The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Monday, December 08, 2008

Student Newspaper Survival Blog

http://collegenewspaper.blogspot.com/

The Student Newspaper Survival Blog is a collection of news reports, commentaries and tips on the craft of college newspapering. It's designed to inspire student editors, reporters, page designers, photographers, cartoonists, columnists and critics-- as well as the advisers and business managers who help them.

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This blog is a companion to The Student Newspaper Survival Guide [by Rachele Kanigel is an assistant professor of journalism at San Francisco State University], a handbook about putting out a college newspaper. The book, published by Blackwell Publishing, is now used in college newspaper offices around the country. For more information about the book, or to order a copy, go to Collegenewspaper.org.
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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.