April 29th, 2013
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Zoom LJ Digital: Come join the School of Humanities of UC Irvine in the newest installment in their Author Series. They have the great pleasure and honor of hearing Barry Siegel speak about his latest book, Manifest Injustice. Not only is this fine writer a former Pulitzer Prize winner but he is also the literary journalism department head. Please don’t miss the opportunity to hear a great writer and reporter explain his methods of the craft. Should be an informative and helpful event to any aspiring journalist. 

LJ Digital: Come join the School of Humanities of UC Irvine in the newest installment in their Author Series. They have the great pleasure and honor of hearing Barry Siegel speak about his latest book, Manifest Injustice. Not only is this fine writer a former Pulitzer Prize winner but he is also the literary journalism department head. Please don’t miss the opportunity to hear a great writer and reporter explain his methods of the craft. Should be an informative and helpful event to any aspiring journalist. 

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April 16th, 2013
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Guardian Witness: The Guardian’s experiment with citizen journalism is exactly what student media needs

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This morning, the Guardian released Guardian Witness. Described by The Guardian: ‘Share your view of the world - Your chance to have videos, photos and stories featured on the Guardian’, the website and corresponding app allows anyone to submit photos, videos, and text to the Guardian.

The editorial team at The Guardian will be suggesting ‘assignments’ (current ones include Views of tall buildings, The cuts get personal, and Syria refugees: your stories) that users of the app are able to contribute their own content to.

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The Guardian have made it as easy to submit content to their assignments, as it is to tweet a photo from an event, or share a video onto YouTube.

Student media, often plagued by the inability to gather together good content and stories, should definitely take note. University campuses are now filled with thousands of students, most of whom have smartphones. When looking for the next big story, or photos and video from an event, it’s easy to see how an app like this, that connects the newsroom to the students, could be really useful. Not only would the newsroom have an abundance of content and material, but students would be able to get their photos and videos featured as the story develops, their own 30 seconds of fame.

Embracing students in this way is great for student media. It helps their image, encourages students to engage with stories, share stories with their friends (getting more clicks, reads, likes, and so on), and maybe students will start getting more involved in student media.

You can watch a video of the app in action here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/video/2013/apr/16/guardian-witness-promo-video

What do you think? Should people be giving their content away to The Guardian for free? Or are we doing it anyway on Twitter and other social networks, and is it a clever move by The Guardian to bring that content together?

LJ Digital: This is fascinating. Student journalists, check this out!

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April 12th, 2013
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Interview with Survivors of "Bounty" Shipwreck

Matthew Shaer, author of the Atavist story, The Sinking of the Bounty, recently wrote an article interviewing the survivors of the shipwreck. This is a great opportunity to get a behind the scenes look on the captivating story. 

The Sinking of the Bounty is available on the Atavist website for $2.99. 

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April 10th, 2013
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Join the Literary Journalism Program and the Department of History at The University of California, Irvine for a conversation between writers Pico Iyer and Amy Wilentz. Light refreshments; book sale and signing to follow. Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Patricia Pierson at piersonp@uci.edu. Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Asian Studies, the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the Humanities Collective, the International Studies Program, and the World History MRU, with support from the Office of the Chancellor. About Pico Iyer: An essayist, columnist, and novelist, Pico Iyer was born in Oxford, England in 1957, to parents from India, and educated at Eton, Oxford, and Harvard. Since 1986 he has been writing books and since 1992 he has been based in rural Japan, while spending part of each year in a Benedictine hermitage in California. www.picoiyerjourneys.com <http://www.picoiyerjourneys.com> About Amy Wilentz: Amy Wilentz (UC Irvine English and Literary Journalism) is the author of The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier (1989), Martyrs’ Crossing (2000), and I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger (2006). She edited and translated The Parish of the Poor (Orbis Books 1990), a collection of the writings of Haitian President and political leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide. She contributed the leading essay to the book Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary (Harper, 2008). Wilentz is the winner of the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN Martha Albrand Non-Fiction Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award, and also a 1990 nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles, Time magazine, The New Republic, Mother Jones, Harper’s, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, Reconstruction, Travel & Leisure, The San Francisco Chronicle, More, The Village Voice, The London Review of Books and many other publications. She is the former Jerusalem correspondent of The New Yorker and a long-time contributing editor at The Nation.

