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As I was sitting around with some friends last night crunching some numbers, it dawned on me how boring pouring through databases as part of the content analysis section of my dissertation looked. Now, however, I’m pretty much done with the data-gathering [...]
Since the spring of 1998, for the last 14 years, I have had the honor of editing the magazine for the national Journalism Education Association — Communication: Journalism Education Today. But to be realistic, as with any project of this magnitude, this isn’t a one-person show. People like Connie Fulkerson and Howard Spanogle have been [...]
The College Media Advisers, Associated Collegiate Press and College Broadcasters all met in Orlando this week. It was an intensive week for the students, advisers and Texas Rangers. At least two of the groups came out ahead.
Each fall and spring as part of the convention, we host an on-site photography “shoot out.” It’s a point [...]
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As we approach the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, everyone is taking some time for reflection. Towns are honoring their first responders. Survivors, family members and friends of those killed and thousands of others are visiting the new memorials around the country. [...]
Cary Area EMS celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. The reason for the organization’s existence is legacy around the station. In 1971, a furniture truck struck a 4-year-old boy in Cary. Tragically, he died after waiting 45 minutes for an ambulance to arrive from Raleigh. That fall, a group of citizens met to form the [...]
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2011 COLLEGE YEARBOOK IMAGES
I always spend a better part of my summer traveling around the country teaching some of the most talented high school and college students in the country. This week was no exception.
I spent the first part of the week in Austin teaching [...]
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At his funeral in Brooklyn, April 27, family and friends of Chris Hondros remembered him as a photojournalist with a passion for documenting the lives of people in conflict all over the world. Hondros has covered many major conflicts around the world, including wars in Kosovo, [...]
Just as people like to talk about the death of the newspaper, they like to talk about the death of the yearbook. Hogwash. It’s sure in everyone’s best interest that the yearbook survive.
Regardless of whether the staff members are future engineers, poets, doctors, lawyers, police officers or teachers, these schools are doing their staff members a favor by teaching them teamwork, leadership skills and time management as they take new online technologies, including social media, and use them to their fullest extent.
Padmé: [to Bail Organa] So this is how liberty dies… with thunderous applause.
At North Carolina State University early on the morning of Nov. 4, 2010, students stood up to protest the writing of some hateful speech on the University’s Free Expression Tunnel. One artist had drawn some art of a person with dark skin. What [...]