broadcast outcast

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 [...]

The New York Times has an article up today that explains the ins and outs of student loans, entitled “In Grim Job Market, Student Loans Are a Costly Burden“.  This topic is of great interest to someone like me–I won’t be receiving much money, if any, to attend graduate schools I’ve applied to.  My best [...]

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 [...]

Well, I sent off the official letter to Mizzou yesterday, stating that I will not be attending.  To be honest, none of the teaching or research positions they offered were ever of much interest to me–until yesterday, when it didn’t matter anymore.  There was a position running their radio program, Radio Adelante, which requires someone [...]

In my WordPress dashboard, I can see how people access my page.  I won’t go into specifics.  Anyway, I can see what search terms bring people here.  Mostly, it’s people googling “Columbia waitlist” or “graduate acceptance letter” and mundane things of that nature.  Then, you get a few that make it all worthwhile.  I now [...]

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 [...]

The New York Times has an article pertinent to all students, current and future, regarding Obama’s planned student aid changes: Plan to Change Student Lending Sets Up a Fight If I understand things correctly, the President wants to end the facade that private lenders can actually finance education at the university level.  In relative terms, [...]