for 422 M/W students only...

if you have a laptop...and you use Skype...and you can bring your laptop to class tomorrow and next week, e-mail me. can be some EC in it for you.

for 421 students, rules for speech story!

Should be at least 4 in-person interviews and at least 3 of them quoted directly. You may do follow-up interviews on the phone or even over e-mail, but those should be made clear in the story and on the contact sheet.

Word count should be between 800-1,000 words.

All the normal rules on formatting, setting the scene, objectivity, no interviewing friends, etc. still apply.

Any questions, lemme know.

for 422 students, be prepared to discuss this next week

This is a link to the stories that helped the Wash Post win 6 Pulitzers in 2008. Make sure you read the two dated April 17 under the Va. Tech section that start "Pop, pop, pop" and "Students makes connections..." Pay attention to role of social media, etc. and be ready to talk about it along with your own examples.

Have a good weekend.

SPJ meeting rescheduled for next Tuesday

The OSU chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists will meet on Tuesday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. in Journalism Building rm 375. Leonardo Carrizo is coming in to discuss multimedia journalism.

There will be FREE pizza, info about officer elections and scholarships. There is NO COST to you and you can get a scholarship.

If you are a journalism major, you should come. If you are interested in journalism as a career or hobby, you should come. If you just want free pizza, stay away. Just kidding, come anyway!

I hope to see many of you there.

Big-time journalist on campus next Thursday

For those who are interested, could be some EC in it for you. He is speaking next Thursday the 25th. Details can be found here.

Proof that story ideas can come from anywhere

This story from the NYT shows how great story ideas can come from anywhere. Could you do something similar by riding on public transportation offered by OSU or the city?

While you cannot use first or second-person writing in your final/feature stories, there are many great lessons that can be pulled from this story. Note the number of sources, depth of reporting, organization, choice of direct quotes, etc.

Change in office hours on Monday, 2-15.

Office hours will be 2-5 tomorrow (Feb. 15) instead of the normal 12-2.