September 2nd, 2014 • Quill Archives, Education Toolbox
Education Toolbox
Whenever I hear the call for journalism schools to be like teaching hospitals, I can’t help but picture an editing professor bellowing to student reporters in scrubs, “We’re losing this story. Get me 20 CCs of active voice — stat!” Jokes aside, we’ve been hearing a lot lately about the teaching hospital model and other prescriptions for reforming journalism education.
December 5th, 2012 • Quill Archives, Education Toolbox
Education Toolbox
Edit a story or create a Storify? Enforce AP style or craft an SEO headline? Attend SPJ or head to ONA? Copy editors in today’s digital newsrooms face tough choices, as do copy-editing teachers and students. It can be a struggle to infuse online skills into curricula geared for print or even broadcast journalism.
August 4th, 2011 • Quill Archives, Education Toolbox
Education Toolbox
Most of my Mass Comm 101 students at Virginia Commonwealth University were in elementary school when security forces in Eritrea, in the Horn of Africa, arrested Dawit Isaac, a reporter for the country’s largest newspaper, in September 2001. For half of the students’ lives, Isaac has been imprisoned without charges.
March 31st, 2010 • Quill Archives, Education Toolbox
Education Toolbox
Kate Lewanowicz, a junior at Virginia Commonwealth University, knew she had a compelling story when she witnessed a shouting match between a fiery street preacher and sign-waving students in VCU’s free-speech zone. There was just one problem when Lewanowicz pitched the idea to the editors at the campus newspaper, the Commonwealth Times: They had recently published a similar piece.
August 7th, 2007 • Quill Archives
The benefits of international media partnerships
Feodosia, Ukraine, and Bloomington, Ind., are 5,600 miles apart, separated as much by language and culture as by geography. But a close relationship has developed between the two cities’ leading newspapers: Kafa, a thrice-weekly in Crimea with a circulation of about 35,000, and The Herald-Times, a 28,000-circulation daily in south-central Indiana.
August 7th, 2007 • Quill Archives
The Web’s Hidden Gems
Technology often means steep prices, steep learning or both. But a number of recent innovations are free and easy to use, and they offer tremendous benefits for journalists, journalism educators and journalism students. With these tips, you can: • Do better and more efficient research.
May 7th, 2007 • Quill Archives
Oppression: Supporting journalists where the press isn’t free
KHARKIV, Ukraine – Since January, I have been living in Ukraine, teaching and learning from journalists as part of a Knight International Journalism Fellowship. I start most days with two staples: a steaming-hot mug of coffee to counter the bitter winter cold, and a careful perusal of stories from the country’s newspapers and news Web sites.
August 1st, 2006 • Quill Archives
Mutual Media
It’s the ultimate win-win: Journalism students need clips to land internships and jobs; news organizations need stories to fill their print and online publications. How can journalism educators help broker both those needs? One way is to set up a student-operated news service — and thanks to blogging software, that’s easier than ever.
July 29th, 2005 • Quill Archives
Trainning in session
Now there’s no excuse. You can’t say training for journalists is too expensive. Programs such as NewsTrain, which teaches management and editing skills to frontline editors, cost participants about the price of a nice meal; many other training resources for journalists are free.
September 21st, 2004 • Quill Archives
Ethics in the classroom
This spring, Jerry Ceppos, vice president for news at Knight Ridder, finished his term as president of the organization that accredits journalism schools. In a speech at the April 30 meeting of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, Ceppos ticked off a list of plagiarism cases that had cropped up at newspapers over the previous year.
March 5th, 2002 • Quill Archives
New graduates: prepare for ‘techno-shock’
At Kenyon College in Ohio, Emily Huigens had high-speed Internet access from classrooms, the library, computer lounges, her dorm room and everywhere else on campus. So it was a “rude awakening” when she took a reporting job in the Georgia bureau of the Anderson, S.C.,
July 31st, 2001 • Quill Archives
Learning on the Job
In late 1992, the Freedom Forum issued a study called “No Train, No Gain,” about staff development at America’s newspapers. The situation then was “abysmal,” recalled Dick Thien, who helped write the report. Training often meant just getting an employee handbook on the first day of work.
