J-school skills
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Interesting report on Editor & Publisher on what college journalism students are learning in the way of multimedia. No surprise, but most of what they’re learning, they’re learning on their own.
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‘Mama, can we go the newspaper way?’
1 comment June 26th, 2008
Brought my kids, Luke and Abraham, with me into work a few mornings this week because they had Vacation Bible School right around the corner at St. James. They love coming into the newsroom. For the first time, we went into the building from the back and they got to see the GO section running on the press and being carried by the “gripper” into the packaging department. Boy, they were fascinated. It was hard to drag them up to the newsroom after that.
Now, they ask if we can take the “newspaper way” into the building.
Their wide-eyed wonder over what we do here each day made me smile. Whether it’s putting news and information in print or via the World Wide Web, we do make a difference each and every day in the community. And, yes, I’m sure there’s some snarky response to that. But love us or hate us, we are the primary source of news and information in this community. And that means something.
Here’s a shot of my boys at my sister’s April wedding.
Abe, 5, and Luke, 6
