Author Archives: Jared

Barack Obama will be the next president

By Jared | Published: November 4, 2008
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 running down Broad St. As a journalism student I’m reminded of the everpresent mantra of “objectivity.” To all journalists who cannot appreciate how this election trumps the objectivity defense [...]
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Election day Soundslide

By Jared | Published: November 4, 2008
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 again I decided to talk to the volunteers trying to get Temple Students to go vote. Kevin Inacker, the residential housing director for the Obama campaign at Temple, talked about [...]
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TNTJ: What I want to do in journalism — Covering the environment as a journalist who cares

By Jared | Published: October 12, 2008
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 to “The Carnival of Journalism.” For October 2008, the TNTJ topic is What would your ideal journalism job be and why? I wasn’t always interested in journalism. In high school [...]
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Test on uploading Soundslides

By Jared | Published: September 25, 2008
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 since I’m learning on my own. While I’m not working with a class on Soundslides, I do have some resources, most notably a series of posts by journalism Professor Mindy [...]
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CoPress: Changing college journalism

By Jared | Published: September 11, 2008
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. What does that mean? We’re trying to fix the “CMS problem.” The CMS Problem Technical problems keep student publications from having the freedom to innovate because they usually end up [...]
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