Andrew Beaujon
Mar. 1, 2013
10:18 am
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 20, 2013
12:11 pm
Indiana Public Media |
Save Ernie Pyle Hall
In her "State of the Campus" address, Lauren Robel said
bringing four schools under one roof makes sense, Stan Jastrzebski reports: "I have concluded that the programs have a bright future and will best serve students if they are combined into a single School," she said in the speech. The proposal calls for combining the schools of journalism, communications, telecommunications and film studies.
The study of journalism on this campus is 100 years old, and the practice of journalism is critical to a working democracy. But the field of journalism, in particular, has been the subject of numerous recent calls for renewal, from a major Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education to an Open Letter to America’s University Presidents from the leaders of six major foundations supporting journalism education, insisting that journalism education needs reform.
Robel said she's "making available Franklin Hall, at the gateway to the campus, to house this combined school." The j-school is currently housed in Ernie Pyle Hall, and a Facebook campaign aims to save it from becoming "
a visitor's center, a bookstore or a burger palace."
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 18, 2013
5:15 pm
Student Press Law Center |
The Stylus
The Stylus, the student newspaper at the State University of New York at Brockport, whacked a hornets' nest when it asked the student government's business manager about a
small amount of money that appeared to have gone missing, Sara Tirrito writes:
Last month, Stylus staff noticed that $5.03 was missing in an accounting of money that the paper had fundraised for the Red Cross, [Stylus Editor-in-Chief Cassandra] Negley said. Stylus Business Manager Lois Caldwell and Negley then asked Student Government Business Manager Kathy Yarid, who could not explain the discrepancy.
After her discussion with Stylus staff members, Yarid called Caldwell and threatened that “there would be hell to pay” if her name appeared in the paper, Caldwell said. (more...)
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Feb. 5, 2013
12:33 pm
The Oracle
The University of South Florida's student newspaper The Oracle is no longer allowing email interviews, except under rare circumstances.
In a letter to readers Monday, Editor-in-Chief
Divya Kumar said an increasing number of sources are requesting email interviews in hopes of having more control over their message.
As a newspaper, is it our job to provide readers with the truth, directly from the source — not from the strategically coordinated voices of public relations staff or prescreened e-mail answers.
We don’t think these responses provide our readers with the unvarnished truth, and we will no longer include them in our articles at the expense of compromising the integrity of the information we provide. University departments do not have one, centralized voice, but rather are made up of a multitude of diverse perspectives.
Kumar alluded to the value of face-to-face interviews and phoners, and pointed out that the truth isn’t always eloquent.
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Jeff Sonderman
Jan. 23, 2013
1:06 pm
The Boston Globe is giving iPads, projectors and free Boston Globe digital subscriptions to local public school classrooms in a digitally reimagined version of the Newspapers In Education program.
A major goal of longstanding NIE efforts has been to hook young readers on the print habit by dropping off free newspapers in schools and incorporating their content in lesson plans.
But that logic has faltered in recent years, the Globe's Robert Saurer told me.
"We kind of walked away from NIE a little bit -- we didn't know what to do with it. We didn't really believe that a 10- or 15-year-old reading print in school is going to continue on later to be a print reader in their 20s and 30s," said Saurer, who is director of customer experience and innovation. "But a digital Globe reader in schools today might, in fact, turn into a digital Globe reader in their 20s and 30s."
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Andrew Beaujon
Jan. 7, 2013
3:50 pm
Indiana University |
Indiana Public Media
A combined School of Communication, Media, and Journalism would acknowledge that "compartmentalized, traditional disciplines are no longer best in all cases for preparing students to participate meaningfully in our contemporary world," says
a proposal before Indiana University Bloomington's provost, Lauren K. Robel.
Bloomington Herald-Times reporter Mike Leonard writes that the new school would "initially consist of five departments including journalism, telecommunications, emergent media arts, cinema and media studies, and communication and public culture." (
Leonard's story is behind a tight paywall; IU professor Owen V. Johnson
posted the text on Facebook.)
The journalism school is currently outside the school's College of Arts and Sciences. IU professor Mike Conway was part of the committee that wrote the proposal and says the combined school
would add, not subtract jobs: "If anything we've been told that we would be hiring, that we'd be bringing new people into this because of the excitement and the areas that we want to go to."
Related:
Emory University plans to close its journalism program
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Craig Silverman
Jan. 7, 2013
9:16 am
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Jan. 7, 2013
5:39 am
While many recent changes in journalism have led to budget cuts and layoffs, others have created new opportunities — to tell stories in nontraditional ways, develop different skills, and guide the industry in promising directions.
Now more than ever, young … Read more
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Mark Briggs
Dec. 19, 2012
6:45 am
I was honored to represent the U.S., the Poynter Institute and KING Broadcasting Co. at the Colloquium on Future Global Communication and Journalism Education held Dec. 15-16 at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The first session featured five international speakers — … Read more
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Dec. 4, 2012
6:09 am
During a live chat, Sara Quinn and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Katy Culver talked about how journalism educators can adapt their curricula to reflect changes in the industry.
They offered practical tips and answered a range of questions, including these:
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