Here’s a breaking news story I reported Tuesday night, thanks to an item from Romanesko:
Communication dean finalist for spot at Syracuse University (The Miami Hurricane)
This was the first local reporting of the story, which broke in Syracuse. It has more background and the first public comment from Grogg.
The University of Miami‘s Knight Center for International Media named its two chairs this morning:
Joe Treaster (left) formerly of The New York Times, and Rich Beckman formerly (right),of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Their appointment comes almost one year after the Knight Foundation announced a $10 million grant to the school.
Here is the UM press release, here is a letter from the NYT’s business editor and below is a video of the press conference:
We’re on our first deadline of the semester, so I’ll add more to this post after we finish. Stay tuned.
UPDATE, Jan. 17 @ 9:58 P.M.: Both of these guys look like great additions to the School of Comm. Their words at press conference were very encouraging.
Check out two of Beckman’s projects from when he was head of visual communications at UNC:
The Ancient Way (about elders in Galicia, Spain)
Chiloé Stories (about language of native people on Chiloe Island, Chile)
Incoming sports editor Matthew Bunch and I met today with Miami Herald sportswriter Michelle Kaufman, who teaches a 500-level sports reporting class in the spring. Matt and I took the class last spring and tossed around ideas with Michelle about how we could integrate the coursework with the newspaper.
Michelle was very receptive and had great ideas. Here are some of the plans we discussed:
-UM sports blogs, live blogging during the games
-A multimedia project (video package or audio slideshow)
-Dedicated page on TheMiamiHurricane.com for each sport
Please feel free to discuss these ideas or add any of your own by hitting the comment button below.
It’s been quite a busy week, and we only had one issue! Here’s a quick look at what’s been going on and what’s coming up…
Wednesday: Last deadline day of the semester
Thursday: Last issue of the semester comes out; Web meeting with adviser, professors and select staffers
Friday: Staff lunch with the Ibis yearbook; design and content meeting with visual journalism professor and Ibis yearbook adviser Randy Stano
Saturday: Day off? Nope. Karyn, Matt, Will and I will be helping out at a Florida Society of Newspaper Editors event happening at the School of Communication.
Sunday: The staff say farewell to outgoing editors Stacey Arnold and Bari Lieberman, introduction of incoming editors and a discussion of deas for next semester
Tuesday: Incoming Sports Editor Matthew Bunch and I meet with Michelle Kaufman, an adjunct professor and Miami Herald sports writer who teaches CNJ 523 Sports Reporting in the spring.