The Society for Collegiate Journalists at SCAD http://blog.scad.edu/scj Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:30:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Eat and Educate with Jacob Menache http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2011/01/24/eat-and-educate-with-jacob-menache/ http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2011/01/24/eat-and-educate-with-jacob-menache/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:27:17 +0000 scj http://blog.scad.edu/scj/?p=57 At noon Friday, Jan. 28, in the first floor conference room of Keys Hall, 516 Abercorn St., we’ll hold a talk in our Eat and Educate series.
We’ll serve lunch and Jacob Menache, video programming director for District, will be covering basic video shooting techniques and editing tips. Anyone interested in doing any video work is encouraged to attend, and those wanting to help produce documentaries for the upcoming District Docs event are strongly encouraged to attend.
You don’t have to be a member of SCJ to attend this event. All SCAD students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend. The Eat and Educate series are talks and free food held approximately twice a month. The series seeks to nourish the minds and stomachs of the SCAD community, and focuses on all topics related to media. Talks will be presented by industry professionals, as well as current students participating in Student Media.
To reserve a space at the talk, please e-mail abennett@scad.edu.
]]> http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2011/01/24/eat-and-educate-with-jacob-menache/feed/ 1 Professor Beth Concepción talks TV at our Eat and Educate series http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2010/02/04/professor-beth-concepcion-talks-tv-at-our-eat-and-educate-series/ http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2010/02/04/professor-beth-concepcion-talks-tv-at-our-eat-and-educate-series/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:12:18 +0000 scj http://blog.scad.edu/scj/?p=51 At 9 a.m. Friday, Feb. 5, in the first floor conference room of Keys Hall, we’ll hold a talk in our Eat and Educate series, sponsored by the SCAD chapter of the Society for Collegiate Journalists (SCJ).

We’ll be serving breakfast and Beth Concepción, a writing professor at SCAD, will present a talk on television programming and promotion. District will soon be launching a series of Web shows, and anyone interested in having a TV show on the District site is encouraged to attend this talk.

You don’t have to be a member of SCJ to attend this event. All SCAD students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend. The Eat and Educate series are talks and free food held twice a month. The series seeks to nourish the minds and stomachs of the SCAD community, and focuses on all topics related to media. Talks will be presented by industry professionals, as well as current students participating in Student Media. For more information about SCJ, visit http://blog.scad.edu/scj/.

To reserve a space at the talk, please e-mail abennett@scad.edu.

Speaker bio:
Beth Concepción is a writing professor at SCAD who specializes in news writing/editing, ethics, marketing and new media. She has more than 20 years of experience in print/broadcast journalism and public relations. Concepción earned a B.A. in English, B.S. in geosciences, M.A. and M.F.A. in media and performing arts, and is working on her Ph.D. in journalism and mass communications.

]]> http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2010/02/04/professor-beth-concepcion-talks-tv-at-our-eat-and-educate-series/feed/ 1 SCAD Sustainability Council panel discussion http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2010/01/19/scad-sustainability-council-panel-discussion/ http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2010/01/19/scad-sustainability-council-panel-discussion/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:12:30 +0000 scj http://blog.scad.edu/scj/?p=49 The SCAD Sustainability Council and the SCAD chapter of the Society for Collegiate Journalists are holding a panel discussion on how media coverage has shaped public understanding of sustainability. It will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 27, from 7-9 p.m. at the River Club.

Scheduled to participate are Bill Dawers, a columnist for the Savannah Morning News, Orlando Montoya, news producer for Georgia Public Radio, and Jim Morekis, editor-in-chief of Connect Savannah.

Admission is free, and open to those with a SCAD ID.

]]> http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2010/01/19/scad-sustainability-council-panel-discussion/feed/ 0 Eat and Educate series http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2009/12/23/eat-and-educate-series/ http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2009/12/23/eat-and-educate-series/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:30:36 +0000 scj http://blog.scad.edu/scj/?p=44 Lisa Timmons, editor and senior creative director for celebrity gossip blog A Socialite’s Life will give a talk at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 6 in the first floor conference room of Keys Hall, 516 Abercorn St.

