I love the academy. I love having smart conversations with my colleagues and students. I love seeing young people’s eyes opened to new ideas and a critical perspective on all manner of topics and issues. I love seeing older students who return to school and find a new or refreshed love of learning. I am a vocal proponent of the enduring value of higher education for all who choose to pursue it. [Read more…] about Journalism Notes: On-the-Job Training
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Journalism Notes: Afflicting the Comfortable
Image: Journalists’ Memorial, Newseum, Washington DC
Adding to the 11 journalists who have died in the line of duty this year, NPR photojournalist David Gilkey and his interpreter, Zabihullah Tamanna, were killed June 5 when their Humvee, part of an Afghan army convoy, was hit by rocket propelled grenades during a Taliban ambush.
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Journalism Notes: Loss, lessons as newspaper folds
If you happened to read my post two weeks ago about collaborative accountability, then you may remember that I wrote: “Here at home, The Tampa Tribune and the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times) continue in their protracted battle to hold onto turf in the almost anachronistic two-newspaper town.â€
Last Tuesday that fight ended when the Tampa Bay Times purchased The Tampa Tribune for an undisclosed sum, marking the end of a 121-year run for the acquired newspaper. The two papers had been locked in competition since 1987, when what was then known as the St. Petersburg Times expanded across the Bay to court readers in the larger Tampa metro area. [Read more…] about Journalism Notes: Loss, lessons as newspaper folds
Journalism Notes: Collaborative Accountability
The Gannett Company made an offer of $815 million Monday to buy the Tribune Publishing Company, which owns The Chicago Tribune and The L.A. Times, along with a handful of other papers, including the Orlando Sentinel just down the road from us here in Tampa. [Read more…] about Journalism Notes: Collaborative Accountability
Journalism Notes: When Words are Unwise
The Columbia Journalism Review runs a regular weekly section called The Lower Case, in which they highlight “headlines editors probably wish they could take back.†These humorous examples of unintended meaning and odd juxtaposition make for a fun, quick chuckle at how sometimes things don’t quite come across the way we mean them to. [Read more…] about Journalism Notes: When Words are Unwise