Entries by Jared

It's no secret that newspapers are in trouble. In fact, the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism's "State of the News Media" report said the ...

I know I'm behind on this little meme, but I've been behind what with my trip to the Everglades and working on my design final. Am ...

I've got a confession. I love the '95 remake of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, the one with Kirk Cameron —not Kurt Russell. Having access ...

I'm taking a trip to Walter Hamilton Place between November 25th and November 30th. I'll be heading down to south Florida to get some experience — ...

Today, like last week, is another historic day. Not as historic mind you, but pretty good nonetheless. That's right, Spot.us is live. The brainchild of Dave ...

It's official. I'm truly unable to express my excitement. Right now I'm sitting in my appartment watching the aftermath on TV while I listen to students ...

Being election day, I felt the need to get out and do something since I voted absentee a few weeks ago. Since I couldn't vote ...

This post is part of this month's "Tomorrow's News, Tomorrow's Journalists." Each month a group of young journalists picks a topic to blog about, similar ...

Today I decided to work with Soundslides. The audio is not there yet, mostly because I haven't gotten it yet. Basically I'm taking baby steps ...

What is CoPress? It's a network of journalists and students working at college publications trying to solve some of the technical problems with publishing online. ...

As a student at Temple University I'm enjoying an abundance of daily and weekly publications, in fact there's too many to read them all. The ...

This is a personal post, but it's tied to my journalism education in a large way. After graduating from Northampton Community College with an Associate's ...

Note: This post is part of this month's Tomorrow's News, Tomorrow's Journalists discussion on challenges facing young journalists. As a young student and journalist I have ...

Just testing GeoPress plugin to see how it works. Testing at my parent's house. INSERT_MAP

Last week I discovered the known jerk/spammer/curmudgeon wenalway hit my blog. After I got home I quickly blocked his IP and removed all the comments ...

So last week I mentioned a new blog ring for young journalists (courtesy of Dave Lee) and after some name debate, we've got a label: ...

A few weeks ago Dave Lee posted an idea he was kicking around for a blog ring of young journalists. I read through some of ...

There's been a lot of talk on the blogs lately addressing the crusty old thinkers in the media. Ryan Sholin urged the new thinkers to ...

There's something vaguely familiar with the attitude in that comic; something I don't quite understand -- why do people continue to cling to the old ...

Image via Wikipedia As the potential handful of readers of this blog know, I'm a recent graduate of  Northampton Community College's journalism program. And I've also blogged ...

Whenever someone asks me what I'm studying I cringe as I manage to squeak out the word -- "journalism." They freeze up, mention something about ...

I started my internship at The Morning Call right after Memorial Day. On my first day I wrote a story from a press release. The story ...

I was having a great conversation about evolution last week. Pretty standard fair actually: niche roles, adaptation, survival and speciation (wherein a subgroup chooses desirable ...

Today I graduated from Northampton Community College with my Associate of Arts degree in journalism. Now while all that may be exciting -- just like ...

Image via Wikipedia Awhile back I posted a photo of my mobile journalism kit where I mentioned I don't have a smart phone. Nokia seemed to ...