Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Samir Husni “Mr. Magazine”
http://www.hereandnow.org/2010/03/rundown-310-2/
For years, Samir Husni has been collected the first editions of new magazines. He says he can go to a newstand, look at the magazines for sale, and figure out who’s living nearby and what they’re interested in. He’s now a professor at the University of Mississippi’s School of Journalism; he’s also director of the school’s Magazine Innovation Center. We speak with “Mr. Magazine” about which magazines are dying and which are thriving.
http://www.mrmagazine.com/
For years, Samir Husni has been collected the first editions of new magazines. He says he can go to a newstand, look at the magazines for sale, and figure out who’s living nearby and what they’re interested in. He’s now a professor at the University of Mississippi’s School of Journalism; he’s also director of the school’s Magazine Innovation Center. We speak with “Mr. Magazine” about which magazines are dying and which are thriving.
http://www.mrmagazine.com/
Monday, March 01, 2010
Book World: Review of Get Me Out by Randi Hutter Epstein
GET ME OUT
A History of Childbirth From the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank
By Randi Hutter Epstein
Norton. 302 pp. $24.95
Washington Post book review
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/15/AR2010011501391.html
Seven hundred years ago a Spanish doctor named Arnold of Villanova wanted to make a baby. He put semen in a womb-shaped vase and waited. The result was disappointing. We can shake our head at the naiveté of believing sperm contains teeny-tiny human beings just needing the proper place to grow. But physician and medical journalist Randi Hutter Epstein is here to tell us in "Get Me Out," her engrossing survey of the history of childbirth, that even with all of today's whiz-bang technology, "We are still in the dark about so many things that go into making babies."
Writing that pregnancy has always been "a wonderful blend of custom and science," Epstein takes us on a delightful romp through past guides that are filled with a whole lot of do-this-but-avoid-that advice. "You've got to be kidding me" will be the reaction to most of it. For instance, on the recommendation of one folk healer, 16th-century French queen Catherine de Medici drank mare's urine and soaked in cow manure in order to get pregnant.
The history of childbirth is filled with grief as well as joy, and not all the stories amuse. I shuddered at the descriptions of medieval C-sections, American slaves used as gynecological guinea pigs and the horrific effects of synthetic estrogen given to pregnant women in high doses from the late 1930s to the early '70s. Later, the author raises questions about the moral, legal and medical consequences of the growing -- and little-regulated -- fertility industry. The description of doctors watching over frozen, sperm-filled vials echoes, however faintly, the story of Arnold of Villanova and his vase. Childbirth has come a very long way since that experiment, but perhaps not as far as we would like to think.
A History of Childbirth From the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank
By Randi Hutter Epstein
Norton. 302 pp. $24.95
Washington Post book review
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/15/AR2010011501391.html
Seven hundred years ago a Spanish doctor named Arnold of Villanova wanted to make a baby. He put semen in a womb-shaped vase and waited. The result was disappointing. We can shake our head at the naiveté of believing sperm contains teeny-tiny human beings just needing the proper place to grow. But physician and medical journalist Randi Hutter Epstein is here to tell us in "Get Me Out," her engrossing survey of the history of childbirth, that even with all of today's whiz-bang technology, "We are still in the dark about so many things that go into making babies."
Writing that pregnancy has always been "a wonderful blend of custom and science," Epstein takes us on a delightful romp through past guides that are filled with a whole lot of do-this-but-avoid-that advice. "You've got to be kidding me" will be the reaction to most of it. For instance, on the recommendation of one folk healer, 16th-century French queen Catherine de Medici drank mare's urine and soaked in cow manure in order to get pregnant.
The history of childbirth is filled with grief as well as joy, and not all the stories amuse. I shuddered at the descriptions of medieval C-sections, American slaves used as gynecological guinea pigs and the horrific effects of synthetic estrogen given to pregnant women in high doses from the late 1930s to the early '70s. Later, the author raises questions about the moral, legal and medical consequences of the growing -- and little-regulated -- fertility industry. The description of doctors watching over frozen, sperm-filled vials echoes, however faintly, the story of Arnold of Villanova and his vase. Childbirth has come a very long way since that experiment, but perhaps not as far as we would like to think.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)
http://iamcr.org/
Announcement for the upcoming conference in July.
