Just a couple of links here to stories on the shootings at Virginia Tech. Just a samp[ling to facilitate class discussion.
Read this first. Jack Shafer, media critic for Slate.com, tells why reporters have to ask those inhumane, unfeeling questions when tragedy strikes. Then hit the back key or follow the link below for another insightful piece in Slate.
Online communication and tragedy. How students at Virginia Tech -- and elsewhere -- used interactive social networking sites to stay up with the news, and more importantly, communicate with people affected by the massacre.
Link here to the website of The Collegiate Times, the school paper at Virginia Tech. An excellent collection of preofessional caliber deadline writing.
Also a couple of stories from Editor & Publisher, the trade magazine for (well, the title says it, doesn't it?) editors and publishers in the newspaper business.
A feature of a nearby daily's social networking site in Blacksburg, Va., home of Virginia Tech. The website, called BickLickU.com, is a project of The Roanoke Times. Interesting in its own right as an example of a newspaper reaching out to a younger demographic.
An E&P interview with the editor of The Collegiate Times. The kids not only kept up with the major media but ran circles around them in covering a very difficult story.
An E&P story on blog coverage by The Roanoke Times and the Virginia Tech school paper. It also mentions blogs put up by The New York Times and the Washington Post.
A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.
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About Me
- Pete
- Springfield (Ill.), United States
- I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.
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