Quilting (crazy & sane), Girl Scouts, retirement, media, MS, cancer, community, communicating, change
Did you see this breaking alert from the Chicago Tribune intern who will teach a course focused on Twitter?A news release says DePaul also is offering:
Speaking of journalism classes, former Flint Journal editor John Foren stepped back into the classroom at Michigan State University. He's teaching computer-assisted journalism. The three-credit, 400 level is described as including "Electronic information gathering using online databases, videotex, bulletin boards, and public records. Research and reporting strategy. Development of computerized news gathering."He's already been called professor.
Speaking of jobs, John also wrote recently for The Center for Michigan - Connecting students to good jobs that DO exist. (He left his editor post July 31.)
See, everything is connected.
[Anderson's] investigative piece, published in the September American edition of GQ, challenges the official line on a series of bombings that killed hundreds of people in 1999 in Russia. It profiles a former KGB agent who spoke in great detail and on the record, at no small risk to himself. But instead of trumpeting his reporting, GQ's corporate owners went to extraordinary lengths to try to ensure no Russians will ever see it.The corporate owners don't seem to have any concerns over the accuracy of the story or with Anderson's safety. An email from Jerry S. Birenz, a lawyer for Conde Nast, the corporate owner of GQ, indicates financial motives were at play:
[Birenz] ordered that the article could not be posted to the magazine's Web site. No copies of the American edition of the magazine could be sent to Russia or shown in any country to Russian government officials, journalists or advertisers. Additionally, the piece could not be published in other Conde Nast magazines abroad, nor publicized in any way.Scott also reported that Gawker is working on a Russian translation of the GQ story and has scanned the article.
Gawker - hey, it's a fun read - and the New York Times Gadget blog were chatting about using a newspaper bag to protect your laptop. The $85 bags are called "the perfect repellent for criminally-minded urban digerati, much like the classical music piped outside convenience stores to discourage teenaged loiterers."
Tripping through the Internet has uncovered more evidence that some Girl Scouts are serious about moving faster."Come to find out that I personally love the magazine sale because a giant pile of product doesn't end up stacked my dining room waiting to be delivered.It's true that fund-raisers for organizations like Girl Scouts do take a lot of time and space for the adults involved. I do not miss the days of figuring out how many boxes of cookies will fit into what vehicle or whose garage.
"If I have to be stuck in the non-stop world of fundraising (which I am), then at the very least I would like to support the one product that inconveniences me the least."
"Girls can use e‐mail and age‐appropriate Internet functions as online marketing tools to let family, friends, and former customers know about the sale and collect indications of interest."The new guidelines also allow adult-supervised e‐mail and texting as a marketing tool, and/or use of a customer commitment tool (such as an e‐card or blind e‐mail provided by product vendors) to communicate with family, friends, and former customers.
Wow. Talk about being watched. Nieman Journalism Lab over at Harvard University came out Wednesday with another post about AnnArbor.com.
A journalist who started covering Michigan politics in 2000 but lost his printing press when the Ann Arbor News closed in July launched Reporting Michigan with a web site, Twitter account. and a group on Facebook."I just decided to "go for it." I am in front of all the right people. It's just, "How bad do they want an outlet that won't rip on conservative values?" We'll find out."Gantert says he start selling advertising within a couple weeks.
"But even if I "make it big" all the other organizations have one full timer and hire freelancers to contribute on a daily basis. Tis' the new journalism model."And that came from a Facebook reply, just part of that model.
"We started Reporting Michigan because there was a gap in the coverage done by the mainstream news media. Conservative issues are often overlooked or not given fair treatment.Back in July, Gantert told the Ann Arbor News he was "anxious, nervous and sad" as the newspaper ceased publication and he was working on this new enterprise on his own where "For the first time, I'll be working for the smartest man I know."
"We will not allow comments on stories to be posted. Simply put, there hasn’t been a news site yet that has found a way to handle commentary in an acceptable manner.His rules for an "email to the editor" section include:
Either vulgar and insulting comments are allowed to be posted, or the censorship of some posts is uneven at best, biased at worst.
But your voice can be heard and in your own words. There will be an “email to the editor” section."
The recovering perfectionist is slipping in so many ways. Bring on the wet noodles as I attempt to set the record straight on this and on that.
"From across the globe, the shared prayers, tributes and stories have meant so much and will keep Bill's memory alive for all of us. .... I am blessed for the years that we spent together and for the stories that I will be able to share with our children of Bill's ideals, bravery, love and compassion."She is expecting twins in December, just weeks after Bill was to return from his third tour of duty.
"Bill would also be grateful to see that his story helped to raise awareness of the untold sacrifices of the men and women serving their country around the world today. It is their sense of duty and patriotism that inspired Bill to serve and will be the legacy of honor and commitment that he leaves to our children, and to the rest of us."By the way, NPR filed a report on Cahir I enjoyed. The Washington Post posted a photo of a Marine presenting a flag to Browne that I really like. There's also a memorial fund set up via Democracy in Action.that (There's a photo gallery.)
I wrote about Cahir in Passion drove former Newhouse reporter. and I pray every day that my nephew who just left on his tour of duty returns. It's a practice I intensived after reading Sadly, now I know his first name.
A stark reminder of how different this summer is compared to last year's came today with the announcement of the finalists for the 2009 Online News Association's journalism awards.
The Girl Scouts are moving into Facebook nearly as fast as they Twitter.
Success comes with passion, power and purpose. Or maybe the right word is authenticity,Nice interview by @cnewvine with owners of Ann Arbor Brewing Co and Corner BreweryColleen Newvine did come up with an inspiring post on the success of the owners of Ann Arbor Brewing Co and Corner Brewery. Hard work coupled with a dream won't make a life worth living. That takes mindful awareness of what life you want, how the day must go. Imagine that.
"If you’re authentic — which includes honesty and forthrightness and decency in my mind — you’re not going to have a problem with breaching anything.(Are you sure Gina that you need to move out of the newsroom and back to the classroom? There are newsrooms needing your thinking,)
"To me, authenticity would makes it needless to impose cumbersome rules for journalists’ social media use."
(She ripped her second - and last - pair of pants on the radiation table; cut her leg too.)
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