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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Sandhills internships available
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Intern in DC - Washington, D.C.
Get an internship in Washington, D.C. this fall or next spring as part of the Political Journalism Track of Capital Semester, sponsored by The Fund for American Studies in partnership with Georgetown University.
The institute provides a 15-week academic internship program for students who want to explore journalism and communications careers. It also offers 15-week programs for students interested in public policy, international affairs, journalism and communications and the non-profit sector.
It provides hands-on professional journalism experience for 25 hours/week with a full-time academic experience at Georgetown University, which could transfer the credits earned to Doane.
You would be placed with news and media organizations or communications and public relations firms. You would earn 12 credit hours. You would be housed in furnished apartments in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
In addition, you'd hear guest lectures, tour top D.C. sites, such as the Newseum, and interact with professionals.
More than half of the students receive full or partial scholarships for the program.
If you're interested, let me know. Students I nominate receive special admissions and scholarship consideration.
Applications will be accepted until Jun 1 for the fall and Nov. 1 for next spring. Apply early. Students applying by March 1 and October 1 will receive a 5 percent tuition discount.
The institute provides a 15-week academic internship program for students who want to explore journalism and communications careers. It also offers 15-week programs for students interested in public policy, international affairs, journalism and communications and the non-profit sector.
It provides hands-on professional journalism experience for 25 hours/week with a full-time academic experience at Georgetown University, which could transfer the credits earned to Doane.
You would be placed with news and media organizations or communications and public relations firms. You would earn 12 credit hours. You would be housed in furnished apartments in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
In addition, you'd hear guest lectures, tour top D.C. sites, such as the Newseum, and interact with professionals.
More than half of the students receive full or partial scholarships for the program.
If you're interested, let me know. Students I nominate receive special admissions and scholarship consideration.
Applications will be accepted until Jun 1 for the fall and Nov. 1 for next spring. Apply early. Students applying by March 1 and October 1 will receive a 5 percent tuition discount.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Example of publishing administrators' salaries
The University of Washington student paper reported comprehensively about the salaries of the university's top administrators, including the president, who is the second-highest paid university president in the nation, after a press release touted the administrators' decision to donate 5 percent of their salaries to student scholarships. Should Doane College media pursue a story about administrators' salaries? After all, the information is public record.
Student press victory at Virginia Tech
Certainly this marks a victory for the student press, but what exactly should student media do about anonymous posts that are obnoxious, rude or downright disgusting? How do you think student journalists at Doane should react to these types of posts?
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Higher education reporter needed
The Lincoln Journal Star is seeking a higher education reporter to cover the University of Nebraska and other smaller schools in and around Lincoln, probably including Doane College. You have to be able to break news and write compelling features.
The ad says the paper wants a reporter who can think fast and file Web posts and daily stories on deadline. It also wants someone who can produce weekend and enterprise pieces that examine in-depth the issues facing education.
The position mostly is a Monday-Friday job, but you would have to work nights and weekends as needed. The ideal candidate owns a bachelor's degree in journalism and at least two years of experience at a daily paper. But that shouldn't stop seniors from applying. You may not fit their "ideal" qualifications, but you could be the best candidate who applies.
The ad says the paper wants a reporter who can think fast and file Web posts and daily stories on deadline. It also wants someone who can produce weekend and enterprise pieces that examine in-depth the issues facing education.
The position mostly is a Monday-Friday job, but you would have to work nights and weekends as needed. The ideal candidate owns a bachelor's degree in journalism and at least two years of experience at a daily paper. But that shouldn't stop seniors from applying. You may not fit their "ideal" qualifications, but you could be the best candidate who applies.
Education reporter needed
The Sioux City Journal, a 40,000-circulation daily newspaper in western Iowa, is looking for an education reporter. The right candidate will be able to "craft compelling education features and enterprise" as well as explain complex school budget issues. The paper covers several school districts, three small colleges and the University of South Dakota.
According to its ad, the ideal candidate will have experience with blogging, social media, multimedia and other online tools.
The paper requires one year of reporting experience, but I'd urge current seniors to apply anyway. Exceptions can be made, you know.
The paper wants you to apply online. You may also send a cover letter, resume and samples by e-mail to Editor Mitch Pugh or by snail mail to Pugh at Sioux City Journal, 515 Pavonia St., Sioux City, Iowa, 51102. He will not take phone calls.
According to its ad, the ideal candidate will have experience with blogging, social media, multimedia and other online tools.
The paper requires one year of reporting experience, but I'd urge current seniors to apply anyway. Exceptions can be made, you know.
The paper wants you to apply online. You may also send a cover letter, resume and samples by e-mail to Editor Mitch Pugh or by snail mail to Pugh at Sioux City Journal, 515 Pavonia St., Sioux City, Iowa, 51102. He will not take phone calls.
News reporters, editors still needed
Check out this quote from a Washington Post reporter, first blogged by Romenesko: "The media landscape is obviously changing in huge ways, and it's hard to know how it will continue to evolve with the technology," says Washington Post reporter Steve Fainaru. "But the demand for good information is not going to end, and we're increasingly presented with new ways to get information and deliver it. Also, the situation is so much more competitive that the media itself is more accountable, which is long overdue."
Despite the gloomy picture now, there will be jobs in journalism and media - they'll just take different forms than the jobs that were available when I broke into the business 34 years ago.
Despite the gloomy picture now, there will be jobs in journalism and media - they'll just take different forms than the jobs that were available when I broke into the business 34 years ago.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
What Journalists Need to Know About Google Buzz
Check out this link about Google Buzz and what it might mean for journalists and journalism. Please note that Google, already a monster in the tech world, could corner the mobile advertising world if the Buzz is accepted. What Journalists Need to Know About Google Buzz
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Don't get in a twit
Check out this essay from my former boss at the Lakeland Ledger in Florida. He was the editor who took that paper in the 1970s, when no one was doing it, from an afternoon to a morning paper - and he did it successfully. His success there led him to Minneapolis where he prospered and led the Star Tribune to a Pulitzer Prize. He has a lot to say in this piece about Twitter and its place in journalism: http://cronkite.asu.edu/mcguireblog/?p=158. Plus, he's a Detroit Tigers fan.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Type a movie
Check out this link - http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2010/02/xtranormal-in-ur-text-making-it-video/ - to see a cool way to create an animated movie simply by typing. Are there any applications for this technology that we could use to report news?
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