Preparations continue for IAMCR's 2010 Conference to be held in Braga, Portugal, from 18-22 July 2010.
The deadline for submitting abstracts has passed. Two thousand abstracts were submitted and the review process is now taking place. Announcement of acceptances will be made on March 15 and full papers are due on April 30.
Registration is now open on the conference website. Please note, there are three registration phases. Register before 30 April to qualify for a €150 discount or before 25 June to qualify for a discount of €50.
If you are a facebook user and will be attending the conference, you might want to join the conference page.
Announcement for the upcoming conference in July.
Preparations continue for IAMCR's 2010 Conference to be held in Braga, Portugal, from 18-22 July 2010.
The deadline for submitting abstracts has passed. Two thousand abstracts were submitted and the review process is now taking place. Announcement of acceptances will be made on March 15 and full papers are due on April 30.
Registration is now open on the conference website. Please note, there are three registration phases. Register before 30 April to qualify for a €150 discount or before 25 June to qualify for a discount of €50.
If you are a facebook user and will be attending the conference, you might want to join the conference page.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Alexander Haig - a former secretary of state
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/politics/21haig.html?hp
Alexander M. Haig Jr. Dies at 85, Commanding White House Aide
Henry A. Kissinger, his mentor and master in the Nixon White House, also said the nation owed Mr. Haig its gratitude for steering the ship of state through dangerous waters in the final days of the Nixon era. “By sheer willpower, dedication and self-discipline, he held the government together,” Mr. Kissinger wrote in the memoir “Years of Upheaval.”
“There were three others ahead of Mr. Haig in the constitutional succession.”
Serving the Nixon White House from 1969 to 1974, Mr. Haig went from colonel to four-star general without holding a major battlefield command, an extraordinary rise with few if any precedents in American military history.
Mr. Haig never lost his will. But he frequently lost his composure as Mr. Reagan’s secretary of state. As a consequence, he lost both his job and his standing in the American government.
Mr. Nixon had privately suggested to the Reagan transition team that Mr. Haig would make a great secretary of state. Upon his appointment, Mr. Haig declared himself “the vicar of foreign policy” — in the Roman Catholic Church, to which he belonged, the pope is the “vicar of Christ” — but he soon became an apostate in the new administration.
He alienated his affable commander in chief and the vice president George H. W. Bush, whose national security aide, Donald P. Gregg, described Mr. Haig as “a cobra among garter snakes.”
Mr. Haig served for 17 months before Mr. Reagan dismissed him with a one-page letter on June 24, 1982.
Those months were marked by a largely covert paramilitary campaign against Central American leftists, a heightening of nuclear tensions with the Soviet Union, and dismay among American allies about the lurching course of American foreign policy.
Alexander M. Haig Jr. Dies at 85, Commanding White House Aide
Henry A. Kissinger, his mentor and master in the Nixon White House, also said the nation owed Mr. Haig its gratitude for steering the ship of state through dangerous waters in the final days of the Nixon era. “By sheer willpower, dedication and self-discipline, he held the government together,” Mr. Kissinger wrote in the memoir “Years of Upheaval.”
“There were three others ahead of Mr. Haig in the constitutional succession.”
Serving the Nixon White House from 1969 to 1974, Mr. Haig went from colonel to four-star general without holding a major battlefield command, an extraordinary rise with few if any precedents in American military history.
Mr. Haig never lost his will. But he frequently lost his composure as Mr. Reagan’s secretary of state. As a consequence, he lost both his job and his standing in the American government.
Mr. Nixon had privately suggested to the Reagan transition team that Mr. Haig would make a great secretary of state. Upon his appointment, Mr. Haig declared himself “the vicar of foreign policy” — in the Roman Catholic Church, to which he belonged, the pope is the “vicar of Christ” — but he soon became an apostate in the new administration.
He alienated his affable commander in chief and the vice president George H. W. Bush, whose national security aide, Donald P. Gregg, described Mr. Haig as “a cobra among garter snakes.”
Mr. Haig served for 17 months before Mr. Reagan dismissed him with a one-page letter on June 24, 1982.
