Here's an interesting story from the New York Times about a woman who wanted more information about a violent death in her Brooklyn neighborhood and turned to blogs when it wasn't thoroughly covered in the mainstream media.
As newspaper and TV staffs shrink, do you think people will find what they want to know by reading blogs? Do you get news from blogs?
Friday, August 29, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Your news budget
Here is a list of stories from which you'll select your top picks for class discussion on Thursday:
You are editor of the Kaimin and must select four stories for Page 1 of tomorrow's paper. From the list below, which would you choose?
Are there any you would not run at all? What other information would you want to know about these stories?
If you were news director of KGBA, which story would you select to lead your morning news broadcast?
1. Journalism students did well in recent national competitions. Kaimin editor Bill Oram won a $7,000 Jim Murray Scholarship and a $3,000 NCAA Sports Journalism Scholarship. RTV senior Caitlin Mallory won a $1,250 Broadcast Education Association Scholarship and the student documentary “Montana Journal: Where are the Alternative Fuels?” won a northwest student Emmy.
2. George Bush will deliver the Mansfield Lecture in the spring, Mansfield Center director Terry Weidner announced today.
3. A professor of geography at UM died last night on campus from what the chief of campus public safety says is a suicide.
4. More than 30 students who eat at the Food Zoo turned up at the Health Service with what appears to be food poisoning.
5. Weezy will appear in concert in Missoula on Nov. 13.
6. Five monkeys escape from a psychology lab on campus. They are still at large at press time.
7. UM Grizzly football coach Bobby Hauck said the team will put aside distractions from last season that resulted from murder charges against one player and robbery charges against four former players and will win the Big Sky conference title this season.
8. The Regents vote to add 10 credits to UM’s graduation requirements, effective with freshmen entering in fall 2008.
You are editor of the Kaimin and must select four stories for Page 1 of tomorrow's paper. From the list below, which would you choose?
Are there any you would not run at all? What other information would you want to know about these stories?
If you were news director of KGBA, which story would you select to lead your morning news broadcast?
1. Journalism students did well in recent national competitions. Kaimin editor Bill Oram won a $7,000 Jim Murray Scholarship and a $3,000 NCAA Sports Journalism Scholarship. RTV senior Caitlin Mallory won a $1,250 Broadcast Education Association Scholarship and the student documentary “Montana Journal: Where are the Alternative Fuels?” won a northwest student Emmy.
2. George Bush will deliver the Mansfield Lecture in the spring, Mansfield Center director Terry Weidner announced today.
3. A professor of geography at UM died last night on campus from what the chief of campus public safety says is a suicide.
4. More than 30 students who eat at the Food Zoo turned up at the Health Service with what appears to be food poisoning.
5. Weezy will appear in concert in Missoula on Nov. 13.
6. Five monkeys escape from a psychology lab on campus. They are still at large at press time.
7. UM Grizzly football coach Bobby Hauck said the team will put aside distractions from last season that resulted from murder charges against one player and robbery charges against four former players and will win the Big Sky conference title this season.
8. The Regents vote to add 10 credits to UM’s graduation requirements, effective with freshmen entering in fall 2008.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Welcome to Journalism 270
You'll be learning a lot this semester. Much of it will be fun and interesting, but it will also be hard work.
This semester you'll learn print journalism in the first half of the semester and then switch professors and learn broadcast journalism for the remainder. Since we'll be setting a fast pace we'll use this blog to discuss things we didn't get time to talk much about in class. You can post things you want your classmates to read, or respond to what I've posted.
Along the right side of this blog you'll find useful links to Web sites.
One of the best sites for discussions about this changing, endlessly fascinating profession you aspire to is the Romenesko blog. Romenesko is an aggregator. That means he rarely posts his own writing, but he does us all a great favor by providing headlines and links to stories about the news media. Check it out.
Your first assignment is to write your own obituary. Obituaries can be fascinating when they reveal something about a person's character. Here's a great example of one for a "gonzo street photographer."
This semester you'll learn print journalism in the first half of the semester and then switch professors and learn broadcast journalism for the remainder. Since we'll be setting a fast pace we'll use this blog to discuss things we didn't get time to talk much about in class. You can post things you want your classmates to read, or respond to what I've posted.
Along the right side of this blog you'll find useful links to Web sites.
One of the best sites for discussions about this changing, endlessly fascinating profession you aspire to is the Romenesko blog. Romenesko is an aggregator. That means he rarely posts his own writing, but he does us all a great favor by providing headlines and links to stories about the news media. Check it out.
Your first assignment is to write your own obituary. Obituaries can be fascinating when they reveal something about a person's character. Here's a great example of one for a "gonzo street photographer."
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