‘Clean Out Your Inbox Week’ was last week, but it’s never too late to try to battle excessive e-mail
I almost missed “Clean Out Your Inbox Week.” That’s because the announcement didn’t come as an e-mail. I read about the event in a news story. If I’d received the info in an e-mail, I would have known it much sooner. That is if I could find that e-mail in my inbox. Marsha Egan, author […]
So what can you learn about magazine management in Books-A-Million and Borders that you can’t learn in a classroom? Lots. When Linda Hallam told me that she and her Magazine Management class were going on a field trip to local bookstores, I told her, “What a great idea.” Linda is a doctoral student in the […]
Speaking of technology changes in the media industry and how college curriculum should be changing to address those changes… The big news in technology today is Apple’s announcement of the iPad. About the size of a sheet of paper (8 1/2″ x 11″) and the width of a magazine, the iPad is very portable but […]
The Town Hall Meeting’s panel discussion began with two questions from the moderator. 1) What does it mean to be a professional journalist and who will be the professional journalists in the future. For the most part, the panel agreed that who a professional journaist is will expand as more individuals will be working as […]
I was interested in hearing what my colleagues on the panel and I would say. The future of journalism is digital — and journalism now is digital. You don’t need to wait to take college courses to learn technology. Take courses online (newsu.org and lynda.com), read a book on a software application, work on it […]
Tomorrow evening a special event is being held for our college — a Journalism Town Hall Meeting. Students in the campus chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and staff members of The Fine Print have organized what they hope will be the first of several town hall meetings. The topic for tomorrow’s panel discussion […]
Even though I do find Carole Rich’s Writing and Reporting News to be a very effective textbook — and so do the students (see previous post) — I do have a few suggestions for improvement. One is the book cover. Designing a cover for a media textbook is a challenge, as so many different media […]
I was walking across the stage in the auditorium before class when I heard a student say: “I love this textbook.” Needless to say, that caught my attention. I turned and saw two students on the front row looking at the course textbook — Carole Rich’s Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method. “I really […]
An interesting old media/new media story for me today. I find my copy of this morning’s Gainesville Sun in my driveway — soaked. The paper was in one plastic bag, but the bag had ripped when the paper was thrown onto the driveway and then had landed in a large puddle of rainwater. I called […]
Mark Goodman (Knight chair for Scholastic Journalism at Kent State) and Megan Fromm (doc student at the University of Maryland) talked about the history of the Student Press Law Center. And both have been a part of the SPLC history. Mark was the SPLC executive director for more than 20 years — starting six weeks […]
Julie Dodd 