Author: Ryan Sholin
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SJSU takes in students displaced by Hurricane Katrina
On Friday, the San Jose Business Journal reported that the CSU system is throwing open the doors to any students from Gulf Coast states displaced by Hurricane Katrina, and to California students who had planned on attending schools in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama. SJSU President Don Kassing sent out this message late Friday. [tags]SJSU[/tags]
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SJSU 35 – Eastern Washington 24
I am now officially enrolled at a university with a winning college football team. I can’t wait to go to a game. Check out Journalism dept. undergrad Jason Fithian’s photos and commentary from Saturday’s 35-24 win over Eastern Washington. [tags]SJSU[/tags]
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Give It Away, Part 2
We went ahead and made a donation to the Red Cross, but we also gave to Best Friends Animal Society. Best Friends runs a huge animal sanctuary in Utah and works hard to educate people about spaying and neutering their pets. Now they’re on the ground in New Orleans, helping to rescue animals off the…
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Give it away
Given what I’ve written today about the media’s framing of different disasters and the importance of keeping events in perspective as they relate to each other, I want to go ahead and say that I’m closely following the real and ongoing human disaster in New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast. If this…
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I Heart The BBC & A POV Roundup
KQED radio (88.5 FM) out of San Francisco is my public radio station on the San Jose side of “the hill.” Two nights a week now, I drive home to Santa Cruz late enough to catch the BBC World Service report – it’s all international news, all the time. I love it. Not only because…
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Business 2.0 – Magazine Article – Printable Version – The $50 Million Giveaway
3 million bucks for a worldosphere style CJ site Business 2.0 – Magazine Article – Printable Version – The $50 Million Giveaway
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Really Good Technology
I’m quoted in Mansi Bhatia’s article in this semester’s Washington Square, a publication of the SJSU office of Communications and Public Affairs. I assume the magazine goes out to alumni, and is not to be confused with Access, the Journalism & Mass Communications department’s student-produced magazine, which is available all over campus. The Washington Square…
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Trickle-Down Technology
In discussions about international communication, I often hear the argument that neither this “blogging” thing in specific nor the internet in general are not on the radar in places like Africa, where they “don’t even have phones, much less internet access” (or so goes the myth). The people who expound on this sort of angle…
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Michael Yon : Online Magazine: Gates of Fire
Freelance journalist in Iraq Michael Yon : Online Magazine: Gates of Fire