Flying used to be an adventure. You got dressed up and the entire family went somewhere. It was certainly better than piling in the family station wagon with a dog, a bird, a turtle or two, a dog and a sister. But today, it's now 6:30 p.m. I started working my way home from the East Coast...
[caption id="attachment_835" align="alignright" width="346"] Heather Nagel, Sarah Nichols, Jeff Browne, Bradley Wilson, Mark Newton at the First Amendment Center in Nashville, Jan. 4, 2014.[/caption] At the 2014 midwinter meeting of the Scholastic Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication,college educators, college media advisers and leaders in scholastic journalism education sat around in...
CLICK HERE for published version in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services [caption id="attachment_835" align="alignleft" width="216"] Journal of Emergency Medical Services[/caption] Even at the starting line, it is evident that providing pre-hospital healthcare is not a goal of organizers of the Hotter ’N Hell Hundred race in Wichita Falls, Texas, the largest sanctioned century bicycle ride in...
With Cheryl Pell and Nick Mrozowski, I helped to write these guidelines for the Journalism Education Association’s Scholastic Press Rights Commission. I invested time helping to revise the guidelines JEA originally adopted a statement on digital manipulation more than a decade ago because, quite simply — it’s outdated. It refers to darkroom skills that few students have any...
This is a test of the emergency broadcast system....
[caption id="attachment_835" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="TSA agent at left doing nothing with four other long lines. Notice four other TSA agents standing around doing nothing."][/caption] There are few organizations that are as mis-managed as the airlines that fly the skies, the skies formerly known as "friendly." Well, the Transportation Security Administration is just as mis-managed. It's just...
CLICK this link or the slide above to see the top entries from this winter's conference. At this winter's Association of Texas Photography Instructors conference at the University of Texas at Arlington, some 300 photography students, photojournalists and artists alike, spent three days competing in contests and attending classes on everything from making a cyanotype to...
// 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 section and now move on to the data-analysis section....
[flagallery gid=1] 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...
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...