Join the Literary Journalism Program and the Department of History at The University of California, Irvine for a conversation between writers Pico Iyer and Amy Wilentz. Light refreshments; book sale and signing to follow. Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Patricia Pierson at piersonp@uci.edu.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Asian Studies, the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the Humanities Collective, the International Studies Program, and the World History MRU, with support from the Office of the Chancellor.

About Pico Iyer:

An essayist, columnist, and novelist, Pico Iyer was born in Oxford, England in 1957, to parents from India, and educated at Eton, Oxford, and Harvard. Since 1986 he has been writing books and since 1992 he has been based in rural Japan, while spending part of each year in a Benedictine hermitage in California. www.picoiyerjourneys.com <http://www.picoiyerjourneys.com>

About Amy Wilentz:

Amy Wilentz (UC Irvine English and Literary Journalism) is the author of The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier (1989), Martyrs’ Crossing (2000), and I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger (2006). She edited and translated The Parish of the Poor (Orbis Books 1990), a collection of the writings of Haitian President and political leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide. She contributed the leading essay to the book Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary (Harper, 2008). Wilentz is the winner of the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN Martha Albrand Non-Fiction Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award, and also a 1990 nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles, Time magazine, The New Republic, Mother Jones, Harper’s, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, Reconstruction, Travel & Leisure, The San Francisco Chronicle, More, The Village Voice, The London Review of Books and many other publications. She is the former Jerusalem correspondent of The New Yorker and a long-time contributing editor at The Nation.

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December 6th, 2012
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Check out this new blog!

Follow this new blog brought to you by Amy DePaul’s advanced reporting class at UC Irvine! The literary journalism department is constantly churning out excellent work from the next generation of writers and journalists. We all know reporting is Hell but that’s half the fun. All readers and submissions are welcome! 

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September 11th, 2012
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Internship Opportunity!

Foodbeast has some internship and even editorial positions available! 

Contributing Writer (Remote)

Contributing Writer will be spending most of their time researching story leads, field reporting and furthering the internal editorial calendar. The ideal candidate will have a unique writing style and passion for food, ready to have their content read by tens of thousands of people every day. The position is unpaid:

  • A strong interest in food and food blogging is a must.
  • Should be comfortable with Photoshop or similar photo editing tool.
  • Must be familiar with WordPress or similar blogging platform.
  • Must be fluent in Social Media technologies (eg. Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Reddit)
  • Must be able to function in a fast-paced start-up environment for one of the web’s quickest growing food news properties.Must maintain exceptional writing and editing skills

To apply, send resume and cover letter to: opportunities@foodbeast.com

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September 8th, 2012
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The FJP: 7 Smart Thoughts About Fact-Checking

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In the aftermath of the conventions, we know politicians aren’t exactly clear or honest in their speech, and the press handling of it opened up an interesting can of worms.

As BuzzFeed reported, Romney’s aides (specifically pollster Neil Newhouse) laid down the law:

Fact checkers come…

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September 7th, 2012
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Narratively has launched. Take a look.

LJ Digital: =D 

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September 5th, 2012
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Longform Podcast: Paul Ford

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Episode 5: Aaron Lammer interviews writer and programmer Paul Ford.

Listen | iTunes | Ford’s Archive on Longform

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September 4th, 2012
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Zoom How to Succeed in Journalism When You Can&#8217;t Afford an Internship  Answer: Hope for an inheritance. Who gets to be a journalist? I do, now, and the fact stuns me. For five years, I worked at a series of marketing companies and non-profits: jobs I wasn’t crazy about, but took because they allowed me to withstand the monthly double-penetration of Toronto rent plus student loan payments. I was trying, and largely failing, to write at night, on weekends, and on my two weeks of holidays per year. I’d bought into that old saw about struggling for one’s craft, as well as the updated version, Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours rule, but my day jobs paid so little that, more often than not, my free hours had to go to remunerative work—more of the same. This routine produced such a cloud of emotional exhaust that a whole season could pass before I noticed that I hadn’t written a word. Before I went freelance, I was ready to give up. LJ Digital: This is an excellent essay by Alexandra Kimball. If you&#8217;re a young journalist like me and need some perspective or just something to take your mind off of your current debt, give this a read. It&#8217;ll be worth it.  (photo courtesy of randomhouse.com) 

How to Succeed in Journalism When You Can’t Afford an Internship 

Answer: Hope for an inheritance.

