I've spent the last 20 years teaching journalism and writing classes at a selective public university, and the majority of my (bright) students put me in mind of Jack Nicholson's line to Tom Cruise in "A Few Good Men": "You can't handle the truth!"
For most of us in the online journalism business, writing headlines basically amounts to guesswork.
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At one point two students at Columbia Journalism School were writing their master's projects on the company.
The year-long course covers a wide range of topics, such as basic journalism, feature writing, photojournalism and investigative reporting.
The Jonah Lehrer debacle has spawned a series of debates about popular science writing and journalism.
Lawrence Mower, one of my students when I taught journalism and advanced magazine writing at UNLV, did exactly that.
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The actual journalism inside, the writing, is paid for by the advertising that the magazine or paper is running.
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Based in Chicago, Illinois, with a journalism background, she began writing her book last fall after losing her job as vice president of a Web site for people facing health crises.
Those who teach journalism and other disciplines that involve writing would be prudent to consider it an occupational hazard.
Our disruptive model for journalism also expands the pool of writing talent to non-staff journalists, authors, academics, topic experts and business leaders.
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Over the last few weeks, we have been learning about all aspects of journalism such as reporting, newspaper writing and article writing.
One summer I took a vacation from my law job to attend an intensive one-week magazine writing course at Columbia Journalism School.
As part of this project, 60 citizen journalists from rural communities in the provinces of Preah Vihear, Mondulkiri and Ratanakir are being trained in reporting, writing, editing, investigative journalism and human rights.
To complete the project, MASI is organising three further training workshops to be conducted throughout 2006, in radio presentation, writing for news and investigative journalism, and will be conducted entirely by the recent graduates from the Training of Trainers.
Berkeley, a graduate degree in writing, and years of journalism experience, but, it turned out, my real gift, in this case, was pretending to be an inanimate object that, regardless of the fact that it had no hands or mouth, was able to talk to the world through its Facebook page.
All of which rather goes to prove one of my favourite points about writing, whether it be blogging of journalism.
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After university she had first got a job writing advertising copy and had then taken up journalism.
Still, Lehrer said he is aiming to return to the world of journalism, and has been spending several hours a day writing.
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Now after studying business at Drexel University and journalism at NYU, I compete for bylines, primarily writing about the business of sports.
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But merely writing and editing was not enough for Stead, whose vision of journalism was far more proactive.
In keeping with the anti-elitism of his boss, Rupert Murdoch, Thomson has always been publicly dismissive of the Pulitzers and other journalism awards, saying they reward exactly the kind of prolix, self-important writing readers can do without.
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Few so-called literary novelists earn a living writing these days they teach or apply for grants or do freelance journalism.
Meghan: While studying journalism at the University of Washington, I quickly realized journalists of the future would need more than solid writing and reporting skills to make it in the news business.
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