Journalism

Grant To Keep Journalism Students Moving Forward

The Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation have announced plans for a three-year journalism initiative designed for undergrads.  The program is designed to help journalism students adapt to changes in the field of commun

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Ripe Produce: Must Read Maryland Stories
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We know you’re all out of school, but we’re going to attempt to keep you abreast on Terrapin news this summer with a new feature: Ripe Produce. Similar to Fresh Cream, the post will feature local University of Maryland news that’s “ripe for the reading.” Here are si

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Quinnipiac Awarding Journalism...Really?
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Fred Friendly is known as one of the greats in Journalism. Friendly is most noted for cohosting CBS’s See It Now with Edward Murrow and later becoming the president of CBS. For those who don't know much about the journalism field, he's the man George Clooney portrayed in Good Night and Good Luck.

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Latest comment by aquamarine: Go Quinnipiac!
UC Berkeley Through the Eyes of Conservative British Scholars
John Cleese minus humor and charm = writers of The Economist

The Economist, Britain's economic periodical that flaunts ads for fancy watches and internships at banks you've never heard of, wrote a little something-something about Berkeley the other day.

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Top Graduate Schools for Journalism

When ABC News partnered with several journalism programs around the country, OTR readers voiced their concerns over many of the nation's leading J-schools not being represented. This list should fare much, much better! (Or not.)

Latest comment by Anonymous: @ Anonymous: There is an undergraduate major in Public Affairs Journalism at OSU, but no graduate program. It should be noted that the undergrad program suffers from the lack of priority and research dollars a graduate program would bring.
When Did Journalism Classes Get Out Of Control?

From what I remember, journalism classes were supposed to be about writing and the news. Not exactly a stimulating class, but someone has to get the job done.

 

But it seems that something happened this semester with journalism courses. OTR tipsters have been reporting out

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The first and best JSchool in the world wants to know... what can they do to make the journalism school better/different for the next 100 years? So here's some ideas (feel free to send them your own, as Acting Dean Esther Thorson prompts in her video above):

- Finish the new journalism building and g
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The Religion of Tom Brokaw

I don’t mean that he has a religion. I mean that he is a religion. Leading up to Tom Brokaw’s appearance on the USC campus for the President’s distinguished lecture series, students prepared piously – reading the newspaper more in one week than they had in the past year, looking up youtube vid... MORE »
In the News: "Quotegate"
Dean-turned-Dictator Lavine has found himself in quite the pickle. He has yet to respond to the allegations made in a Daily column regarding some funky anonymous quotes in a letter he wrote for the Medill alumni magazine.

Students, faculty, alumni and the journalism community all want to know: what gives La... MORE »
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Dean or Dictator?
President Bienen recently announced that Medill's Dean Lavine will continue to "blow up" the journalism curriculum all the way to 2009, much to the disgust of the venerable old school professors and students who are spending thousands of dollars now learning how to shoot shitty homemade videos.

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Latest comment by DJ PM: To be clear: the two basic Medill lab classes used to be called "Editing and Writing the News" and "Newswriting."

Now they are called "Reporting and Writing across platforms" and "Multimedia Storytelling for the Web."
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