The name of Johann Amos Comenius rarely echoes through the halls of modern academe, but his ideas about how we should educate ourselves remain alive, and his influence continues. For instance, the American educational system of kindergarten, elementary, junior high, and high school levels is an idea that originated with Comenius. His influence runs far • Read More »
What has practically every story you’ve read or heard during the last couple of weeks about the college admissions scandal had in common? The journalists and commentators have consistently used the terms elite colleges or elite universities. They have done without any critical assessment of the terms themselves, and therein lies a problem — possibly The Problem. We • Read More »
Tags: big-brand university, college admission scandal, elite college, elite university
The nation seems to be in a state of perpetual war, and during times of crisis, individual freedoms are always in danger. Professor Dwight Teeter of the University of Tennessee discusses the state and strength of First Amendment freedoms today.
Tags: Dwight Teeter, First Amendment, video
Writing for the Mass Media, now in its ninth edition and in print since 1985, is now being offered by Pearson, the publisher, in a digital edition that downloads to all formats and devices. This book, which is used as a textbook for courses in about 200 colleges and universities each year, is one of • Read More »
Tags: journalism, Pearson, textbooks, writing, Writing for the Mass Media
University of Tennessee professor Dwight Teeter discusses the case of Luther Baldwin, a New Jersey man who was prosecuted under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. Baldwin became a symbol of Federalist intolerance during the 1800 presidential election.
This video is part of the Tennessee Journalism Series and was produced and edited by Jim Stovall.
Tags: Alien and Sedition Acts, First Amendment, James Madison, John Adams, Library of Congress, Luther Baldwin
At minimum, tags should include
• all of the proper names and places referred to in your story;
• major ideas and concepts of the subject of the story:
• important actions and processes referred to in the story.
Tags: posts, process of writing, tags, tags and actions, tags and ideas, tags and proper names and places, websites, Writing for the Mass Media, writing good tags
Jonathan Swift wanted his writing to be “understood by the meanest.” It’s the standard we want our journalism students to shoot for.
Tags: A Modest Proposal, biography of Jonathan Swift, book review, Gulliver's Travels, John Simon, Jonathan Swift, Leo Damrosch, New York Times, Swift on religion, Swift wanted his writing to be understood by the meanest
In this two-and-a-half minute video, Dr. Dwight Teeter explains some of the political maneuvering that occurred to get the an amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech into the hotly-debated Constitution in the late 1780s. The freedoms protected by the amendment — religion, speech, press, assembly and petition — were not foremost in the minds of the Founding Fathers. Discussion questions are included with this video.
Tags: Anti-Federalists, Dwight Teeter, First Amendment, Founding Fathers, James Madison
Some professors ban laptops, tablets and smart phones from their classrooms, seeing them as distractions for their students. Instead, they should welcome them as tools for engagement.
Tags: #jem200, conduct a dialogue, hashtag, journalism student tweeting, live Twitter stream, tweeting the lecture, Twitter, writing for an audience
The speed of the Internet and the World Wide Web in disseminating information has forced editors and journalists to rethink the way they present news and the structure of writing.
Tags: acceleration of writing, accuracy, bullet points of information, CNN, highlights, inverted pyramid, mobile devices, mobile journalism, news, news story structure, newswriting, speed of writing for the web, Twitter, World Wide Web, writing, Writing for the Mass Media
How do you make an interactive chart like this one and put it onto your web page? The video on this page will explain it all.
Tags: charts and graphs, creating interactive charts with Google spreadsheets, free software for charts, getting a chart from data, Google, graphics journalism, informational graphics, interactive, video, Vimeo
A news website gives scholastic journalists the opportunity to do something they’ve never done — practice “daily journalism.”
Tags: audience, news website, post something new every day, scholastic journalism
Getting prepared for the upcoming semester, I took a shot at codifying the procedures for creating an audio slideshow. If any journalism instructors out there want to use this, they’re welcome to it (credit JPROF.com). Seven steps to the audio slideshow JEM 200 and 230 students (and beyond) An audio slideshow is a journalistic form • Read More »
UPDATE: The college faculty just voted to approve, with minor changes, the proposed changes in the journalism curriculum and requirements. (Nov. 20, 2009, 10 a.m.) The faculty of the School of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennnesse has proposed a number of changes to our curriculum. These changes are based on the • Read More »
Beginning journalism students, in their first news writing classes, should be taught the basics of audio journalism and should put those basics into practice. The concept of audio journalism takes us beyond the medium of radio and requires that we think about sound itself as an increasingly available and important tool of the journalist (as • Read More »
The call has gone out from Innovation in College Media for journalism profs to come together on Sunday for a chat on journalism education. It begins with a blog post, and one of the suggested topics is “What’s going right at your school.” Here’s what’s going right at Tennessee: The Tennessee Journalist (TNJN.com) TNJN.com is • Read More »