The webpage for the Convergence Reporting II course at Abilene Christian University
An email arrived the other day with a subject in all caps: “MARK YOU CALENDARS!” It was an invitation to something. The email had an attachment, and we were invited to open it “For you reading pleasure.” (We didn’t.) ICYMI: The New York Times begins 2018 on a sour note Another email sowed a bit of confusion. […]
Source: You, your, you’re: A typo that matters – Columbia Journalism Review
Print and audio journalism exist in the same world — but the terrain is different. Let this serve as your map.
Source: The journey from print to radio storytelling: A guide for navigating a new landscape | NPR Training
It’s that time of year again: Cupid is floating around on his cloud, bow in hand, waiting to shoot some poor soul with an arrow of infatuation.
It’s that time of year again when students become familiar with the select group of faces that cover campaign signs mounted on windows and sidewalks across campus.
Spring has sprung. The birds are chirping again. The snow of winter has melted. And flowers bloom to welcome the warm air that drifts blissfully in from the south. And social clubs turn their attention to spring rushes.
The roar of diesel engines and the pounding of a hammer – this is the sound of progress at Parker University.
Amazing, beautiful, comfortable, friendly, and warm-hearted _ these were just a few of the words used by four students from Xiangyang City Vocational and Technical College to describe the people, culture, and history they encountered on their trip to America and Parker University.
However, I liked this:
It only takes two words to sum up one of ACU’s longest standing traditions: Sing Song.
The spring semester’s Big Tuesday meeting, the day the Dean of Students explains campus rules and guidelines to Parker’s new students, was held recently in the Harris Building.
Last week, a tropical storm later to be known as Hurricane Irene, struck the east coast of the United States, and struck hard. Irene hit the coast of North Carolina Saturday, after which it began making its way 1,100 miles up the Eastern Seaboard. Many began the evacuation process well before the storm even hit land to be sure of their safety. Irene had a huge impact on the daily lives of those in the affected areas. Thousands of commercial flights were cancelled, transportation was shut down, and flooding wiped out hundreds of thousands of homes. Approximately four
Just imagine that you’re new to Parker University, or even a transfer student, and your major is education. You think about all the opportunities an education degree could take you, and all the children you can inspire along the way. But you’re also wondering, “What can I be a part of as an undergrad that can reach me closer to my goal, as well as prepare me?”
The SAEA may be your answer, and becoming a member is easy.
Once upon a time, a word was spoken, a single word, and the world of literature, of story-telling and of communication was born. Being an English major, and more specifically a student of rhetoric, I cannot begin to share my appreciation for the art of writing, speaking and communicating. I have been writing since weaned, and it is something I cannot go a day without doing. I write about everything, from over-enthused workers at Books-A- Million (you know the kind, the ones that try to sell your soul to their club card) to my hippie boss at work who throws his shoes at waitresses for fear that I will one day forget something that I always want to remember. My desire for writing drove me to join one of the most prestige international honor societies in the country. It is called Sigma Tau Delta, and it is the Engl…
Things to consider when writing your stories.
History.
When did this start? Who started it? What are the pivotal events on a timeline?
Scope.
What is the extent of the problem? How many people are affected? How much money is at stake?
Central reasons.
Why is this happening? What are the economic, social or political forces that created it, influence it, threaten it?
Impacts.
“Who is helped or hurt by this,” Blundell said, “and to what extent and what’s their emotional response to it?”
Gathering and action of contrary forces.
“If this is going on, is somebody trying to do anything about it, and how is that working out?” Blundell said.
The future.
“If this stuff keeps up,” he said, “what are things going to look like five or 10 years from now, in the eyes of the people who are directly involved?”
For more, see Blundell’s “The Art and Craft of Feature Writing.”
I’m going to go through this and see if it should be required when we start talking about audio news reporting.
A century ago, in an era when newspapers ruled the media world, the New York Herald enjoyed one of the highest circulations of any paper in America. Its publisher, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., was as well known (and controversial) as his two greatest competitors, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.