Those months were marked by a largely covert paramilitary campaign against Central American leftists, a heightening of nuclear tensions with the Soviet Union, and dismay among American allies about the lurching course of American foreign policy.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Advanced TV News Feb. 19, 2010
popping sound
You can always scale back
How to become a TV news reporter
The Television Storyteller: A Guide for TV Journalists
Regular Price: $25.95
http://www.johnmcquiston.com/dvd.html
A Reporter's Guide to the Art of Television Storytelling
You can always scale back
How to become a TV news reporter
The Television Storyteller: A Guide for TV Journalists
Regular Price: $25.95
http://www.johnmcquiston.com/dvd.html
A Reporter's Guide to the Art of Television Storytelling
Monday, February 15, 2010
Possible Programs
Radio
Talk of Hope - Daily magazine show
This Week at Holland - Weekly news magazine
Interview - Audio cast of "Interview," a TV program.
TV
Interview - talk with guest speakers and other people of certain interesting subjects
History of Journalism
Theory of Broadcasting
New Media and Society
Talk of Hope - Daily magazine show
This Week at Holland - Weekly news magazine
Interview - Audio cast of "Interview," a TV program.
TV
Interview - talk with guest speakers and other people of certain interesting subjects
History of Journalism
Theory of Broadcasting
New Media and Society
Friday, February 12, 2010
Camera Audio - Bob and Angela Feb 12
http://www.lynda.com/ annual subscription $375
Multi Box (Full Feed) - getting sound from console
I am in focus
Then I look like a smear
Auto iris, focus, and audio are always undependable
Many times you get sounds that are very bushily
On board mic
On camera mic
rustling sound
people are shifting around
A microphone doesn't have a brain
lavalier mic
Shotgun mic - when you're far away from the subject but still getting sound
You have to have always carry a set of headphones and white clothes for white balance
16 bit - 2 channel audio FCP expects
12 bit - allows you four simultaneous channel, less fidelity
Put it in record mode and record your voice
I would punch the guy in the face - Bob referring to a guy in the video
Tool - Voice Over
It will start giving me 5 second outcues like beep beep beep
It does not run over because you have set in and out
You have to create another folder for your different project
microphone pick-up patterns
Multi Box (Full Feed) - getting sound from console
I am in focus
Then I look like a smear
Auto iris, focus, and audio are always undependable
Many times you get sounds that are very bushily
On board mic
On camera mic
rustling sound
people are shifting around
A microphone doesn't have a brain
lavalier mic
Shotgun mic - when you're far away from the subject but still getting sound
You have to have always carry a set of headphones and white clothes for white balance
16 bit - 2 channel audio FCP expects
12 bit - allows you four simultaneous channel, less fidelity
Put it in record mode and record your voice
I would punch the guy in the face - Bob referring to a guy in the video
Tool - Voice Over
It will start giving me 5 second outcues like beep beep beep
It does not run over because you have set in and out
You have to create another folder for your different project
microphone pick-up patterns
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Russians Rally Around a Falling Enclave
New York Times Article
Mr. Luzhkov, who in his 18 years as mayor has not been given to tolerating affronts to his authority, has stood firm. In an interview published Thursday in the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, he called the residents “impostors” squatting on land that he said was zoned to be a park. “These cottages are located in a protected environmental zone,” he said. “The city has been saying for years that construction in this area was forbidden.”
Mr. Luzhkov, who in his 18 years as mayor has not been given to tolerating affronts to his authority, has stood firm. In an interview published Thursday in the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, he called the residents “impostors” squatting on land that he said was zoned to be a park. “These cottages are located in a protected environmental zone,” he said. “The city has been saying for years that construction in this area was forbidden.”
Friday, January 29, 2010
UI Spring & Summer Academic Calendar
Friday, February 26 2010
May degree applications due for master's and doctoral candidates in the Graduate College, 4:30 p.m.
Monday, March 01 2010
Late degree application fee in effect today for master's and doctoral candidates in the Graduate College
Friday, March 12 2010
Plans of study for May master's recipients and final exam requests for all May graduates due at Graduate College
Thursday, March 25 2010
First deposit of thesis due at Graduate College
Wednesday, April 28 2010
Final exam reports due at Graduate College
Wednesday, May 05 2010
Final thesis deposit due at Graduate College
Saturday, May 15 2010
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Commencement, Carver Hawkeye Arena, 9 a.m.
