Category Archives: journalism

Learning from “The Rocky Mountain News”

By Jared | Published: March 17, 2009
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 industry “ exited a harrowing 2008 and entered 2009 in something perilously close to free fall.” For media junkies, it’s also not a surprise that “The Rocky Mountain News”  is closing. But [...]
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Education 2.0 | The Internet makes us the computer wearing tennis shoes

By Jared | Published: December 2, 2008
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 to all that information just seemed really cool. For those unfamiliar, here’s a quick summary: This average guy, Dexter Reilly, zaps himself working on a state-of-the-art computer and suddenly he’s [...]
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Spot.us goes live, journalism may yet be saved

By Jared | Published: November 10, 2008
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 Cohn seeks to connect the community with journalism on a whole new level — the pocketbook. Spot.us lets people pitch and gather funds so a reporter can write the [...]
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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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