Student reporter Kara Meekins turned in a quick hit in a class exercise. Her story idea was pitched in 10 words: How did Morris Journalism become first in the Google search?
Now, can readers seek and find the search that yielded Morris Journalism Academy first? E-mail or comments accepted in answer to the question, or to just discuss the certificate that Morris is offering in its website prospectus. Or, just what is the concept of a freelance journalist these days?
Monday, May 21, 2007
McKasty Reports on Hempstead's Historic Sites
Student reporter Bonnie McKasty reports from Hempstead's historical sites for heritage travelers to consider. To view the video, click here.
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Frost Photo Essay on Flowers, Mom, and Vegas
In a post turned in as a final portfolio of work for the Hofstra Journalism 80 class, student Meredith Frost used well-framed macro photos of spring flowers on the university campus to create a photo tumblelog of the last few weeks of the semester. Give it a read.
Lisa Bain on Technorati and Twitter
Lisa Bain, who completed Hofstra's Journalism 80 class in May, reports on what it feels like to learn she is on the cutting edge.
"I have officially been pulled out of my comfy spot in the middle of the internet clutter and straight to the forefront of emerging multimedia tools. I am a pioneer," she writes in an article she posted on her portfolio for this class. Give it a read.
"I have officially been pulled out of my comfy spot in the middle of the internet clutter and straight to the forefront of emerging multimedia tools. I am a pioneer," she writes in an article she posted on her portfolio for this class. Give it a read.
--Mo Krochmal
Wrapping up the Semester
By Kayla Walker
Student Editor
Emerging new technologies are constantly revolutionizing how media function. Recently, the new phenomenon that has materialized from things like wikis and blogs is accessible hyper-local journalism.
Prof. Mo Krochmal’s Online Journalism 80 class at Hofstra University has worked all semester on improving our reporting, writing and multimedia skills. As our final project, we’ve produced an entire issue of “Nassau News,” the School of Communication’s online local news coverage website.
Our stories, which focus on the Hempstead community, investigate what it means to be a resident of Hempstead, contrasted with next-door Garden City, through text, images, video and sound.
Whether you’ve spent your whole life in Hempstead or if you’ve just spent the last year here as a student at Hofstra, you’ll find something in our work that will inform you.
From focusing on veterans of war searching for employment to booming small businesses, our stories look at everything in between.
Living in Hempstead is a completely different experience than living in Garden City. With stories that compare high school athletics, music education programs and crime statistics, our “Nassau News” coverage explores the difference.
Our reporting shows that although Hempstead isn’t what it used to be, as a shopping hotspot, it’s working to become a city as well as improving its infrastructure on Fulton Ave. and at Nassau Coliseum.
However, as we’ve discovered, Hempstead is not without its problems. The village has recently been working on pollution clean-up at multiple sites as well as erasing poverty through non-profit organizations and shelters for the homeless.
Another improvement might be the town-gown relationship between Hofstra and Hempstead, whether it’s the relationship between locals and students looking for housing or the school’s administration and local government officials.
One thing that was found to be an integral aspect of Hempstead was its distinct Latin flavor. We’ve worked to uncover the best eats at a local Salvadoran restaurant as well as talking to Latinos about their issues and concerns about living in Hempstead.
Overall, our reporting works to define what it means to beliving in one of the last urban settings on Long Island, the birthplace of suburbia.
To understand exactly what it means to be a resident of Hempstead, visit NassauNews.org. To contribute to these subjects, visit our wiki for this project.
Student's Portfolio Pages
Students' Tumblr Logs
Student Editor
Emerging new technologies are constantly revolutionizing how media function. Recently, the new phenomenon that has materialized from things like wikis and blogs is accessible hyper-local journalism.
Prof. Mo Krochmal’s Online Journalism 80 class at Hofstra University has worked all semester on improving our reporting, writing and multimedia skills. As our final project, we’ve produced an entire issue of “Nassau News,” the School of Communication’s online local news coverage website.
