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

Saturday, May 15, 2010

COMM 150, COMM 209: BBC On the beat with a local reporter

On the beat with a local reporter 1min report, follows young reporter interviewing candidates, voters, etc. She uses shorthand!

Local newspaper reporters have been working overtime in the run-up to the British elections.
Katie Davis, news editor of the local north London newspaper the Ham and High, gave this first person account of what it's like to cover the campaign.

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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.