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Grad school update

October 12, 2009

Remember when I went to graduate school at San Jose State University to get an M.S. in Mass Communications?
Well, I finished. Here’s the proof, which arrived in the mail a few days ago:

Grad school update: I think I’m done

April 8, 2009

For those of you keeping score, I started blogging, more or less, when I started graduate school at San Jose State University back in early 2005.
As of Monday, April 6, 2009, I’m finished with my M.S. in Mass Communications at SJSU’s School of Journalism & Mass Communications, after turning in my project report and presenting [...]

Spartans, you rock my world

January 14, 2009

I spotted a tweet today from Steve Sloan that reminded me there was some sort of awesome road trip going on, wherein San Jose State student journalists are on their way to the inauguration by way of the South, reporting on landmark events in the civil rights movement.
Their reports are being run on CNN — [...]

Suzanne Yada recommends you grow a pair

January 1, 2009

From Suzanne Yada’s resolutions for journalism students in 2009, this bullet point:
“Grow some cojones.
Let me level with you. The world doesn’t need more music reviewers or opinion spouters. The world needs more people willing to ask tough questions. The first step to reversing journalism’s tarnished image is to have the guts to dig for information [...]

If you’re not playing, you’re just working.

November 16, 2008

Daniel Sato is one of a circle of photojournalists I met at San Jose State University while I was spending a lot of time there working on my (still-but-not-for-long) unfinished graduate degree.
Now that whole crew has spread out from the Bay Area across the country and in at least two cases, into Southeast Asia.
Here’s Daniel’s [...]