The talk is the first in the eat and educate series, sponsored by the SCAD chapter of the Society for Collegiate Journalists (SCJ).

We will be serving free breakfast and Timmons will talk about emerging job opportunities in new media, and how to prepare yourself accordingly.

All SCAD students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend. To reserve a seat at the talk, please e-mail abennett@scad.edu.

The eat and educate series are talks and free food held twice a month. The series seeks to nourish the minds and stomachs of the SCAD community, and focuses on any and all topics related to media. Talks will be presented by industry professionals, as well as current students participating in Student Media. For more information about SCJ, visit http://blog.scad.edu/scj/.

]]> http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2009/12/23/eat-and-educate-series/feed/ 1 My first stylebook is digital http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2009/09/28/my-first-stylebook-is-digital/ http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2009/09/28/my-first-stylebook-is-digital/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:59:34 +0000 scj http://blog.scad.edu/scj/?p=41 I have a confession. I didn’t own an AP Stylebook until today.

The AP released an AP Stylebook app for the iPhone this morning with a basic set of features that will make it a must for the mobile journalist of our time.

The app itself is broken into easily accessible categories like all, main, business, sports and punctuation. Each of these are searchable, a history is created of the items you view, you can mark items as a favorite, and you can add notes to each item. Custom entries can also be created that’ll allow you to keep your organizations own style guides with you all the time.

The only setting available now is the ability to change the font size.

The app costs $28.99, more than the print or Web editions, but it’s more portable and easier to use so I think it’s worth it. If you buy the 2009 edition they’re giving you the 2010 edition for free.

]]> http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2009/09/28/my-first-stylebook-is-digital/feed/ 0 Newspaper Web stats and how they’ve grown http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2009/09/22/newspaper-web-stats-and-how-theyve-grown/ http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2009/09/22/newspaper-web-stats-and-how-theyve-grown/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:17:57 +0000 scj http://blog.scad.edu/scj/?p=34 Nielsen Online published the top 30 newspaper Web sites for the month of August, and they’re compared to the previous two months here. I’ve pasted them below.

It’s interesting to read the data to see which sites do best. The New York Times, which has made great strides to succeed in the online space, is in first. It dropped in the month of July, but otherwise remained fairly consistent at a little over 17 million.

Nicholas Carlson, in a blog post on The Business Insider Web site, said that it would be cheaper for the Times to send each subscriber a Kindle and have them read the news that way. The Times apparently spends more than $644 million to print and distribute the paper each year. He ends his post by saying, “What we’re trying to say is that as a technology for delivering the news, newsprint isn’t just expensive and inefficient; it’s laughably so.”

The Times seems to agree. They’ve begun polling print subscribers to see how much they’d be willing to pay for a subscription to their online product. Five dollars per month seems to be the consensus.

I’d pay that to read the Times each month, especially considering they provide more on the Web than they do in the printed product, and especially considering I pay 15 a month for the Times Reader software.

If they charged $5 per month to their 17 million online readers, and assuming they all stayed, they’d make $85 million a month, or just over one billion dollars a year. Given the Times Company’s financial woes we should not be surprised when the Times stops printing in the next few years.

Indeed, in Feb. 2007 the publisher of the Times said, “I really don’t know whether we’ll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don’t care either. The Internet is a wonderful place to be, and we’re leading there.”

It should be noted that when the publisher said that in 2007 they had 1.5 million visits per month.

The numbers below are in millions of unique visitors.

