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• Who scotched the tale?

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 119
  By Joel ThurtellYou never know who scotched the tale,Only that it didn’t run.No space! No space!You know that’s bull.You never know why the yarn got spiked,Only that it didn’t run.No space! No space!What a load of crap.One day your story was the greatest thing in News.Talk of the City Desk,Headed for ...
  1 day ago

• Class party

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 119
  By Joel ThurtellI’m still amazed at The New York Times thinking they can charge me to reprint a story I wrote for their newspaper 30 years ago.It stinks.They paid me seventy-five bucks in 1979, worth $211 in 2007 dollars.How much do they plan to charge me to reprint my own words?Five hundred twenty ...
  4 days ago

• Big Ed’s ghost

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 119
  By Joel ThurtellWe at JOTR are firm DISBELIEVERS in any kind of occult happenings, yet the appearance of an e-mail purportedly from the Other World piqued our curiosity. Its claim to have come from the late Wayne County executive, Edward McNamara, by itself seemed to argue for its genuineness. Why in the world would ...
  6 days ago

• Theres no way Im going to J-school: What can I read, instead?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 638
  What books can I read that will give me some idea of what it might take for me to make my living as a writer or journalist? Before you ask, yes: I know whats happening with journalism right now. Clearly, this isnt the decade to be thinking about making a living with writing of any kind, but when I think about some ...
  6 days ago

• Varnishing Detroit’s ‘Free’ Press

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 119
  By Joel ThurtellThere was a time back in the 1980s when The Detroit Free Press killed not one, not two, but THREE editorial cartoons lampooning then U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese.Bosses were afraid those unvarnished drawings might prompt the AG to kill the coveted Gannett/Knight-Ridder Joint Operating Agreement ...
  6 days ago

• Vanity publishing and The NY Times

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 119
  By Joel ThurtellFar as I can recall, I started writing my book, Shoestring Reporter, 28 years ago. I’d just landed a job as a full time staff writer with the South Bend Tribune and was quite full of the fact that I’d done it without darkening the doorsill of a single journalism class.My book was [...]
  1 week ago

• J-School Rappers Rhyme Against Fox News

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 815
  Normally I don’t like making fun of Columbia journalism students, because it’s like shooting fish in a barrel, if the barrel were full of Columbia journalism students. And that would be very wrong. But when I saw this video, I couldn’t resist. It’s of a panel, in which students are pointing out how ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thou shalt not

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 119
  By Joel ThurtellIf it wasn’t evident in my essay, “Watching them die,” about the Associated Press reporter who witnesses executions in Texas, I am opposed to capital punishment.But as I later reflected on my reaction to the New York Times article about AP writer Michael Graczyk’s “lonely beat” on Texas’ ...
  2 weeks ago

• J-School State of Mind: Columbias Finest Throw Down The Sick Rhymes [VideUhOh]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 864
  Our J-School embed can only help us so much; he cant provide us with the brilliance that follows, in which you watch a class of Columbia J-Schoolers rapping over Jay-Zs "Empire State of Mind" about...
  2 weeks ago

• Get Yourself J-Schooled

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 483
  If you’re reading this, you probably know that newspapers are going through some rough times. Who needs “Rock of Love” when all the tension and nail-biting drama can be found in the newspaper industry? In fact, Berkeley’s J-School (Graduate School of Journalism, for the uninitiated) is sponsoring a series of ...
  2 weeks ago

• My advice to journalism students

  
  Invisible Inkling — Authority: 446
  I’ve been through most of this before, either in blog posts or in person, whenever I get the chance to talk with journalism students , but it’s worth repeating. A few tweets this week seem to have proved that, so I’m putting this updated compendium of my advice together for posterity. My advice to ...
  2 weeks ago

• What I Learned in J School

  
  Brooke Geery — Authority: 114
  My college years were mostly spent at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, ( pictured above from my Polaroid phase ), which was most importantly, in the shadow of Mt. Baker. I will be completely honestly, the proximity to epic shredding was way more a factor in my decision of where to go to college than ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Objectivity’ vs. truth

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 119
  By Luke WarmProfessor of Mendacity, University of MunchausenToday, I’m going to talk about telling really huge whoppers and getting the media to go along.Myra Megahertz, Dean of Manipulation here at U of M, asked me to give this Wakeup Lecture to remind you all that while nothing is more powerful than a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Watching them die

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 119
  By Joel Thurtell I should have been stunned by today’s (October 21, 2009)  New York Times report about a journalist’s attempt at “objectivity” in the face of calculated killing, but I wasn’t. Thirty or so years working in the news industry have trained me to expect this kind of media cant.Associated Press ...
  2 weeks ago

• Should You Apply For Food Stamps? [Fear Of Falling]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 864
  Vital information for journalism school graduates: food stamps are a fun and easy way to stay alive! According to a Times City Room post picked up by NYU Local, NYU journalism grad student Ryan...
  3 weeks ago

• CBS news journalists to speak at FAMU

  
  Rattler Nation — Authority: 429
  Five dynamic and nationally-known journalists at CBS News will speak to students in the FAMU School of Journalism and Graphic Communication (SJGC) Thursday, October 22. The panel discussion titled “CBS Journalists and their Journey” is scheduled for 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Hotel Duval, Grand Ballroom. The ...
  3 weeks ago

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