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Which student journalist should go to Poland?

Admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:26:41 +0000

Go to the Huff Post and Vote!

Student wins $24,000 to study journalism

Admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 00:55:00 +0000

Students who are vying to be their generation’s next top journalists were honored Thursday at the Detroit Free Press High School Journalism Program’s annual awards banquet. Since 1987, the Ford Motor Co. Fund has awarded a $24,000 college scholarship to a Detroit high school senior in the program who intends to pursue a career in journalism. This year’s winner is Rokeyta Roberson, a senior at Renaissance High School in Detroit. Read more here

Cazenovia College graduates will be addressed by award-winning journalist from “60 Minutes”

Admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:52:19 +0000

Emmy Award-winning journalist Michael Radutzky, senior producer of the CBS news program “60 Minutes,” will address graduates at Cazenovia College’s 185th Commencement May 15. Read more here…

Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship Accepting Applications for 2010

Admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:20:49 +0000

According to the press release posted on Newswise:

“The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is now accepting applications for its annual Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship program, which will be held from September 12-18, 2010. Established in 2000, the program is designed to introduce science journalists to the interdisciplinary and wide-ranging fields of oceanography and ocean engineering.

Through seminars, laboratory visits, and brief field expeditions, Ocean Science Journalism Fellows gain access to new research findings and to fundamental background information in engineering, marine biology, geology and geophysics, marine chemistry and geochemistry, and physical oceanography. Topics range from harmful algal blooms to deep-sea hydrothermal vents; from seafloor earthquakes to ice-sheet dynamics; from the ocean’s role in climate change to the human impact on fisheries and coastline change; from ocean instruments and observatories to underwater robots…

Read the full release here…

Texas Coach applauds theft of school newspapers?!

Admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:05:21 +0000

A college football coach ‘deep in the heart of’ Texas is backing football players accused of removing every copy of a student newspaper from racks around campus because of a front-page article about teammates being arrested on drug charges, (according to the police report)…

The coach is Guy Morriss, who also coached at Kentucky and Baylor and played 15 seasons in the NFL with the Patriots and Eagles. “I’m proud of my players for doing that,” Morriss said, according to an incident report. “This was the best team building exercise we have ever done.” Read more about this clown here…

Journalism group hosts free program for teens

Admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:49:51 +0000

The 2010 Multicultural Journalism Workshop for high school students is seeking applicants for its free summer workshop in San Diego. The program takes place June 20-30 at Point Loma Nazarene University. The application deadline is April 7. Read more here

University of Georgia is looking for “excellence”…

Admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:09:46 +0000

The George Foster Peabody Awards program, founded in the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, distinguishes outstanding accomplishments in public service by television stations, radio stations, networks, producing organizations, individuals and the World Wide Web. “There is no best documentary, best entertainment, best news,” said Horace Newcomb, director of the program. “It’s all compared against every other entry.” Read more about it at The Red & Black

Anonymous comments might cost VA College Paper it’s funding…

Admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:35:11 +0000

That’s right! The Collegiate Times is the student-led campus newspaper for Virginia Tech, but it’s not owned by the students, it’s owned and operated by Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech Inc., a totally independent entity. The Commission on Student Affairs (at VTech) notified the college newspaper Monday that it had been “deemed in violation of the university’s principles of community” for allowing “anonymous online comments” to be posted to the paper’s Web site.

In a letter posted on Feb. 8, officials laid out a plan to “cut university funding to the paper, the yearbook and other publications owned by EMCVT” and ban student organizations from using university funds to buy advertising in the paper, a move that is not only incredibly stupid, but could effectively shut down the paper. So now the paper is considering legal action. What’s the moral of the story here?

College papers should take note, make sure your “Owners” aren’t out to wreck havoc on your paper, if you dare to allow anonymous comments on your Newspaper’s site, which seems to be a popular trait on oh, 50% of the sites & blogs in the country!? Maybe the Commission of Student Affairs at Virginia Tech could benefit from a crash course on the sophisticated “Internets” in the meantime?. Read more about it here…

Nevada journalism school hires an Ethics professor

Admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:27:21 +0000

Caesar Andrews, a former executive editor at the Detroit Free Press, has been hired as the visiting chair for ethics and writing at the University of Nevada, Reno journalism school. Read about it here…

University of Florida Journalism Program chooses Macs over PC’s

Admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:17:16 +0000

According to The Gainesville Sun:

“The University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications has taken sides in the Mac vs. PC debate, if the college’s new requirement is any indication. The college will require students to buy Mac computers starting in the fall, participants in a UF panel on the future of journalism said Tuesday. Students will also be required to buy a software package, audio recorders and cameras able to shoot video, said David Carlson, director of college’s Center for Media Innovation and Research. As reporters become more mobile and self-reliant, he said, such technology is increasingly needed for reporting.”