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Uh, maybe this is what’s wrong with journalism today
I ran across a story about a journalism student at Missouri who was arrested for assaulting a professor in a computer lab. Seems the student, Jay Dee Bush, brought a…
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Didn’t Larry Summers get fired for this?
Kansas University School of Journalism Dean Ann Brill had this to say about why 70 percent of her school is made up of women students: ?I?m sure there are a…
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UNCG losing ‘teaching power’
I’m also having trouble seeing the point of today’s N&R article on the effect budget cuts will have on class size at UNCG, other than to air more complaints from…
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A whole new (journalism) world
Jon Ham has a new Media Mangle column over at Carolina Journal Online today. The subject? How the web is changing not just journalism but journalism education and job placement.…
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A modern journalism curriculum
Steve Boriss offers a journalism school curriculum for a new age. My favorite courses are: The Role of the Press in America, which will “analyze Thomas Jefferson’s wishes that newspapers…
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Fake News Network
The plants at the last CNN debate are growing like kudzu. It is getting hard to find someone who isn’t a political operative. CNN has about 48 hours to come…
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That next crop of journalists
Mainstream journalism is in the worst shape it’s been in since maybe when “The Yellow Kid” was still on the comics pages. Take, for example, the Colorado State University college…
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Do we really need journalism schools?
Jonathan Last of the Weekly Standard thinks not. Read his Wall Street Journal article here. Great concluding paragraph: If America’s universities were providing students with adequate academic instruction, instead of…
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Re: Sources
Paul, I like what my journalism professors said on the subject of anonymous sources – never use them.
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Up For Grabs
Who wants to guess which liberal journalism school will pick up this old dog recently released from the pound?