OFFER: New discussion group for recent alumni and current students
A note from Brandon Keim, M.A. 2006 and M.S. 2005, brandon[at]earthlab.net
Hello out there,
Last week there was some emailing among 2005 alumni about Bob Woodward’s recent misconduct.? Afterwards it seemed we needed a place to talk shop without adding to
everyone’s unsolicited email flood, so I set up a list for us. Everyone, of course, is invited. To join, go to http://groups.google.com/group/CSofJand sign up. Then feel free to post whatever interests you — questions, observations, good journalism, dilemmas — and hopefully some wisdom will come out of this.
Dean Sree asked me how this is different from TheTenMonthBeat… TheTenMonthBeat is more an event & logistics source — it’s not a place where someone would go and say, “Did you hear about what Bob Woodward did?? What do you think?” or “I was reading this article and trying to figure out how they sourced this part — little help?” or
“I’ve got this source who wants to be identified as such and such — what should I do?” and then have some community discussion about it. Hopefully the seed will sprout into a network whose dialogue helps us be better journalists.
I think the yahoogroup is great. AND the Ten Month Beat, which is sort of sluggish at the moment does break out into journalism discussions from time to time.
(Though I wonder if we need to talk about the blog as a team; I looked at the Class of ’05’s blog and was a little embarrassed.)
Comment by ChrisL — November 21, 2005 @ 9:39 pm