Category Archives: College

The 1 thing every journalism professor should do

4/16/2008 – 10:55 pm

…is give class credit to any student who gets published during the semester.

I had a former professor and Inquirer writer Tom Gibbons speak my “Journalism and Trauma” class (one of my favorites, taught by Pulitzer Prize winner Jim MacMillan). In the lecture, he said he often gave students extra credit for getting published.
Why isn’t this […]

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Confessions of a Journalism Student

4/4/2008 – 12:14 am

I have rewritten this post three times.
Every time I thought I had an original point about j-schools someone beat me to it, dangit. If you have been scanning your feed reader lately, you probably noticed a flurry of posts directed at students with advice on school, and linking that advice to the future of […]

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