Posted in ethics, new media, online, technology, tagged ethics, multimedia, NY Times, reader comments on November 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The New York Times began adding a reader comments option to its news stories this week. Many newspapers have been doing this for some time. There are a few holdouts. Previously, the Times was only allowing comments to its blogs, and those were moderated. The reader comments to the news stories will also be moderated [...]
Posted in entertainment, journalism movies, resources, tagged entertainment, film, journalism, movies, reporters on November 7, 2007 | No Comments »
A popular pastime of CMA members is to see how many movies they can name that are about journalism or in some way feature a main character that is involved in journalism as a profession. The Inside CMA blog is taking the fun away from that by compiling a list of these many titles in [...]
Posted in assessment, board news, tagged assessment, CAS on November 5, 2007 | No Comments »
The CMA board met with the executive director of the Council for the Advancement of Standards during the National College Media Convention in Washington, D.C., to discuss a potential partnership that would create a set of suggested guidelines for assessing student media. Several CMA members have recently posed questions about assessment guidelines, and CAS is [...]
Posted in board news, convention on November 5, 2007 | No Comments »
… and in with the new (board).
For the record, that is one of my most despised clichés of all time. But I couldn’t think of anything any more clever (probably the same excuse by many a headline writer).
But your new CMA board officially took office Oct. 26 at the National College Media Convention in Washington, [...]
Posted in SPLC, awards, press freedom, tagged award, censorship, Grambling state, press freedom, SPLC on November 5, 2007 | No Comments »
The Student Press Law Center awarded Daryl D. Smith, the former editor of The Gramblinite at Grambling State University, the 2007 College Press Freedom Award. Smith fought efforts of the administration to impose review on the paper. The administration suspended operations of the paper for “quality control” purposes, mainly because the provost complained of negative [...]
Posted in law on November 2, 2007 | No Comments »
The FERPA gopher poked its head up again recently on a college campus when a university administrator tried to make the argument that photos taken by a student journalist of an injured soccer player on the sidelines of a game would violate FERPA. The simple answer is that this is not a FERPA violation.
James Tidwell [...]
Posted in ethics, feature writing, listserv, online, textbooks on November 2, 2007 | No Comments »
This week on the CMA listserv. . .
To Party or Not to Party: Should a reporter declare political affiliation or make his or her political affiliation known? Opinions varied widely, but most advisers at least agreed in principle that true “objectivity” is unattainable. Subjective decisions are made daily, but all reporters should at least recognize [...]
Posted in awards, convention on November 2, 2007 | No Comments »
CMA recognized several advisers last week at the Fall National Media Convention for their contributions to college media.
Inducted into the CMA Hall of Fame was Karen Bosley of Ocean County College, where she is the adviser of The Viking News. Karen has been at OCC for 35 of her 41 years as an educator. Most [...]
Posted in listserv, textbooks, tagged blog cma listserv on November 1, 2007 | No Comments »
CMA.blog is up and running, albeit a bit creakily. Give it time. The plan is to post college media news and information as it happens. And also a place to catalog common discussion threads from the listserv, such as textbook recommendations, member favorites, etc. We hope that with your help and ideas, we can make [...]
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