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Still Learning from Columbine
When I started teaching 14 years ago, I was concerned that I was too close to my students' ages for them to respect me and take me seriously. I was 26 years old and working in news when I was recruited for my teaching position. I worried that I didn't have enough experience, despite my master's degree in higher education. I also didn't feel done … [Read more...]
Quotable: T.S. Eliot on Editors
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What Student Journalists Are Thankful For
Student journalists are thankful this holiday season for the First Amendment... and pie. Oh, and coffee. Did I mention great pens... and pie? I asked student journalists what they are most thankful for this week. The most common responses were press freedom and people—their family, friends and student media colleagues. I am thankful for the … [Read more...]
What Student Journalists Want from their Advisers
It's difficult to know if you're doing a job correctly or well if you aren't really sure about that job's description, but that's exactly the situation most collegiate media advisers are in. I assume that most media advisers have a better idea of their job expectations than I do, but I think we're all kinda stumbling in the dark. I am a faculty … [Read more...]
Quotable: Snowden on Government Secrecy
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Lessons from Orlando: Covering the Pulse Nightclub Shooting
Tragedies resonate with people for different reasons, but they almost always impact us all. That's what I thought as I listened to three journalists talk about their experiences covering the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. A man killed 49 people and wounded more than 50 others June 12 when he opened fire inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in … [Read more...]