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As the potential handful of readers of this blog know, I’m a recent graduate of Northampton Community College’s journalism program.
And I’ve also blogged about what I think of the journalism program at NCC. Quite frankly I think I’m lucky to get out of there with any idea of what online news could become.
So [...]
Whenever someone asks me what I’m studying I cringe as I manage to squeak out the word — “journalism.” They freeze up, mention something about how they don’t read the newspaper or think the media is dying while criticizing me.
Here’s the kicker, I’m not cringing at journalism, I’m cringing at people who don’t know the [...]
Today I graduated from Northampton Community College with my Associate of Arts degree in journalism. Now while all that may be exciting — just like my acceptance to Temple University so I can continue studying journalism this fall — the really exciting part came when I opened my Edirol R-09.
Yes, my ultra-geek tendencies took over [...]
Last week I came across a post from Dave Lee about journalism and shorthand. He describes how learning shorthand is under debate in UK j-schools, where the skill appears to have a strong following. In fact one of the comments berates any journalist who doesn’t know a form of shorthand:
Anyone who thinks it is possible [...]
Today I ran across an issue I don’t see a lot of people discussing in regard to online journalism: reporting ethics.
Jim Killam’s last post over at the Innovation in College Media blog discusses the ethical issues of reporters that would produce both written copy and potential multimedia stories via the web.
A brief summary of the [...]
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