…was made last night as it became apparent that for the first time in history an African American, Sen. Barack Obama, would be the presidential nominee for one of the nation’s major parties. Read Vanderbilt political scientist John Geer’s insights on the news in the Sacramento Bee, Miami Herald, Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Carpetbagger [...]
…than finding a tribe of people that may have never had contact with the rest of the world? Though taken with this story, which broke last week from Brazil, I was just as troubled that we were hearing it at all, concerned that this remaining bit of wildness would be corrupted by “civilized” contact. Or [...]
The coolest Vanderbilt event happening today isn’t on campus but in D.C. Lessons learned from Robert F. Kennedy’s run for the White House in 1968, and his overall career, are the topic of a forum at the Newseum co-hosted by Vanderbilt underway right now (go to C-SPAN to watch).
The forum, “To Seek a Newer World: [...]
Vanderbilt’s own crack student journalist Glenna DeRoy hs been named to the college journalism association UWIRE’s prestigious Top 100 Student Journalist List for 2008. While carrying a full courseload, Glenna put in over 40-hour work weeks making InsideVandy and The Hustler two of the most innovative student news outlets in the country. Her success is [...]
From Serious Popcorn, the blog of media critic Martha Bayles, comes a discussion of a recent forum for Congressional and federal agency staff hosted by Vanderbilt’s Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy in D.C. on the export of American films and the tight relationship between Hollywood and Washington that facilitates it. Bayles’ post [...]
Vanderbilt’s own InsideVandy has been recognized as one of the best student newspaper Web sites in the country. 10,000words.net - where journalism and technology meet! - praised our student site for its “massive amounts of content”: video, podcasts, slideshows and blogs, with a special shout out for the new students’ section. Way to go!
Another guest post, this one from David Salisbury, editor of Exploration, Vanderbilt’s groovy online research magazine.
Over spring break more than 100 college journalists from 40 different
universities came to campus for a workshop on new media put on by the Center
for Innovation in College Media workshop. It was a hands-on workshop and the
attendees produced 35 media [...]
Guest posting today is our own Emily Pearce, associate director of the Vanderbilt News Service, on her remarkable experience over the last several weeks:
Sometimes you cover a story that, well, quite frankly, just gets to you. That’s what happened when I met Amenah, an Iraqi child whose journey for life led her to the Monroe [...]
Vanderbilt Student Communications earned some very nice and well-deserved kudos from Duke’s Next Newsroom project. The article features an in-depth, interesting Q&A with VSC director Chris Carroll, and offers insights into how the very slick and wildly successful InsideVandy got its start, spiced up with some excellent metaphors.
“We were talking of creating this mothership [...]
My hometown paper is positively gushing about a unique event that took place on the Vanderbilt campus last week - the first meeting of the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers. Read The Inquirer’s coverage here, and listen to the keynote speaker Anita Allen (from U. Penn, hence the City of Brotherly Love’s interest) delivering her [...]
