Barry Vacker, associate professor of media studies and production, has recently appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “To The Best of our Knowledge,” a nationally syndicated show that airs in 180 markets.
On Feb. 24, Vacker discussed his book, “Slugging Nothing: Fighting the Future in Fight Club.”
He returned on April 4 to discuss “The End of the World — Again: Why the Apocalypse Meme Replicates in Media, Science, and Culture.”
Strategic Communication Assistant Professor Jason Del Gandio was interviewed by Nicole Radzievich of The (Allentown) Morning Call newspaper (“Penn State Trustee Campaign Heats Up,” April 8, 2013, p. A1). Del Gandio was asked to comment on the advocacy efforts of Penn State alumni in the wake of the Jerry Sanduksy scandal. … Read more »
In a Columbia Journalism Review article, Sarah Jaffe, JOUR ’09, discusses the placement of women’s issues and why they sometimes end up in the Style section.
It helps to look at the history of the Style section, says Journalism Professor Carolyn Kitch. In the 1890s, New York World published the first “Women’s Page,” the forerunner of the Style section. There, newspapers covered food, fashion, parenting and the beginnings of the women’s movement.
Graduation day.
It’s a landmark moment not only for those wearing the caps and gowns, but for the friends and family members who make up their support systems. A quick study of the beaming smiles and eyes filled with anticipation in the audience of the Temple Performing Arts Center before the Feb. 1 ceremony was proof enough.
“It’s a milestone for her and our family,” said Lisa Roberts-Amegatcher, whose daughter, Marchelle Roberts, is the first of her 10 siblings (most of whom were adopted) to graduate from college. “We’re very excited and we’re very proud. Words cannot express.”
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In the days since it was revealed that Notre Dame football player Manti T’eo’s girlfriend never actually existed, along with a few other factual speed bumps in other news items, journalists have had time to reflect on the importance in accuracy in reporting.
“Each example here undermines the credibility of all journalists. That’s about the only significant aspect for a journalist’s reputation. And the public ranks journalists as among the least credible people in the U.S.,” Harper says.
In public relations, practitioners continuously deal with the fact that the only constant is change. The Philadelphia chapter of the Public Relations Society of America came to Associate Professor Gregg Feistman, STRC, to see how the ebb and flow of trends in their field impacts how public relations is taught in college classrooms.
“In our program, the emphasis is on three things: technical skills, such as writing, theoretical foundations and strategic thinking,” he said.
Journalism departments around the country are starting to give their students new news opportunities. More than beefing up course catalogs with multimedia and convergence offerings, journalism schools and departments are becoming incubators for entrepreneurial news startups — news websites that are populated with student content. One such site: Temple’s required capstone that has some 180 students covering 30 neighborhoods over the course of an academic year for PhiladelphiaNeighborhoods.com.
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The current owners of Philadelphia’s two major newspapers are mulling over bids from at least two groups that would like to buy the papers. The sale is being conducted with much secrecy. Professor Chris Harper, JOUR, said, “A news organization is protected by the First Amendment and clearly gets a lot of advantages as a result of those protections, so one would expect that a news organization should be more forthcoming and less secretive.”
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Assistant Professor Elisabeth Subrin, FMA, was interviewed by the New York Times about how the terrorist attacks of 9/11 impacted her work as an artist. … Read more »
The Columbia Journalism Review recently wrote about a counterintuitive trend they’ve seen cropping up among digital news sites. Some Web-only publications are starting to create print products to help boost revenue and reach people in areas that are lacking in Internet access.
“The Internet availability is probably forty or fifty percent in some [of these neighborhoods], so we found a really good reception to our print edition,” says Assistant Professor Christopher Harper, co-director of the Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab.
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