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Thursday, June 10 2010
Degree applications due for Summer graduates, 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 22 2010
Plans of study for Summer master's recipients and final exam requests for all Summer graduates due at Graduate College
Thursday, July 01 2010
First deposit of thesis due at Graduate College
Friday, July 16 2010
Final exam reports due at Graduate College
Wednesday, July 21 2010
Final deposit of thesis due at Graduate College
Friday, July 30 2010
Summer Session degree conferral date
May degree applications due for master's and doctoral candidates in the Graduate College, 4:30 p.m.
Monday, March 01 2010
Late degree application fee in effect today for master's and doctoral candidates in the Graduate College
Friday, March 12 2010
Plans of study for May master's recipients and final exam requests for all May graduates due at Graduate College
Thursday, March 25 2010
First deposit of thesis due at Graduate College
Wednesday, April 28 2010
Final exam reports due at Graduate College
Wednesday, May 05 2010
Final thesis deposit due at Graduate College
Saturday, May 15 2010
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Commencement, Carver Hawkeye Arena, 9 a.m.
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Thursday, June 10 2010
Degree applications due for Summer graduates, 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 22 2010
Plans of study for Summer master's recipients and final exam requests for all Summer graduates due at Graduate College
Thursday, July 01 2010
First deposit of thesis due at Graduate College
Friday, July 16 2010
Final exam reports due at Graduate College
Wednesday, July 21 2010
Final deposit of thesis due at Graduate College
Friday, July 30 2010
Summer Session degree conferral date
Friday, January 15, 2010
From post-industrial to post-modern society
From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society: New Theories of the Contemporary World
Krishan Kumar
It has been one of the notable features of the idea of the information society that, just as with the idea of post-industrial society, its exposition and explication in the scholarly literature and at academic conferences have been accompanied by extensive popularization in the mass media and through journalistic best-sellers. Alvin Toffler, who popularized the post-industrial idea in Future Shock, has had an even greater success with his popularizatin of the idea of the information society in The Third Wave (1981). Almost equally successful has been John Naisbitt's bite-size rendering of the idea in Megatrends (1984). These popular works make helpfully explicit what are often understated or over-qualified positions in the writings of more cautiously-minded academics. In what follows I shall use Daniel Bell for the main statement of the thesis of the information society; Toffler, Naisbitt and other popularizers can supply, where necessary, the clarifying chorus (Kumar, 1995, p. 9)
Krishan Kumar
It has been one of the notable features of the idea of the information society that, just as with the idea of post-industrial society, its exposition and explication in the scholarly literature and at academic conferences have been accompanied by extensive popularization in the mass media and through journalistic best-sellers. Alvin Toffler, who popularized the post-industrial idea in Future Shock, has had an even greater success with his popularizatin of the idea of the information society in The Third Wave (1981). Almost equally successful has been John Naisbitt's bite-size rendering of the idea in Megatrends (1984). These popular works make helpfully explicit what are often understated or over-qualified positions in the writings of more cautiously-minded academics. In what follows I shall use Daniel Bell for the main statement of the thesis of the information society; Toffler, Naisbitt and other popularizers can supply, where necessary, the clarifying chorus (Kumar, 1995, p. 9)
Monday, January 11, 2010
Smart Phone and Bar-Codes - NYT Jan. 11. 2010
From Print to Phone to Web. And a Sale?
Print may be a flat medium, but that has not stopped magazine publishers from trying to add dimension to their pages. For at least a decade, they have been experimenting with bar codes and icons that could take readers to Web sites, trying to add a bit of Internetlike interactivity to their pages.
But the average consumer did not own a bar-code reader — until now. With the sudden ubiquity of smartphones, which have apps that can read bar codes, and cameraphones, which can easily snap pictures of icons, magazines like Esquire and InStyle are adding interactive graphics to their articles, while Entertainment Weekly and Star are including them in ads.
Print may be a flat medium, but that has not stopped magazine publishers from trying to add dimension to their pages. For at least a decade, they have been experimenting with bar codes and icons that could take readers to Web sites, trying to add a bit of Internetlike interactivity to their pages.