Our stories, which focus on the Hempstead community, investigate what it means to be a resident of Hempstead, contrasted with next-door Garden City, through text, images, video and sound.
Whether you’ve spent your whole life in Hempstead or if you’ve just spent the last year here as a student at Hofstra, you’ll find something in our work that will inform you.
From focusing on veterans of war searching for employment to booming small businesses, our stories look at everything in between.
Living in Hempstead is a completely different experience than living in Garden City. With stories that compare high school athletics, music education programs and crime statistics, our “Nassau News” coverage explores the difference.
Our reporting shows that although Hempstead isn’t what it used to be, as a shopping hotspot, it’s working to become a city as well as improving its infrastructure on Fulton Ave. and at Nassau Coliseum.
However, as we’ve discovered, Hempstead is not without its problems. The village has recently been working on pollution clean-up at multiple sites as well as erasing poverty through non-profit organizations and shelters for the homeless.
Another improvement might be the town-gown relationship between Hofstra and Hempstead, whether it’s the relationship between locals and students looking for housing or the school’s administration and local government officials.
One thing that was found to be an integral aspect of Hempstead was its distinct Latin flavor. We’ve worked to uncover the best eats at a local Salvadoran restaurant as well as talking to Latinos about their issues and concerns about living in Hempstead.
Overall, our reporting works to define what it means to beliving in one of the last urban settings on Long Island, the birthplace of suburbia.
To understand exactly what it means to be a resident of Hempstead, visit NassauNews.org. To contribute to these subjects, visit our wiki for this project.
Student's Portfolio Pages
- Meredith Frost
- Ryan McCord
- Kayla Walker
- Bonnie McCasty
- Garrett Frey
- Katelin Quest
- Thomas Palermo
- Natalia Guzman
- Christopher Vaccaro
- Audra Kincaid
- Michelle Sobhraj
- Remy Melina
- Karmin Jones
- Dreux Dougall
- Kara Meekins
- Lisa Bain
- Maggie Biunno
Students' Tumblr Logs
How a Journalist Might Use Myspace to Report
By Juliette Pariente-Cohen
Student Reporter
www.Myspace.com is a social networking website that has allowed individuals all over the world to have access to online interactive multimedia. Once one has signed on to this free website, he or she automatically is able to create a webpage. This webpage gives the author access to a network of friends, personal profiles, photos, music, blogs and unlimited creative opportunities. A reader can cruise through musician’s personal profiles and upload music and videos onto a page, add celebrities as a personal friend and even take advantage of networking with potential clientele.
The opportunities are unlimited on Myspace. Politicians are even now taking advantage of this new social scene by creating their own pages and allowing potential supporters to comment and start groups on their behalf. But, it does not just stop there. Myspace has come so far that it cannot only make you, but it can break you. Because it is so easy to find any individual who has an account on the website, it gives companies easy access to a potential employee’s personal life. The way one presents themself in this website can be the deal-breaker in future employment opportunities.
From a journalistic perspective, Myspace offers the same opportunity that it offers companies who are sifting through potential employees. All a journalist needs to know is a first and last name or an e-mail address of a person. Once the journalist has that information, and if the person they are looking for has a webpage, they will be able to proceed with some very in-depth research on an individual they may be tracking for a report.
People on Myspace tend to write daily blogs, have personal pictures up and have a group of personal friends listed on their webpage. If one needs to learn a little more about the person, there is always the opportunity to discover a little more by talking to that individual’s friends. The person’s closer group of friends can be listed as his/her’s “ Top 8.”
Also, journalists can not only conduct research on a specific person, but also conduct research on a whole generation of individuals. Myspace is currently the world’s fifth most popular English language website, the fifth most popular website in any language and the third most popular website in the
Currently, Myspace a reported 230,000 new registrations per day. It is growing fast, and at this rate it may become the most popular site on the web.
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