Returning from break…

This blog has been on a bit of haitus since my winter break at school began, but I’m back at schoool so I’ll be back to the blog, too. Look for a couple of new posts in the days and weeks ahead about the second half of J-school, an interesting battle over a tiny bit [...]

Election tomorrow: Columbia covering NYC

In another self-promotion bit, the Journalism School is covering the election tomorrow at the site www.columbiajournalist.org/elections.
A good chunk of the school’s students are contributing to the site tomorrow, which features a video broadcast, radio broadcast and new media broadcast airing from 7 p.m. to midnight EST.
There are also six deadline print stories, with corresponding multimedia [...]

First Brooklyn published article

This week I had my first successfully freelanced article from New York publisehd in The Brooklyn Paper. It’s about neighbors complaints over school trash that sits outside on the sidewalk all day. At one point, the neighbors got so annoyed they tossed the trash back onto school grounds. Read the story here.

NYU professor limiting blogging about class

I just happened upon this link on Romenekso that caught my eye, which was occurring at the other New York J-School, NYU.
The story is about a girl in a “Generation Y” class who blogs about the behind the times attitudes in her class.
Long story short, the professor gets upset that she is being criticized, [...]

Obama and McCain at Columbia

First, some excellent coverage of the day’s festivities from the J-Schoolers at Columbia: www.obamamccainatcolumbia.blogspot.com. (Disclosure: I contributed a couple pieces on this.)
It’s been a zoo here today at Columbia: police surrounding the campus, entrances closed, having to show a school ID to get on campus.
After finishing classes, I went out and did some reporting, adding [...]

July in Indianapolis

I was inspired by this to revive my blog: http://www.howardowens.com/2008/the-best-and-brightest-of-journalisms-future-not-exactly-wired/
I also plan on creating a personal site soon, once my designer roommate has a chance to show me how.
I’ve spent the past six weeks in Indianapolis as a Pulliam Fellow, writing a lot about firefighter radios and the drama behind the board that runs the [...]

What I learned in school today

I woke up far too early today (7 a.m.) to get a glimpse of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam’s primary school. I accompanied Peter Ongolo, my neighbor, to the 6th grade English class today.
Inside, there were 12 rambunctious kids, almost all Jewish, as the Arab kids were on holiday, some for Christmas, some for Eid al-Adha, the [...]