But the average consumer did not own a bar-code reader — until now. With the sudden ubiquity of smartphones, which have apps that can read bar codes, and cameraphones, which can easily snap pictures of icons, magazines like Esquire and InStyle are adding interactive graphics to their articles, while Entertainment Weekly and Star are including them in ads.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Article on Roger Ailes in NYT Jan. 10, 2010
“Like Richard Nixon, like Spiro Agnew, Fox News can never see itself as the attacker,” he said. “They are always playing defense because they believe they are always under attack, which attracts people that have the same personality formation. By bringing that mind-set, plus the high energy seamless stream of the aggression of talk radio, he has found an audience.”
A Fox Chief at the Pinnacle of Media and Politics
A Fox Chief at the Pinnacle of Media and Politics
Friday, January 08, 2010
NBC Wants Leno Back in Old Slot NYT Jan. 8, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/business/media/08leno.html?hp
The moves are being driven by pressure from NBC’s affiliated stations, which have seen ratings for their late-night local newscasts plummet since September. That was when NBC began “The Jay Leno Show,” a prime-time version of Mr. Leno’s old late-night show. Mr. O’Brien succeeded Mr. Leno as host of “The Tonight Show” in June.
Though Mr. Leno’s prime-time show has not fallen below the ratings guarantees that NBC gave to advertisers, it has averaged only about five million viewers a night. The NBC station managers have blamed consistently low lead-in audiences for much of the falloff in their news ratings — and local stations rely on news programs for the majority of their revenue. The affiliates are due to meet with NBC on Jan. 21.
The moves are being driven by pressure from NBC’s affiliated stations, which have seen ratings for their late-night local newscasts plummet since September. That was when NBC began “The Jay Leno Show,” a prime-time version of Mr. Leno’s old late-night show. Mr. O’Brien succeeded Mr. Leno as host of “The Tonight Show” in June.
Though Mr. Leno’s prime-time show has not fallen below the ratings guarantees that NBC gave to advertisers, it has averaged only about five million viewers a night. The NBC station managers have blamed consistently low lead-in audiences for much of the falloff in their news ratings — and local stations rely on news programs for the majority of their revenue. The affiliates are due to meet with NBC on Jan. 21.
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Associated Press Sports Editors
http://apse.dallasnews.com/sji/sjiapplication.html
Attention: Aspiring Sports Journalists
Story updated on Sept. 15, 2009
Application process
The Sports Journalism Institute is now accepting applications for its 18th class. To get the application, please go to www.sportsjournalisminstitute.org. This program is a very critical program in attempting to diversify sports departments especially with this year's Racial and Gender Report Card on America's sports departments (.pdf).
The 2010 Sports Journalism Institute is a nine-week training and internship program for college students interested in sports journalism careers. The Institute is designed to attract talented students to print journalism through opportunities in sports reporting and editing and enhance racial and gender diversity in sports departments of newspapers nationwide. The program will run from June 4-Aug. 6, 2010.
The Sports Journalism Institute, which works with the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), is funded by the Tribune Foundation, Hearst Newspapers/Houston Chronicle, Associated Press Sports Editors and the New York Daily News. The classrooom training portion will be hosted by the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., and will run June 4-13; paid eight-week internships at newspapers (to be determined individually).
The program, which began in 1993, has more than 150 graduates who have gone on to work at newspapers throughout the country.
Attention: Aspiring Sports Journalists
Story updated on Sept. 15, 2009
Application process
The Sports Journalism Institute is now accepting applications for its 18th class. To get the application, please go to www.sportsjournalisminstitute.org. This program is a very critical program in attempting to diversify sports departments especially with this year's Racial and Gender Report Card on America's sports departments (.pdf).
The 2010 Sports Journalism Institute is a nine-week training and internship program for college students interested in sports journalism careers. The Institute is designed to attract talented students to print journalism through opportunities in sports reporting and editing and enhance racial and gender diversity in sports departments of newspapers nationwide. The program will run from June 4-Aug. 6, 2010.
The Sports Journalism Institute, which works with the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), is funded by the Tribune Foundation, Hearst Newspapers/Houston Chronicle, Associated Press Sports Editors and the New York Daily News. The classrooom training portion will be hosted by the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., and will run June 4-13; paid eight-week internships at newspapers (to be determined individually).
The program, which began in 1993, has more than 150 graduates who have gone on to work at newspapers throughout the country.
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