Journalism & Broadcasting
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There are many steps during the internship application and interview process. And since this is the time of year that hordes of students are looking for fall internships, here are a few tips on how to land an internship at a major network.
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Be on time, follow directions, dress appropriately. These are a few tips given to students as part of how to be a good intern. They are indeed effective and useful, but to put a little twist on the monotonous advice, here’s how not to be a good intern.
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He started his own newspaper after graduating college. He worked as a reporter and an editor at Newsday for 35 years. Now, he is teaching and proposing a new journalism major at Stony Brook University. He is Howard Schneider.
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Jennifer Sinco Kelleher has made the transition from sunny Hawaii to New York relatively smoothly. When she first came to the Big Apple for her job with the newspaper Newsday, she knew nobody. “When I first got here I would take any overnight shift,” she said. Kelleher said that she had never seen snow until she came to NY. She admits that after three years in New York, she neither knows how to dress for the weather nor shovel snow. “Good journalism is everywhere,” Kelleher said. She advises students she spoke to in a journalism class at Stony Brook University, to go for a job at whatever paper they can get.
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Peter Jennings passed away yesterday, due to lung cancer. He was 67 years old. Today, most news programs touched upon his legacy in some way; some more than others. CNN's Anderson Cooper, Paula Zahn and Aaron Brown, all ABCNews alumni, spent considerable time interviewing current and former ABCNews correspondents. Cooper and MSNBC's Keith Olbermann used Peter's death to focus on the dangers of cigarette smoking. ABCNews, obviously, paid solemn tribute to Jennings on World News Tonight and Nightline. Even Fox News got into the act, as Bill O'Reilly interviwed Barbara Walters (and couldn't stop making ridiculous comparisons between Jennings and himself). |
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The summer of 2005 was relatively mundane in terms of news stories. Tropical storms. Competition among the cities of the world for the honor of holding the 2012 Olympics. The incessantly covered Natalie Holloway disappearance. Shark attacks in Florida frightening swimmers in New York out of the water. Aside from the Live-8 concerts that raised awareness of Africa, site of many of the developing nations discussed at the ongoing G-8 conference of world leaders, nothing of world relevance was covered by the news media. |
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The latest installment on media ethics. This time we discuss the role and purpose of media. |
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I’m going to answer a simple question that seems to have confused many recently. What is journalism? According to www.dictionary.com, journalism is “1. The collecting, writing, editing, and presenting of news or news articles in newspapers and magazines and in radio and television broadcasts.” |
