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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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May 21, 2008
News Service Picks 'Best Student Journalists'
The purest form of journalism — “filled with energy and idealism” and “unpolluted by corporate culture or market trends” — is written and broadcast by students, says UWire, a news service for campus publications.
With that in mind, UWire has named the “100 best student journalists in the country” in an unranked list. Selected from 500 nominees, they represent 66 institutions, including small private colleges and large public universities. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has the most students — five — on the list.
“Taken collectively,” UWire says on its Web site, “the 100 tell us something about the state of media today, and show us the faces who will be telling us the news in years to come.”
Among the honorees is a former Chronicle intern, Stu Woo, a graduating senior at Brown University. —Sara Lipka
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Uh, S. Britchky … “objectively evaluate important events”? So, objectivity and importance are to be subjectively determined by … Hmm. Now who would that be?
Perhaps unfamiliarity with the objective arbiter of importance is why UWire neglected to use those criteria in their story. Then again, perhaps it was felt that mere accuracy will suffice.
— BertW May 22, 09:28 AM #
All working reporters answer what, where, when, who and how. Pulitzers are given to reporters who answer why.
— marcii May 22, 12:38 PM #