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• How J schools can encourage innovation

  
  Daniel Bachhuber's weblog — Authority: 100
  … is a solid topic for the Poytner Chat being held this Thursday at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern . A few months back, CoPress published a video called “A Case for Innovation” : In it, we identify the historical context for the issues that a number of print publications are having today, and lay the groundwork ...
  1 week ago

• University-Based Reporting Could Keep Journalism Alive | Chronicle of Higher Education [del.icio.us]

  
  Adrian Monck — Authority: 123
  "[C]ould universities do better work in teaching and research because faculty members and students in journalism help them become more attuned to how their work plays out in public? Already, faculty members in law schools, medical schools, political science, sociology, and other fields assign the writings of ...
  1 week ago

• J-School plans to offer degrees in digital media

  
  Rattler Nation — Authority: 133
  With more and more Americans turning to the internet for their daily news, FAMU’s School of Journalism and Graphic Communication is preparing a new digital media program to train students for this cutting-edge field. The J-School has received Board of Trustees approval to initiate both a B.S. and M.S. in Digital ...
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• Business model for newspapers

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 121
  by Joel ThurtellHeard about a business model for newspapers.Goes like this: Write news, sell ads, print a paper and hawk it, mail it, put it in vending machines, newsstands and let people decide if they want to buy it.In small towns where I know the newspaper proprietors or where I visit often enough to be [...]
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• A New Way to do School Portraits

  
  Dad of Divas — Authority: 136
  This was the first year that we had to even think about the whole school portrait thing for Diva-J. What should she wear, what type of background, would we purchase additional pictures and how many, the questions were endless. When we got the pictures back, they were ok, but we are planning on retaking because they ...
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• My Times ‘beer allowance’

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 121
  By Joel ThurtellOdd situation I have with The New York Times, which wants to charge me a $520 fee for reprinting a story I wrote for them 30 years ago.They only paid me seventy-five bucks for the story.And they still owe me some beer money.It began back in my freelancing days. When I sold my [...]
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• Who scotched the tale?

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 121
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Class party

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 121
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Big Ed’s ghost

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 121
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 648
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Varnishing Detroit’s ‘Free’ Press

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 121
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Vanity publishing and The NY Times

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 121
  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 [...]
  4 weeks ago

• J-School Rappers Rhyme Against Fox News

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 803
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Thou shalt not

  
  Joel On The Road — Authority: 121
  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’ ...
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• J-School State of Mind: Columbias Finest Throw Down The Sick Rhymes [VideUhOh]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 867
  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...
  4 weeks ago

• Get Yourself J-Schooled

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 527
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• My advice to journalism students

  
  Invisible Inkling — Authority: 100
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• What I Learned in J School

  
  Brooke Geery — Authority: 110
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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