Thursday, July 3, 2008

From my campus blog

July 3

Dan Kennedy is a media critic and my colleague at Northeastern. His blog, Media Nation, is worth checking out.

For those of you who blog, he recently did his first video on fair use and blogging. If you blog and don’t know about copyright laws, you had better learn about them.

The first interview drones on but the second one is really helpful. http://medianation.blogspot.com/2008/07/fair-use-video.html

TR

July 2

Hi summer readers:

Please take note of the death of Clay Felker, an editor at Esquire and later New York magazine. He nurtured a type of writing that was called "New Journalism" at the time, Tom Wolfe (before he wrote fiction, Gay Talese, Nora Ephron (before she wrote movie scripts) and Gloria Steinem (before she became a feminist icon.) Here, some writers talk about his influence...

http://www.observer.com/2008/media/clay-felker-made-new-york-magazine?page=0%2C0More

...on what we now call narrative or literary nonfiction -- http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/narrative/digest/index.html

TR


6/28

Check on the link below for video from this event:

Some 45 New England college journalism educators, high-school newspaper advisors, editors, news directors, citizen journalists, bloggers and researchers gathered Saturday, June 28, 2008, for a unique, one-day workshop, "Sharing the News: Fresh Approaches to Reaching Students and Training Citizens." http://www.newenglandnews.org/?q=sharingTR

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