By: Robert Hernandez
I agree completely. Also, while Nieman may not reach everyone, we all can help by Facebooking, Tweeting, sharing, emailing, preaching these ideas. Thanks for your words… and I hope I am helping your...
View ArticleBy: StanleyKrauter
This article was another meaningless cheerleading essay for journalism students. —- Consider the foster care programs in every state. There is a small but significant number of children killed every...
View ArticleBy: Justin Threlkeld
Take heart! I am a j-school (if advertising focused) student and I read it. Students sometimes read things you’d never expect, and some of us even encourage a few friends to do the same.
View ArticleBy: Emily
Hi Stanley. I own a small news company in Birmingham, Alabama, and we do try to report on stories that have civic value like the ones you noted. We are, however, under budget constraints because we...
View ArticleBy: Blanca Torres
Well-said, Robert! I never studied journalism in college or grad school and somehow manage to work in the field. I was lucky enough to land a part-time job at my local newspaper while I was in high...
View ArticleBy: Kellee O'Reilly
This sentiment isn’t just true for students (journalism or otherwise), but for all of us continually-learning adults out here in the rapidly-shifting world, also. The message is clear: stop waiting...
View ArticleBy: StanleyKrauter
Everyone in the news media is missing an opportunity to communicate better by publishing an annual one week review of events and conditions in our country. Large daily newspapers could publish a seven...
View ArticleBy: Sadams9
Some journalist do it to spread awareness. Awareness – knowledge – solution. We do the hard stuff nobody wants to do so we can spread a message we deem important. Journalist are not the mass media,...
View ArticleBy: StanleyKrauter
But it would be very easy for journalists to do a better job. However, no one in the news media wants to communicate like a teacher would. No one cares that children are dying because the news media...
View ArticleBy: Robert Hernandez
You are proof that J-School isn’t required for everyone… I’m so proud of you and your career, especially with the latest move of joining the NAHJ board. Keep up the good work!
View ArticleBy: Buffy Andrews
+1 Totally love this! ”It’s the modern version of teaching someone how to fish. But why wait for someone to teach you how to fish when you can teach yourself?” This applies to professional...
View ArticleBy: TG
I’ll assign my students this article. The modern curriculum has so many requirements that students feel they have no room to explore. This article offers great advice. Yet most of the students working...
View ArticleBy: Former_scribe
You’re making the case for what we used to call “advocacy” journalism, in which the journalist chooses a target problem and whacks society over the head with the need to modify it. Social activists are...
View ArticleBy: Dan Cooper
What a load of total crap and a recipe for disaster. Journalism is a discipline. It’s learned from serious journalists with impeccable credentials and traditional non-new media backgrounds, meaning old...
View ArticleBy: Dan Nguyen
OK, I’ll reply. You state: “But editors and reporters don’t want to communicante like a teacher. Even though it would be easy to do. ” Could you elaborate on this? What would you like to see? What is...
View ArticleBy: Dan Nguyen
OK, I’ll reply. You state: “But editors and reporters don’t want to communicante like a teacher. Even though it would be easy to do. ” Could you elaborate on this? What would you like to see? What is...
View ArticleBy: StanleyKrauter
First, I am definitely not promoting “advocacy journalism.” I was attacking the effectiveness of how journalists communicate when I wrote about the foster care children. And this is just one issue...
View ArticleBy: StanleyKrauter
First, I am definitely not promoting “advocacy journalism.” I was attacking the effectiveness of how journalists communicate when I wrote about the foster care children. And this is just one issue...
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