Zak’s campaign
Check out ABC News on Campus story about Zak Kinnaird on KVUE, your local Austin ABC affiliate. Excellent job Sara.
Printing press part II
Click to watch a Soundslides presentation about the printing press by Raquel Villarreal, a journalism student at UT.
Where you been girl
Here is some writing practice as of late:
1. ABC News on Campus blog about Tom’s shoes and Bill Clinton (together at last).
2. Web Examiner: Alltop.com. Notice how I hate on journalists as a journalist, and get hated on by journalists as a journalist. It’s a social watchdog-eat-social watchdog world.
In conclusion I am looking fwd [...]
The Texas Student Media Printing Press
Despite an overwhelming outcry from students, the Texas Student Media printing press of the University of Texas, which prints the Daily Texan and Texas Travesty plus over 30 other local Austin publications, will be sold in May. Consequentially, its press crew members will be laid off. Printing will be outsourced to the Austin American-Statesman.
The [...]
Return to ABC
Back in action with Concealed Gun Bill Sparks Debate. This was one of my favorite stories to do, by far. I met interesting people and the issue was actually relevant/controversial. I felt like a journalist–and now that feeling is gone…
Boohoo?
A must-read
One thing that extremely fascinates me about the Obama administration is its planned integration with the Internet. The article on TechCrunch today, “How Obama Will Use Web Technology” describes how he intends to inform the public through the medium–It resembles the way FDR used the radio.
By the way, it’s really cute when my mom [...]
Obama-nation
From abomination to an Obama nation, the streets quieted, flags flapped, and the eyes of our colleagues locked. It may seem like this would be the precise time to be speechless, but today, January 20, 2009, “Happy Obama Day,” tends to act as a phrase of prevalence.
At first I viewed it in multiple text messages. [...]
“iGirl”iDigusts.
Voted Tech Crunch’s “Descent into Dumb iPhone Apps:” iGirl.
See the demo here.
The economic scorn for porn
My favorite news story of the day, and perhaps of all time, begins with the headline: “Porn industry seeks $5 billion federal bailout.”
My favorite quote of the day (of course, it’s within this story), or perhaps of all time, is from my dear friend Larry Flynt, who was quoted in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution saying:
“People are [...]
How you feel about “feminism”
The presidential election became its own commentary about gender and race in the United States. Two self-proclaimed feminists ran for offices in both parties, and a White man did not get elected.
Up until the election, women and men alike hesitated to positively use the word feminism, either in reference to their selves or to society. [...]