These last few weeks have made me contemplate the last of my series of four blogs and my final blog for this site. It has been a pleasure to write these as I hope I helped, entertained and inspired you in some way. To the new class coming in, to the class that is leaving, …
I heard a lot about Syracuse University’s Block Party even before I participated in it; it is a quite popular event among students, which is represented in how hard tickets are to purchase. It is like a race among others to purchase the best location on the block party. On the morning the ticket purchase …
The Broadcasters Education Association annual conference was at the beginning of the month and a few students were fortunate to attend and present their research on current media and how it relates to society. During the same time at the convention center next door, the National Association of Broadcasters was holding its annual convention as …
If you get picked as the ‘Super IA’ for your master’s class at Newhouse, it’s a great feeling. I still remember less than a year ago, I was in my second week of summer bootcamp for Broadcast and Digital Journalism. We were in our live radio newscast, and I was under deadline of being the …
The recent advances in technology, which now enable people to easily capture and share details about events happening around them and also to discuss their different opinions on issues affecting them through social media, have made people begin to think that maybe there will come a time when journalists will be less needed in our …
Going from undergrad to a graduate career can be a little (well, more than a little) hectic. Especially coming from a school that is nothing like Syracuse University/Newhouse. I had only ever visited New York City, not upstate New York, and had no idea what to expect. I knew nothing and no one, so I …
Graduation seems so close yet so far, as most Newhouse master’s students like myself have a slew of final projects, productions, and tests to knock out before we can earn our degrees. For what it’s worth, most Newhouse professors do a great job preparing students for these stressful times. Earlier today in Professor Imraan Farukhi‘s …
I grew up in the exotic land of New Jersey, and one of the greatest benefits of deriving from the Garden State was the melting pot it was of various races, religions, orientations, and more. When describing myself, I identify as a Caucasian, Hispanic, straight, male person with disabilities; the paramount word in that description …
After successfully implementing a media literacy workshop at Cazenovia High School, I had a solid debriefing session with the students. I learned a lot, but my key takeaway from the experiment showed me that Doodle the News is probably more appropriate for elementary and middle school aged youth. Due to my diminishing time frame at …