Search

The article reports on the merging of Ball State University's Department of Telecommunications and WTHI-TV using the Broadcaster's-In-Residence Program of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication funded by the Knight Foundation in Indiana. It allows the students to work in a small market news station . The students are allowed to work in a real world news environment for five visits and professionals from WTHI-TV can interact with students in an academic environment.

The article presents a course syllabus on the combination of research and teaching for undergraduate and graduate students offered by the Department of Mass Communications in Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Illinois. The course offers an advanced theory and writing techniques in radio and television including, writing commercials, promotions, documentaries and script writing. Major course objectives, activities, grading system and schedule of events are also presented.

The article discusses the significance of guest speakers in broadcast news on journalism education in the U.S. It is said that the invitation of professionals to speak in the class may not always be the best way to encourage interaction between professionals and students. However, through some planning and managing in advance, an instructor may be able to convert archetypes. These include the Angry Burnout, the meteor and the Insider into more effective classroom guests.

Discusses the increasing popularity of broadcast journalism courses in the United States. Reason for the interest in broadcasting; Qualities needed for a sports anchor; How broadcast journalism curricula are serving students; Career aspirations of students.

The article reports on the integration of students in the Ohio University in Zanesville, Ohio with interest in radio journalism into radio news operations aired on the university's WOUB Network. The network has a strong commitment to local news with transmitters scattered across the area. A news bureau was designed to assign students to cover news events. The network benefits from an expanding news gathering team and allows the students to participate in network news activities.

The article discusses the Internet celebrity Eva Gutowski. Topics include the start of her channel MyLifeAsEva on the video-sharing website YouTube during her freshman year as a broadcast journalism major at California State University, her role in the lightly scripted YouTube series "How to Survive High School," and her financial support for her younger sister's artistic extracurricular activities.

The article presents several facts about actress Lily Collins as of February 2016, including her study of broadcast journalism course at the University of Southern California, her mother as her best friend, and her favorite subject in high school was history.

The article discusses the associate degree in Media Communications with an emphasis on Television Production from Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. Included in the curriculum are two television production courses, a directed study and an internship at the local television station in Lawrence, Kansas. The role played by Bill Curtis, former director of the video production unit at the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs in Utah, in the degree's formation at the college is explored. The Haskell university students' web site at www.myspace.com/haskell_news is noted for its students' anchoring of the web cast.

The article describes a blueprint for making the transition from print-only to multimedia storytelling. Cedar Falls High School in Iowa took an unexpected fast track onto the multimedia highway by ending its video production course to offer a course on broadcast journalism. The new course would run in conjunction with the already existing newspaper classes that produce weekly, four-page tabloid and the yearbook program with its 200-page, annual book. The school hopes that both students from the first-year newspaper and the first-year broadcast classes enrolled in the same second-year course that will be called advanced journalism.

The article offers information on the use of the YouTube live website and Google Slides for student broadcast journalism.

Information about various topics discussed at the conference held by television networking organization Royal Television Society (RTS) in London, England in 2014 is presented. Tackled is the topic on Scottish referendum as well as the television festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. Mentioned is the broadcast journalism courses at the City University London.

The article informs that the British Royal Television Society has opened 20 bursaries, each worth 3000 pounds, to support British students studying courses accredited by the Creative Skillset, a creative industry body promoting skills and training, or the Broadcast Journalism Training Council.

A calendar of events for the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Board of Directors in the U.S. from August 2003 to April 2004 is presented. The mailing of board's ballots to the same set members from the BEA office will be on August 18, 2003. The deadline for BEA Secretary-Treasury to receive completed nomination ballots will be on September 15, 2003. The deadline to receive election ballots will be on October 20, 2003.

Presents information on the technique used by Michael Rosenblum to train reporters in the video journalism business. Video equipment used by Rosenblum; Benefits of the technique used and promoted by Rosenblum; His contributions to several broadcasting networks.

Deals with project-centered learning. Creation of opportunity for teams of students to become active learners; Mission of Turner Learning's high school program called CNN Student Bureau; Creation of standard by which future reporters and production staff create, view, and report news; Integration of the program into journalism, English, history, or science departments.

Provides guidelines on giving students the ability to decide for themselves where and how they will begin in making student-produced news shows. Includes familiarizing with a basic camcorder; Watching news broadcasts; Knowing one's students.

The article elaborates on political commentator Armstrong Williams' efforts to expand his influence in the television market in the U.S. Topics covered include the creation of a training program at Coastal Carolina University to train students on the various aspects of broadcast journalism, and his role as moderator of political and social issues-based town hall meetings to be aired on Howard Stirk Holdings' stations WJLA and NewsChannel 8 cable network.

The article offers information on the online course "Introduction to Broadcast Technology," launched by International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers (IABM) to educate students about various aspects of the broadcast and media production and distribution chain.

Reports on the cable public affairs network C-SPAN's launching of a national community education project called C-SPAN School Bus. Travel to high schools and colleges in more than 80 communities; Demonstration of `Electronic Town Hall' concept of teaching about and debating public affairs in a television format.