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April | 2010 | Social Issues in Journalism

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Social Issues in Journalism. Jack J. Valenti School of Communication. Archive for April 2010. Laquo; Social Issues in Journalism home page. Laquo; Older Entries. April 28, 2010. Identify your theme. Write it in a statement. Don’t make it too broad. Think of it as a trend. Something is happening that affects a lot of people. Then apply the questions rigorously to the statement. What is this happening? What’s the scope? What are the reasons? If this trend continues, what is likely to be the result? As I ha...

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February | 2009 | Social Issues in Journalism

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Social Issues in Journalism. Jack J. Valenti School of Communication. Archive for February 2009. Laquo; Social Issues in Journalism home page. Laquo; Older Entries. Make your postings informative, not opinionated. February 27, 2009. Be the first to comment. Adding depth to your blog. February 24, 2009. The New York Times offers a front page. Story about the continuing problems of banks and car companies. You can’t go wrong reading a file of stories in the Times. You’ll have a firm foundat...The governmen...

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February | 2010 | Social Issues in Journalism

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Social Issues in Journalism. Jack J. Valenti School of Communication. Archive for February 2010. Laquo; Social Issues in Journalism home page. Regional meeting of NAHJ. February 28, 2010. The National Association of Hispanic Journalists hosts its region five meeting at Rice University March 19-20. Here’s a link to registration. The National Association of Hispanic Journalists hosts its region five meeting at Rice University March 19-20. Here’s a link to registration. Be the first to comment. This semeste...

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January | 2009 | Social Issues in Journalism

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Social Issues in Journalism. Jack J. Valenti School of Communication. Archive for January 2009. Laquo; Social Issues in Journalism home page. The wall of shame. January 31, 2009. The Saturday New York Times business writers weighed in on the Wall Street bonuses and here’s one detail. About which bank spent our tax money on bonuses. Citigroup lost $19 billion last year and paid out $4 billion in bonuses. No names are given in the story or in Joe Nocera’s column. Those Shameful Wall Street Bonuses. Maybe a...

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January | 2010 | Social Issues in Journalism

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Social Issues in Journalism. Jack J. Valenti School of Communication. Archive for January 2010. Laquo; Social Issues in Journalism home page. The informational nature of blogs. January 27, 2010. One of the goals of this class is explore the vast resources of the Internet. Just writing Haiti in Google and clicking won’t get you a decent understanding of the story. It will get you 195 million hits in 1.4 seconds, but it won’t get you a helpful vision of what’s going on in Haiti. Be the first to comment.

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May | 2009 | Social Issues in Journalism

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Social Issues in Journalism. Jack J. Valenti School of Communication. Archive for May 2009. Laquo; Social Issues in Journalism home page. The best blogs of the semester. May 14, 2009. Other blogs I thought were strong were Job Tennant’s recent posts on “green” technology and UH, and Marylu Rodriguez’s coverage of a talk by Rice sociologists about whether immigrants are good Americans. Thank you again for a great semester and for your work and conversation. I was a pleasure to get to know you.

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March | 2010 | Social Issues in Journalism

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Social Issues in Journalism. Jack J. Valenti School of Communication. Archive for March 2010. Laquo; Social Issues in Journalism home page. Post a research plan. March 29, 2010. As I was talking to a student Wednesday night, it hit me that I have neglected to re-emphasize the tool that will help you immediately, and that is “Planning and Execution,” by Bill Blundell. I am sending it to you again, just to make sure you know what I’m asking you to do:. Do this by Monday evening. Use the plan. Read the ...

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March | 2009 | Social Issues in Journalism

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Social Issues in Journalism. Jack J. Valenti School of Communication. Archive for March 2009. Laquo; Social Issues in Journalism home page. 8220;Most Wanted” feature of NY Times. March 31, 2009. The “Most Wanted”. Feature of the Monday NY Times business section appears today in the online edition. Be the first to comment. The future of journalism. March 30, 2009. Where will the jobs be? What is happening with this enormously powerful technology? I think I can safely say that what we’re going throug...

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April | 2009 | Social Issues in Journalism

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Social Issues in Journalism. Jack J. Valenti School of Communication. Archive for April 2009. Laquo; Social Issues in Journalism home page. Laquo; Older Entries. Building a bank of resources. April 29, 2009. Alex has nailed t he resources section of her blog. Better than anyone. Notice the variety and depth of the links: columnists, publications, government sites. But what if blogs are a way of sharing information, not opinions? So work on that bank of resources. Polish it up. Be the first to comment.