Olafur Eliasson's waterfall at Governor's Island

Study: See the Crowd from a Distance

Classes offered this Fall

There aren't a lot of journalism classes being offered this fall, and the ones that are being offered meet at rather inconvenient times. For instance, Magazine Writing [JOURN 107] has been moved to an inconvenient time slot - MW 4:15 PM-5:47 PM same place - SG140 same teacher - MOREAU, MICHAEL M....

Poppin Caps on a Breezy Day

Today seems like a breeze, even though the temperature is expect to rise to near 90. Let's face it, DC is no picnic when it's hot AND the humidity is thick. Still, everything seems kosher today. Once again I am home. The sheet metal workers are here putting the air/heating duct system in the...

For the automobiliacs: Car’s best from the ’60s and ’70s

This was a great find at Take Note in Lower Hutt today. Take Note is a post office and gift shop run by my friend Mandeep but I have never bought a book from there before. I was surprised to find it displayed prominently and being an automobiliac I paid the $40 for it. My cover differs slightly: the...

Life QotW: Class Time

If you could take a class right now and learn anything in the world, what class would you take? There's several things I'd like to learn how to do, so I might take German, for one. My husband's family is German, and he really wants Gavin to know some German. (We bought Muzzy DVDs for Gavin- the big...

iPhone Customers Strike Back @ Reporter - gizmondo & youtube

KTLA 'Reporter' Makes Fun of iPhone Line-Sitters, Gets Called a Jackass on Live TV KTLA Reporter Eric Spillman went down to the local iPhone line on Friday to cover it for his station. His version of coverage consisted of standing next to the line and asking hard hitting questions such as "Have any...

Hysterically Lost

I can't do this, but somehow I end up and manage to do it anyway. I don't remember signing a contract to this life saying that I MUST take care of everyone. Somehow, I get the feeling that even if this were in a contract it would be nonnegotiable. Today I was all set to reflect on Friday's funeral...

ESTÚPIDO SAVANNAH - Saturday, July 12, 2008 11:55:51 AM

I know you got all excited cause it’s just so dirty but from where I sit you don’t have enough to go to print. We are simple creatures really. Sex and violence will attract us like actias selene to an exothermic reaction. So it is no wonder the Savannah Morning News, in its desire to profit from...

Farewell, Tony Snow

I didn’t even hear about this bad news till I read it on Zak’s blog, then hunted for a piece on the wires. Journalism has lost one of its classiest, most decent practitioners. Whether you agreed with his politics or not, Tony Snow had decency. Washington, DC, July 12 Former White House...

What The Fuck?

Yesterday, I stumbled across this post by CupCate. It tells a little bit about the MASSIVE uproar in the blogging world about the editors on the Gawker owned site Jezebel. Who frankly deserve a slap. So you can see what's causing such a big fuss, watch these: It gets worse! The women you're watching...

The new news competition...

On Friday, Minnesota Public Radio's Midday program will air a discussion about the changes in journalism. Average people who just consume news sat with people in the press who are dedicated to reforming the way it's done. As the moderator of this forum - I sometimes played devil's advocate. One...

Letter from the Editor

Welcome to The Insider! It might surprise readers to learn that this magazine has been 71 years in the making. The student body of 1927 arrived on campus, a rented wing at Glendale Union High School, to find that the journalism department had already started a newspaper, The Galleon, to keep them...

Fairer reporting on recent murders

In the last month, two New Zealanders were murdered—but I have to hand it to the mainstream media, especially TV3 and National Radio, for covering these without racial bias. Ten years ago, the Chinese ethnicity of the victims would have been made to be a big deal. Indeed, any crime involving east...

the honor's all mine

When I was a kid and my mum took me out gallivanting, she sometimes bumped into ex-pals and ex-classmates. The exclamation of choice was always, "It's a small world after all!" And I would snigger. I thought such a notion was parochial and small-town. I didn't believe we were really all that...

What are "Signs" of our life?

Mr. Lucky's signs (written about in my last post) got me to thinking ... Just what signs have you seen that stand out... that make you wonder... that say something more about who we are? American Public Media, my employer, produces everything from news stories for the statewide Minnesota Public...

Write your own Guardian News

Brand Republic is reporting that Guardian Unlimited, the most visited UK newspaper online, is set to jump on the social networking bandwagon after striking a deal with Pluck, a provider of social networking platforms. The deal will see Guardian News and Media, which publishes The Guardian and The...

Miscellany

Neil Gaiman interviews Terry Pratchett. It's great. That is all. Amanda Ripley explains why I'm so scared of flying. She's come up with the dread equation - apparently dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness. If I'm reading this right, it doesn't...

Life in the Fishbowl

So how does it feel my journalism compadres? How do you enjoy the life of being examined from every corner, judged on every output? Once upon a time we'd have to deal with angry phone calls or letter to the editor. We could field the call and chalk it up to "another disgruntled...

Various Comments by Glen Greenwald - A Must Read

Right-wing figures call for the president to ignore the Supreme Court and for the shooting deaths of dissidents. Journalists demand that their subjects be treated respectfully. Democratic capitulation on FISA is imminent. Read here