For one of the projects the JMC School is working on here my colleagues and I were asked to come up with three things we think it’s important for our students to know when they graduate. It took some pondering, but here’s what I came up with: 1. Our students need to be able, when presented with a new, novel

By Kelly Eschberger ‘07 (716) 375-2376 For Immediate Release: SBU WELCOMES NEW JOURNALISM PROFESSOR, SAM SMITH ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y., Sept. 9, 2004 — The Russell J. Jandoli School of Journalism and Mass Communication at St. Bonaventure University has added Dr. Samuel R. Smith, associate professor of journalism/mass communication, to its faculty. “Dr. Smith is a most welcome addition to the

In case you missed it, beast_o_bourbon has pulled together a fairly rugged ass-whipping for our friends at 1600 Pennsylvania. Check it: Letter to the Aphasians

I was born Southern, raised Southern, and have always thought of myself as Southern, even in recent years when I came to identify more and more with my home in Colorado. I lived in Iowa, as well, and pulled a year in Boston, but remained Southern. Now, some of you may have experienced something a little weird today around 3:30

They teach you in journalism school that “Dog bites man” isn’t news. “Man bites dog,” on the other hand, is definitely news. They never said anything about “Dog shoots man,” but I’m guessing it’s news. And this is hands down the coolest pup in the world aside from Ronan…..

NY Times Op-Ed guy David Brooks has a piece today called “Cult of Death,” in which he tries to tidy up the tragedy in Beslan, suicide bombers in Palestine and 9/11 by reducing it all to some sort of irrational pure evil. Dissertations will be written about the euphemisms the media used to describe these murderers. They were called “separatists”