Archive for the 'Journalism' Category
Unexpected experience
My TFAS journalism professor, Richard Benedetto, repeatedly told our group we should start at a small newspaper. He expounded on the benefits of establishing a smaller source network where you can personally know those you’re reporting on, greater opportunities to publish and get the big stories. I didn’t doubt him at the time, but I [...]
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Tags: Choices, lessons learned, media coverage, musings
On the job
The last you heard from me, I was in the transition week between college and full-time employment. I was all geeked out about starting my job; bragging about how lucky I was to find a job in journalism, particularly a full-time reporter position and kind of waving off all of my obligations.
Now I’m over a [...]
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The great beyond
Two weeks ago, I was celebrating my last class of my undergraduate career. Last week, it was my last exam. And then four days ago I walked across the steps in front of Kresge Gym, accepted my diploma, and drove away from Albion for the last time.
I still don’t think it has hit me that [...]
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Tags: celebration, jobs, Journalism
About the Pleiad
For those of you who are not on Albion’s campus, I’m writing this post to serve as a forum to discuss the changes to the Pleiad–starting next year, it will be one of the first college papers in the GLCA to move exclusively online. I wrote a column announcing the switch in this week’s edition [...]
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Tags: Journalism, online journalism, The Pleiad
Starting with an idea
At last night’s CollegeJourn chat, Suzanne Yada asked what our ideal start-up publication would look like.
My immediate reaction was this:
community based reporting, ties experienced reporter with “citizen journalist” to create in-depth web content
funded by the community
I know, I know, shame on me for lapsing on proper grammar and capitalization. Double boos warranted for not even [...]
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Tags: local coverage, online journalism, start-ups, teaching
IMHO
I have always had opinions, lots of them. And I’ve been willing to share them with you face to face, free of charge. The only problem with that method of delivery is that it really limits the people who can benefit from all the wonderful thoughts and advice I have to share.
Not anymore. No one [...]
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Tags: blogging, columnist, jobs, Journalism, musings, online journalism, opinion, Sanilac County News
The road ahead
Well, after a couple months of scrambling and weighing options, I know the basic direction that I’m headed after I walk across the stage and leave Albion for good come this May. Come next fall, I’ll be moving into a new dorm on a new campus as I pursue my teaching certification at Saginaw [...]
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Tags: future, Journalism, musings, Teach for America
Xampping it up
After a couple of meetings and numerous e-mails, I convinced the new EIC and the advisor for the Pleiad to let me move the newspaper’s Web site to WordPress last week. YAY! Huge improvement over FrontPage. The only downside is that I am the only one who can create the template for the site, and [...]
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Tags: LinkedIn, online journalism, Pleiad, webwork, WordPress
Accessibility
Earlier today, I found myself chatting about my future with a nurse who was drawing my blood. I’ve known her almost as long as I can remember, and after I told her that I was planning on going in to journalism, she had this to say:
Everything’s moving online. It’s not like you can just put [...]
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Tags: LinkedIn, musings, online journalism, research
Devolution
As I’ve sat in front of my computer for the last week and a half, fiddling around with my new copy of Dreamweaver, I came to a sad realization.
I let myself become a coding dinosaur.
Seriously. I’ve devolved.
Oh, I kept up on the basics of WYSIWYG designing–my various jobs on campus have required a lot of [...]
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Tags: coding, CSS, HTML, Journalism, musings
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