  • Website — August — July — June
  • NYTimes.com — 17.1 — 14.2 — 17.4
  • washingtonopost — 11.6 — 11.5 — 9.5
  • WSJ.com — 10.8 — 8.3 — 7.4
  • USAToday.com — 9.7 — 9.7 — 9.5
  • LA Times — 9.2 — 8.9 — 10.2
  • Daily News Online — 8.5 — 9.1 — 6.9
  • Boston.com — 4.9 — 5.2 — 4.0
  • New York Post — 4.8 — 6.5 — 3.8
  • SFGate/San Francisco Chronicle — 4.2 — 5..0 — 4.3
  • Chicago Tribune — 3.9 — 4.4 — 4.3
  • Politico — 3.2 — 3.4 — 2.6
  • NJ.com — 2.8 — 2.9 — 3.1
  • Houston Chronicle — 2.8 — 2.5 — 2.0
  • Chicago Sun-Times — 2.6 — 2.4 — 2.8
  • MercuryNews.com — 2.5 — 1.8 — 2.0
  • Newsday — 2.5 — 2.4 — 2.8
  • MiamiHerald.com — 2.5 — 1.8 — 1.9
  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution — 2.4 — 2.7 — 2.3
  • DallasNews.com — The Dallas Morning News — 2.3 — 1.8 — 2.1
  • Philly.com — 2.3 — 2.5 — 1.9
  • Orlando Sentinel — 2.1 — 2.0 — 1.7
  • Detroit Free Press — 2.0 — 1.6 — 1.8
  • The Washington Times — 2.0 — 1.8 — 1.9
  • tampabay.com — 1.9 — 1.7 — 1.9
  • Star Tribune — 1.9 — 1.6 — 1.8
  • DenverPost.com — 1.9 — NA — NA
  • The News & Observer — 1.8 — NA — NA
  • Azcentral.com — 1.8 — 1.9 — 1.8
  • Sun-Sentinel — 1.7 — NA — 1.5
  • KansasCity.com — 1.7 — 1.7 — 1.7
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]]> http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2009/09/19/an-ap-birthday/feed/ 0 Does the Web count? http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2009/09/17/does-the-web-count/ http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2009/09/17/does-the-web-count/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:24:22 +0000 scj http://blog.scad.edu/scj/?p=21 There still exists, despite furvent efforts to oppose it, a theory in some small parts of the world that journalism on the Web isn’t journalism. The propogists of this idea use guilt by association to say that because the Internet can be used for a myriad of less than professional things, it somehow dillutes journalism. Plus their dad did it with paper, and his father before him, and his before that.

This idea is false. Journalism is storytelling, not the transcription of events on paper. Good journalists should be able to tell a story with whatever medium is presented to them.

The Web, as should now be obvious to all, is the evolutionary next step in the way we communicate. Over the next 30 years, Gannett Publishing believes the younger generation will wipe out newspapers altogether. They further believe that mobile devices, like iPhones and Blackberries, will be where the younger generation gets their information.

SCAD’s news organizations, District, Connector, SCAD Radio and SCAD-Atlanta Radio have taken this idea to heart. District and Connector both publish exclusively on the Web, and are training their respective staff to produce content with audio, video, and the written word. SCAD has inadvertently created the journalism school of the future, by requiring their writing students to take computer art classes. Knowledge of Final Cut, Flash, Photoshop, and Illustrator will be among the basic skill set required of anyone entering the field of journalism.

All of the new members of the SCAD SCJ Chapter have received this type of training, as will all future members.

]]> http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2009/09/17/does-the-web-count/feed/ 0 New members inducted in Savannah and Atlanta http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2009/09/16/new-members-inducted-in-savannah-and-atlanta/ http://blog.scad.edu/scj/2009/09/16/new-members-inducted-in-savannah-and-atlanta/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:57:07 +0000 scj http://blog.scad.edu/scj/?p=19 This past May, 12 new members were inducted into the Society for Collegiate Journalists at SCAD and SCAD-Atlanta. In Savannah they are Rhys E. Finch, Tiffany N. Cullen, Caila D. Brown, Alan E. Vance, Deanne Revel, Joe S. Molinelli, Stephanie M. Bercht, Ben R. Wright, and Katelan A. Cunningham. In Atlanta they are Luiz Carlos Teixeira Coelho Filho, Naijia J. Huang, and Saria M. Canady.

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Fourteen new SCJ members were inducted in a ceremony held in Keys Hall on May 18, 2008. New inductees are James Biscardi, Chase Chauffe, Elizabeth Dixon, Myrriah Gossett, Mallory Hodgkin, Michael Jewell, Lindsay Johnston, Dan Morris, Victoria Phetmisy, Stephanie Saunders, Randall Smith, Tandy Versyp, Travis Walters and Evan Watkins. Above, Michael Jewell signs the membership scroll.

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