Hey, one thing I’ve been thinking: Placeblogs offer a really unparallelled way for journalism students to get clips. Many allow contributions without even needing to pitch anybody. Pick a story, write it, hit enter.

Oh, and for style points:
– respond to all comments on your story
– if you didn’t get any, reflect on why (maybe it’s that most people don’t feel like a traditionally written newspaper story is a prompt to conversation. Hint: Just asking a question at the end doesn’t work. Humor does work).
– Take bad cellphone camera pictures. Take decent digital camera pictures. Add them as a slideshow. Invite others to add their photos.
– Figure out how to shoot and edit short videos, embed a YouTube clip.
– Do the whole story as a podcast.
– Add it to your list of clips.
– Lather, rinse, repeat!