheadLocal.com, moved into the street to get a shot of the senior class’ Candyland float as it rumbled along Osborn Avenue in Riverhead, N.Y.… Read more