During the last full day of the MIPA workshop in Dean Hume’s Newspaper Editors class, recently moved to a room on the second floor of the Natural Resources building in order to make use of room 218’s computers, Hume covered a number of topics that the students picked. The students in the class were planning after lunch to give constructive criticism to stories written by … [Read more...] about Newspaper Editors class is choosing their lessons
Skills learned at MIPA apply to many careers
On the first day of the MIPA journalism workshop, hundreds of MIPA student journalists from across the state, the country and even one student from another country, prepared to experience this year’s theme: Learn it. Live it. Love it. Many of them came here for ideas to transfer to their high school publications, others simply to spend time with friends. Still, many more came … [Read more...] about Skills learned at MIPA apply to many careers
Newspaper Editors class provides a hands-on approach
Just coming back from lunch, Dean Hume’s Newspaper Editors class engaged in a number of hands-on activities designed to get the students to apply various editing skills. The activities included pitching ideas to report on from around campus and making comments as a class on several stories published in student publications. The student journalists are encouraged to … [Read more...] about Newspaper Editors class provides a hands-on approach
Editors must give readers what they want and need, Hume said
Instructor Dean Hume gave a lesson to his Newspaper Editors class Monday, July 29 in order to teach his students the importance of balancing what a newspaper’s targeted readership wants to read and what they need to read, saying that there should be a balance of both in newspaper. The class, located in the Communication Arts and Sciences Building, is targeted towards those … [Read more...] about Editors must give readers what they want and need, Hume said