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Truthtelling vs Storytelling: Some of you aren’t going to like this
by Candace Bowen, MJE Yes, it’s true. I’m going to question a concept scholastic media latched onto and often treats like the solution to all media problems. We got it from commercial media and have adopted it passionately: It’s storytelling. And, yes, it certainly has some value, but it has some pitfalls we and our…
A (written) step toward more faculty support
by Lindsay Coppens In good times and bad times, having faculty support can go a long way in ensuring student press rights. Towards the beginning of each year, but sometimes when we’re nearing the end of semester one, I send an email to the faculty and staff to thank them for their support, to reinforce…
Stop being afraid
by Cyndi Hyatt The media is under attack. Although friction between the press and the President is nothing new (John Adams, Teddy Roosevelt and Richard Nixon all had a cantankerous relationship with the press) this current labeling journalists as the “Enemy of the People” has far reaching effects that may even trickle down to student…
Trickling down hits the news room
by Stan Zoller, MJE The Ronald Reagan presidency, if nothing else, introduced the United State to “trickle-down economics,” which was described as a method by which “… benefits for the wealthy trickle down to everyone else. These benefits are tax cuts on businesses, high-income earners, capital gains and dividends.” It could be described that government…
Lack of media diversity creates problems for democracy
by Candace Bowen, MJE Columbia Journalism Review is focusing on diversity in this fall’s print issue and online site— not the diversity of inclusion or the diversity that just gives us more voices. In the intro to the Fall 2018 issue,author Jelani Cobb, director of Columbia University’s Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Human…
Student journalists should heal and transform the world
JEA Administrator of the Year, Rachel Simpson Thanks to the JEA for this award. It is an honor to be here and an extraordinary privilege — and a wonderful surprise, frankly — to be recognized in this way. Gratitude to everyone in this room for your work motivating student’ voice and student publication. Specifically, in…
Student journalists are the real deal
by Cyndi Hyatt A few weeks back a student reporter asked a school administrator if she could cover a school-related banquet at a local country club, an event much touted and advertised. Sure was the response, but she would have to buy a ticket. She was not expecting that response, nor was I. After…
The importance of linking to reporting
Links in online reporting provides context, credibility and transparency for coverage by Kristin Taylor You can’t click on a print newspaper, so why should we include links in digital stories? The Nieman Foundation provides four main purposes for adding links: Links are good for storytelling. Links keep the audience informed. Links are a currency of collaboration….