Hear that?
That’s the sound of thousands of college students exhaling as finals week draws to a close. After a weekend in Jersey, I’ll be back in Philadelphia with the following tasks on my plate:
A new Temple-News.com: at the Temple News we have been quietly working on a few changes to our site. If all goes [...]
Category Archives: College
Sat
Dec
15
15
My winter break to do list
Wed
Dec
05
05
Call B.S. then get a job
Robert Niles over at the Online Journalism Review wrote an excellent post about journalism students and why “fake” news shows matter.
In summary, he said that the reason people enjoy The Daily Show and The Colbert Report is that they have the balls to call political and governmental figures on their BS. This is, in part, [...]
Tue
Dec
04
04
Mark Deuze speaks at Temple, watch the videos
Today, I had the pleasure of hearing one of the bloggers I read speak today. What was better is I got paid for it.
Mark Dueze , media theorist and writer of Deuzeblog, stopped by Temple Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab (where I work) to speak to the students and to promote his new book MediaWork. [...]
Sun
Nov
04
04
Why Journalism students need to be selfish
There as been a lot of buzz around the media-journo-blogosphere lately about the demands placed on young journalists. As someone who is graduating (hopefully) in May, allow me to give an idea of my “strategy” for the upcoming job search: be selfish.
First, we must see that there are several Pros and Cons to our [...]
Tue
Oct
23
23
Going to the NCMC conference in DC? Me too.
From Thursday to Sunday, Washington D.C. will be play host to all college media types at the National College Media Conference. Unfortunately, I can only make it Friday. So right after my Thursday classes I’m going to take the long (and freakin’ expensive) journey down 95 to our nation’s capital. If any one who reads [...]