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, [...]
Category Archives: Newspapers
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Call B.S. then get a job
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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. [...]
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If I ran a newspaper I’d….. (#1)
I often have random thoughts on what I would do if I ran a newspaper or magazine. So I decided to put them out there for all to see, criticize, and comment. This is the first of what is sure to be a long scatter-brained list.
…make all of my staff (that’s reporters, designers, [...]
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How to use Facebook to leverage your college newspaper
I know what you might be thinking: “If I hear anything more about college and Facebook I’m going to chop my ears off and go into PR.”
Reality is, Facebook is the new beer. Actually that is an understatement. I’m pretty sure that the top two things that would piss my generation off the most [...]
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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 [...]