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College and high school radio stations urge Congress to oppose record-label supported legislation
In a letter to members of Congress delivered earlier today under the banner of the Free Radio Alliance and the College Broadcasters Inc. (CBI), faculty, staff, and students from more than 80 stations including Duke University, Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin, SUNY-Brockport, […]

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This weekend, I saw the latest “Star Trek” movie. (slow-loading flash site - you have been warned)
It’s a good sci-fi movie, and a worthwhile “prequel” to the “Star Trek” franchise (I’m not a “Trekkie,” so keep that in mind). Today, I tried to find an image that sort of encapsulated what I thought […]

Summer is here and the living is easy– unless you’re a journalism student. For you, the summer means extra time to catch up in your ever-changing industry. You have no time to waste. Here are a few ways you can effectively use your summer to enhance your news site and/or journalism skills.
1. Start a blog […]

UPDATE: Our own CICM intern was among the UWire 100. Congrats, Lauren! - bryan

Today UWIRE announced the winners of its second-annual UWIRE 100 with yours truly included on the list.
From the press release:
UWIRE, a free membership organization for college student media, announced today the second annual UWIRE 100, which honors the nation’s top collegiate […]

This week in CollegeJourn chat, we talked about reinventing the journalism school.  If we could create a j-school from scratch, what would it look like? The two main arguments were:
Experience-based education: Daniel Bachhuber led the argument that the ideal undergraduate journalism program would have one year of learning the basics — ethics, writing, media law […]

The Daily Illini, just up the road from Eastern, has launched a new version of dailyillini.com built on the Drupal open-source CMS. The DI was formerly a College Publisher affiliate.
Former editor-in-chief Steve Contorno explains:
For the past several years, The Daily Illini has strived to be a leader in online journalism for college newspapers. Having received […]

Sam Rubenfeld opened this week’s #CollegeJourn chat with a statement that hits home for most journalism students these days: “I’m having panic attacks about post-graduation unemployment.”
Moderator Suzanne Yada opened Rubenfeld’s concern up to the entire chat. The general consensus: jobs are slim and PR might be a better option.
I put around 30 applications in at […]

This week’s #collegejourn chat opened up with a hot topic on the web this week: The John Stewart vs. Jim Cramer showdown that took place on the Daily Show (if you haven’t seen it, watch the full interview here).
Stewart (the comedian pundit) took on Cramer (CNBC’s financial news commentator) for his network’s faulty reporting prior […]

For those of you who couldn’t make it to Sunday’s #collegejourn chat, this is how it went down (or read the full transcript):
Hour one: College newspapers face weak ad revenue. Solutions?
USA Today wrote an article about the “all-too-real-world-lesson” that college newspaper revenue decline is finally catching up with the professional world (although, it should be […]

 Warning/Update: Parts of the site are NSFW (not safe for work) for (some) North American classroom because some of the images and videos follow Eastern european sensibilities regarding nudity and sex. (via Robb Montgomery)

From the session today at Newstrain, 24sata, a Syrian Croatian news site that features a single-screen design. It’s an interesting concept, which […]