Fake Reporting? Not Anymore...
...according to Sreenath Sreenivasan, dean of students at Columbia University's school of journalism.
"Reading Amanda's item below [dated August 30th]... it appears that the class (or atleast some percentage of readers of this blog) is unaware of a major new venture that will be launched later this fall. When you created businesscards, you probably noticed the ColumbiaJournalist.org domain on the template. That's the URL for a brand-new site of student work to showcase what we do here. Professors will submit high-quality student work (ie, not everything written in every RWI class will be published there) and the site will be updated regularly. Once the site is launched, we will get the word out to recruiters, community leaders, the press and alumni. We are waiting for a few weeks to make sure there's enough good material tospotlight. Watch for updates."
As long as there's something about the blog :-p
"Reading Amanda's item below [dated August 30th]... it appears that the class (or atleast some percentage of readers of this blog) is unaware of a major new venture that will be launched later this fall. When you created businesscards, you probably noticed the ColumbiaJournalist.org domain on the template. That's the URL for a brand-new site of student work to showcase what we do here. Professors will submit high-quality student work (ie, not everything written in every RWI class will be published there) and the site will be updated regularly. Once the site is launched, we will get the word out to recruiters, community leaders, the press and alumni. We are waiting for a few weeks to make sure there's enough good material tospotlight. Watch for updates."
As long as there's something about the blog :-p
posted by thepaperboy @ 9/05/2005 02:47:00 PM
4 Comments:
At 12:27 PM,
kimberly kinchen said…
Interesting. I missed this announcement.
I think this is a big step in a good direction - after looking at scribbledehobble's earlier posts mentioning web publishing as an option, I was thinking maybe some sort of local online wire could be available to the Eds. of the local papers - they could pick up stuff there, use as is, or ask the student to do a little more work, edit, etc. whatever. maybe that's part of the idea.
i hope this works well for broadcast folks as well. i could see that being a bit more challenging.
At 10:31 PM,
amanda millner-fairbanks said…
Ed, wherever did you find Dean Sreenivasan's posting?
::It looks as though columbiajournalist.org might indeed solve the "pretend stories" phenomenon::
At 10:53 PM,
Anonymous said…
When will we get our cards? I feel like that is a big step towards legitimizing ourselves.
At 1:44 PM,
thepaperboy said…
I'm not revealing my sources ;-)
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