The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications has already moved to update the journalism curriculum, according to an article today in the student newspaper, The Daily Orange: The main changes taking place affect Newhouse’s “spine,” or core curriculum, [professor Michael] Schoonmaker said. One of those changes will be the addition of another introductory course all [...]
This week is a bit hectic, with a one-hour guest lecture, a two-hour workshop, and a lunch presentation (tomorrow), plus a committee meeting and a faculty meeting, all in five days. This is on top of my regular teaching, and prep for teaching, and the ever-present grading backlog. So, not to complain, but I’m going [...]
Update (April 6, 2012): Recording phone interviews: A solution that works I’ve been asked dozens of times, “What do you use to record phone interviews?” My answer: A device I bought at Radio Shack for about $20 many years ago. This plugs into both the phone line (at the wall jack) and any recording device [...]
The Hearst Journalism Awards Program has been called the Pulitzer Prizes of (U.S.) student journalism. I can’t say whether that is an exaggeration, but the awards do come with generous money prizes for the individual students and the schools they attend. Journalism educators generally agree on the prestige of the Hearst awards. I was looking [...]
On Tuesday I had a pair of guest speakers — Melissa Lyttle (photojournalist) and Lane DeGregory (reporter) — talk about how they reported The Girl in the Window for the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times. My course is Reporting and Writing for Online Media (syllabus here), but I told our guests I wanted them to focus [...]
As I’ve been writing about j-school curriculum here this week, I’ve also been pondering methods that work well in teaching. This is my 10th year as a professor (crazy!), and like most college educators, I learned on the job. The best way to learn is by doing. That’s what I’ve concluded, and I know it’s [...]
I struggle with how to teach data reporting. I want to give the students an introduction to how to do it, and how to make it work online (conceptually, for the audience, I mean), but I only have four weeks. I want to make sure what I give them has a practical application, but I [...]