Category Archives: journalism education

Another appeal to help send high schoolers to NYC

Last week I blogged about high school journalists at my alma mater who won an award eight days ago and now have only a week to raise enough funds to get to New York City in time to accept it. … Continue reading

I’ll be speaking at ACP Hollywood in March

This year I’ll be speaking and co-hosting workshops for the Associated Collegiate Press National College Journalism Convention in Los Angeles March 3-6, at the Renaissance Hollywood hotel: “Workshop: Hollywood Experience” at 10 a.m. to Noon Thursday, March 3, in the Whitley … Continue reading

Rob Curley hits it spot-on: College j-grads are closed-minded

While following tweets about the Associated Collegiate Press Conference in Phoenix, one particular tweet from Jeremy D. Stanley struck me: “The most close minded journalists are the ones that just graduated.” – Rob Curley #acpphx (Full audio above from CICM … Continue reading

How to use social media in a global communications class

I’m meeting with a Cal Poly journalism professor Monday to talk about ways he can use social media as a supplement to his global communications class. I don’t know much about the class or the professor, but I’ve embedded the … Continue reading

Student views on modernizing j-education

Student views on modernizing j-education from Lauren Rabaino on Vimeo. Students at the 2009 Associated Collegiate Press Conference in San Diego, Calif. discuss ideas on modernizing journalism education in the 21st century.