Journalism School – Page 16

Protection coming for California college media?

Apr 19, 2006

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In today’s Spartan Daily, the student newspaper here at San Jose State University, former Daily executive editor John Myers reports that a California legislator has introduced a bill in the state assembly that would make it more difficult for university officials to censor campus media outlets. Myers wrote that Leland Yee, the sponsor of the…

Northwestern J-School dean takes the long view

Apr 18, 2006

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Ryan Sholin

in Education, Media, Technology

In this Q & A, John Lavine lays out “Medill 2020,” a plan to develop the Medill J-School at Northwestern University. Medill seems to be doing all the right things: Planning to get students out of their silos and into classes that teach them storytelling, ethics, and basic journalistic principles, regardless of their medium of…

SJSU blogger shout out time

Apr 16, 2006

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Ryan Sholin

in Education

There are a bunch of bloggers these days in the SJSU journalism program, and although I don’t regularly point out the ones who aren’t writing about media much, I do catch plenty of what they write in the feed vacuum known as my aggregator. So without further preamble… Andrew the “Soapbox Prophet” hasn’t posted since…

A lesson in covering breaking news on campus from the Daily Iowan

Apr 14, 2006

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Ryan Sholin

in Education

The first thing I thought when I heard a tornado hit the Iowa City and the University of Iowa last night was “I bet the Daily Iowan has video up.” Sure enough, the student newspaper has a package of stories, plus some fantastic tornado-at-night video, including shots of students watching and describing the scene. The…

A quick riff on objectivity

Apr 13, 2006

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Ryan Sholin

in Media

I’m not going to go at length about the End of Objectivity, or even the perils of objectivity, although I should get around to posting a little literature review and presentation I wrote on the topic awhile back. But here’s a good concrete example of how awkward it can be sometimes to include “both” sides…

Talking points for a visit to Journalism 132

Apr 12, 2006

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Ryan Sholin

in Education

[I’m sitting in on Prof. Greene’s information gathering classes this morning…] Hi everyone. I’m supposed to be providing some constructive criticism on your blog posts, but the odds are pretty good that I’ll be going off on a tangent or three, so here are links to a few things I figure I’ll be rambling on…

A pair of photojournalism events at SJSU

Apr 11, 2006

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Ryan Sholin

in Education

If you’re a photojournalist, an art photographer, or a J-School student interested in multimedia journalism, you should check out Dai Sugano’s talk Thursday April 13th at an SJSU NPPA event. Sugano shoots for the San Jose Mercury News and works on a small team of photographers, editors, and web producers putting together multimedia presentations at…

Convergence Conference 2005: Unconvergence at BYU

Apr 9, 2006

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Ryan Sholin

in Newstangle

Podcast and PowerPoint from a conference last October. Profs from BYU explain how and why convergence didn’t work so well at their J-School. Convergence Conference 2005: Unconvergence at BYU