Who gets to be a journalist? I do, now, and the fact stuns me. For five years, I worked at a series of marketing companies and non-profits: jobs I wasn’t crazy about, but took because they allowed me to withstand the monthly double-penetration of Toronto rent plus student loan payments. I was trying, and largely failing, to write at night, on weekends, and on my two weeks of holidays per year. I’d bought into that old saw about struggling for one’s craft, as well as the updated version, Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours rule, but my day jobs paid so little that, more often than not, my free hours had to go to remunerative work—more of the same. This routine produced such a cloud of emotional exhaust that a whole season could pass before I noticed that I hadn’t written a word. Before I went freelance, I was ready to give up.

LJ Digital: This is an excellent essay by Alexandra Kimball. If you’re a young journalist like me and need some perspective or just something to take your mind off of your current debt, give this a read. It’ll be worth it. 

(photo courtesy of randomhouse.com) 

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September 4th, 2012
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Zoom atavist: Joe Sacco and the rise of “longform comics reportage.” (Just a few weeks until our own foray into this exciting new genre!)

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Joe Sacco and the rise of “longform comics reportage.” (Just a few weeks until our own foray into this exciting new genre!)

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August 22nd, 2012
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onaissues: How Can Gaming Platforms Be Used For Participatory News? Conference Will Explore Possibilities - 10,000 Words We’re very excited to be partnering with the Center for Investigative Reporting on TechRaking II, which will be in San Francisco, September 19. We’ll spend the morning exploring best practices in gaming the news and build together in a design sprint throughout the afternoon. For more information, check out CIR.org. For registration information, please contact Kristin Crawford at kcrawford@cironline.org.

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How Can Gaming Platforms Be Used For Participatory News? Conference Will Explore Possibilities - 10,000 Words

We’re very excited to be partnering with the Center for Investigative Reporting on TechRaking II, which will be in San Francisco, September 19. We’ll spend the morning exploring best practices in gaming the news and build together in a design sprint throughout the afternoon. For more information, check out CIR.org. For registration information, please contact Kristin Crawford at kcrawford@cironline.org.

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August 21st, 2012
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10 Ways to Get Traumatized Sources to Share Their Stories

LJ Digital: Writing a literary journalism piece is difficult enough as it is but having to center your story around a traumatized subject is when things can get sticky. Tears are involved, information is often forgotten due to the subject forcing certain memories out of his/her mind, and the ethics of the journalist are on the line. Poynter is here to help with 10 ways to get traumatized sources to share their stories. Check out the link to get yourself better prepared for your future stories. 

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August 16th, 2012
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Ten tips for recording audio interviews by phone | Advancing the Story

onaissues:

Advancing the Story has helpful advice about conducting phone interviews. Here are two things that are good to keep in mind:

  • Control your interview. It’s harder to keep someone on track when you’re talking by phone than in person since you can’t use body language or facial expressions to send signals. If he or she starts to ramble, you might have to say something like, “That’s good information, but what we’d really like to know is…” 
  •  Don’t talk over the interview. Unless you have to interrupt to redirect the interview, keep your mouth shut. You don’t want to lose a great sound bite because you’re saying, “Really? that’s interesting.”

Head over to Advancing the Story for more tips. 

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August 14th, 2012
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Why nonfiction writers should take a 'Vow of Chastity'

A point I made on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” — the day she pilloried James Frey for his exaggerations in “A Million Little Pieces”: When you learn that a story or anecdote in a literary work is not true, you begin to doubt everything in that work. And when you learn that a work has been debunked as untrue or unreliable, you begin to doubt the truthfulness of every author and the reliability of every text — an effect that is caustic to any culture.

How far do you think the line of nonfiction is allowed to go?

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