broadcast outcast

I do my best to get whatever posts I can find about the field of journalism up here while commenting on them.  I stumbled on a piece from the New Britain Herald from Connecticut, where James. H Smith gives a fair take on journalism.  I don’t claim to be familiar with his work or the [...]

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Not that it makes a helluva lot of difference to the average person, let alone anyone who stumbles upon this site from Google, but the school I worked at last year showed up in a Spanish news report on television.  Chances are, you won’t understand what they’re saying (that is, unless you speak fluent Spanish), [...]

Never shying away from a good article, last night before I went to bed I read an article that at least finds a better way to state that tired phrase “entrepreneurial spirit.” I don’t think people want to hear about journalists needing to be start-ups in order to make money.  You have to be brave [...]

My status on the limbo-list at Columbia hasn’t changed.  It seems like I’m obsessed with it, but really, I’m not.  I just know there are a lot of people out there who want as much info on the waitlist at Columbia as they can digest.  This is why I’m here…full disclosure.  I got this about [...]

For those thinking about going into a journalism program, the main concern has to be: where the hell am I gonna get a job?  Many of the articles I’ve been linking to have had some form of the phrase “entrepreneurial spirit” or some other bullshit phrase like it quoted somewhere.  What does that mean? Well, [...]

Leave it up to the New York Times to provide the world with an article that isn’t simply a rehash and gives us something to consider.  Let’s take a big breath, hold it, and remember what good storytelling and reporting are like. Ahhh. Today, on their website, the Times has a fantastic article entitled “J-Schools [...]

The idea that journalism jobs are disappearing–GASP–and that somehow journalism schools are managing to thrive–NO WAY–has been catching on like wildfire on the internet as of late.  The LA Times decided to join the party, with an article entitled “As newspapers decline, journalism schools thrive“.   Holy Christ, who’s next?  Seriously, I’ve read the same [...]

Going to journalism school won’t allow you to be a journalist.  It’s simply a fact.  Gradplus.com tosses up this brief article telling all of us would-be journalists that, in fact, there aren’t a helluva lot of journalism jobs out there.  The article says y0ung journalists must learn to incorporate audio and visual elements into their [...]

Count me as one of those knuckleheads who thinks being properly trained as a journalist is important.  It seems like I add nothing but other people’s content to the site, but so be it.  I can’t say I give a damn.  All this stuff I’m putting up here seems important to me.  And that’s all [...]