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Comment on Congratulations, TNT 21 Teaching Tips Winners! by We’re back in Nebraska, enjoying the “good life” « LivingInLincoln

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 02:49:48 +0000

[...] where I presented on two panels and at one other session. I also was lucky enough to win several awards in teaching competitions. And while I was there, the Chicago Tribune published an article I wrote [...]

Comment on Social-media research takes first ACES award by What I did this summer « The Editor’s Desk

What I did this summer « The Editor’s Desk — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:38:08 +0000

[...] Oversaw the inaugural ACES Award for Research in Editing. [...]

Comment on Plans (and a hashtag) for this week’s convention by Bob Stepno

Bob Stepno — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:51:31 +0000

Thanks for the “live on-site” use of the blog, Chris! Sorry I can’t join you in Chicago. Best wishes to all. As @bobstep I’ll watch for all the #aejmcNOND Tweets, including any from folks who think it means “non-denominational.”
Note: Non-Twitter-Users can see the Tweets by clicking that link

Comment on “Academic-Professional ‘Chasm’” fills summer e-mail boxes by Professionals & academics: Why the divide? | Michael R. McCluskey

Professionals & academics: Why the divide? | Michael R. McCluskey — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:10:54 +0000

[...] Those of us former professional journalists and current academics face intriguing choices. many of which were tackled in a recent (and ongoing) debate on an AEJMC newspaper and online news listserv. You can find much of it here: http://aejmc.net/news/?p=1324 [...]

Comment on “Academic-Professional ‘Chasm’” fills summer e-mail boxes by Bob Stepno

Bob Stepno — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:34:38 +0000

When everyone is tired of full mailboxes, we could move discussions like this one here to the blog — if you want.

Use the “Register” and “Login” buttons in the bottom right corner of this page to get a password so that you can login and comment.

You can even link to an earlier comment in the e-mail list by cutting and pasting its address from the mailing list archive:

List archive: http://aejmc.net/pipermail/news-list_aejmc.net/2012-June/

One sample message: http://aejmc.net/pipermail/news-list_aejmc.net/2012-June/000523.html

The comment’s editing window allows you to use an editing toolbar’s “link” icon to make the text do the linking within a sentence: I agree with something Bob said on Monday.

Comment on Call for entries: The division’s newspaper project award by Lois Lane

Lois Lane — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:04:58 +0000

Yes, if you click the “register” button and have the system send you a password, you can comment on these items. We would prefer that you use your real name, and we require that you use a real working e-mail address, preferably at a “.edu” institution. Keep all comments civil and legal. — Lois, for the management

Comment on Guardian unleashes pigs to promote “open” journalism by Yankee presses stop as pigs fly and YouTube shows the past of new media | Bob Stepno's Other Journalism

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:50:47 +0000

[...] Guardian unleashes pigs to explain social-networked news media, with hooks from Twitter tipsters and a wolf with asthma to a ton of huffing. [...]

Comment on East Carolina University fires student media adviser by Bob Stepno

Bob Stepno — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:20:48 +0000

Thanks, Chris. For division members and others, here’s a link to the robust discussion in progress on the division’s mailing list (more than 30 messages in 24 hours). You do not need to be a member to read the discussion:

http://aejmc.net/pipermail/news-list_aejmc.net/2012-January/thread.html

Here are additional news reports mentioned in the discussion:

http://theeastcarolinian.com/ (The school paper itself)

http://theeastcarolinian.com/?p=2633 University fires student media director

Greenville Daily Reflector

WNCT.com Adviser Fired story

WITN.com Adviser Fired story

Raleigh News & Observer story (includes interview with adviser… N&O story has legs: Boston Herald)

ScholarsAndRogues.com post by Denny Wilkins of St. Bonaventure, with discussion

Streaker isn’t college’s greatest embarrassment — by Gene Policinski, senior vice president/executive director, First Amendment Center, Nashville.

A more generalized version of this link list is on my personal blog, stepno.wordpress.com, with meandering text and a terribly yellow headline: “Full frontal nudity in a journalism faculty discussion.”

Comment on It’s #aejmc11 on Twitter by AEJMC conferencing via blog and tweet | Bob Stepno's Other Journalism

AEJMC conferencing via blog and tweet | Bob Stepno's Other Journalism — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:13:41 +0000

[...] changes its name to “Newspaper & Online News Division” in a couple of months, so my page-of-tweets from the AEJMC conference should be timely. If nothing else, its a place where division members can find each other’s [...]

Comment on It’s #aejmc11 on Twitter by Bob Stepno

Bob Stepno — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:28:27 +0000

A Twitter post referred to this article, but didn’t really do justice to Jack Shafer’s lead, so I’ll just copy it here… Uh-oh, am I being a “parasite”?

http://www.slate.com/id/2301315/pagenum/all/

Bloggers, Not Parasites
An academic finds local public-affairs bloggers who pull their weight, thank you very much.
By Jack Shafer
“The next time you catch a full-of-himself newspaper journalist bitching about bloggers ripping him off or a publisher bellyaching about his intellectual-property rights being violated by pajamaed parasites, wave a printout of this column in his face and knee him in the groin…”

Incidentally, Watson’s research paper title is “Bloggers’ Reliance on Newspaper, Online, and Original Sources in Reporting on Local Subjects Ignored by the Press”