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Category Archives: Chapter 6
Virginia Tech Shooting Drives News to Social Media
When the story broke this afternoon about a shooting that has reportedly left two dead on the Virginia Tech campus, two things happened. People started remembering the horror of the 2007 shooting on the campus that left 33 people dead, … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 1, Chapter 10, Chapter 12, Chapter 6
Tagged public relations, social media, twitter, Virginia Tech
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
How Can You Write a Better Blog? Some great suggestions from Dan Frommer, author of the tech blog SplatF. Here’s the Cliff Notes version: Accuracy, readable, skeptical, attributed, context, critical but fair, mechanics, original, new. Why Does Scooby-Doo Need People … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 6, Chapter 9
Tagged Because I can, blogging, ethics, legal issues, politics, questions
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Tweeting, Tweaking & TNT
Three bits of media news that are worth posting but don’t really go together. Associated Press to reporters: Don’t break news on Twitter; break it on the wire The Associated Press has reiterated it’s policy of never having reporters break … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Chapter 9
Tagged apple, basketball, social media
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Patriot-News Devotes Front Page to Editorial on Penn State Scandal
The Harrisburg Patriot-News ran a front-page editorial on Tuesday calling on Penn State University President Graham Spanier to resign over his failure to “do what is right – for his school, or more importantly for the alleged victims of coaching … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 14, Chapter 6
Tagged ethics, newspapers, opinion writing
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Coverage of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer received national attention in 2010 with her promotion of the state’s controversial “papers please” immigration bill. This week, she was back in the news for rejecting a congressional redistricting plan put together by a state commission. … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 14, Chapter 6
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News about News
Chicago Defender facing financial trouble One of the nation’s oldest and most storied black-owned papers has laid off its top editors and is behind on its rent. Disney tells ABC affiliates not to talk to Johnny Depp about his new … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Chapter 9
Tagged news, newspapers, television
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Writing Issue-Oriented Feature Stories
This blog entry is really for my feature-writing students, but the rest of you are welcome to read some great issue-oriented feature stories: Omaha World-Herald: Living The Gluten-free Life Living with celiac disease in the heartland. Washington Post: Loving the … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 6, JMC 305
Tagged feature writing
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
Should ESPN have fired Hank Williams Jr. for comparing Obama to Hitler? Or comparing Boehner to to Netanyahu? Jon Stewart says no: “Have you met him?” BTW, Williams’ comparison of Obama to Hitler is a great example of Godwin’s Law. … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 14, Chapter 6
Tagged apple, ethics, mobile media, mobile phones, newspapers, questions
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Updated – Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
How do journalists handle telling the story when politicians and scientists conflict? There are always multiple sides when it comes to politics. But when you move into science, not all sides are equal. Finding a path to reporting on politicians … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 13, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 6, Uncategorized
Tagged apple, legal issues, questions
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Media news at AEJMC
Hi, everyone from AEJMC in Sunny St. Louis! If you are here and want to say hello, send me an e-mail to rhanson40@gmail.com. In the mean time, here’s a bit of what’s happening currently in media news: Tyler Perry, of … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 13, Chapter 6, Chapter 9
Tagged AEJMC, alt-press, apple, legal issues, newspapers, television
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