Eat cake and celebrate journalism students' accomplishments

Come honor graduating seniors with cake and conversation on Wednesday, April 25 at 5:30 p.m. in Hamilton Smith 42.

A panel of graduating seniors will talk about where they're headed - from newsrooms to social media marketing jobs - and share lessons learned through the internship and job-hunting process. Undergraduate majors, this is a great chance to get tips, advice and information on the road ahead.

Come share in fun talk and celebrate the success of the seniors!

Andy Carvin via Twitter

In editing the other day, we talked about Andy Carvin, social media strategist and Twitter news pioneer for NPR. 

Today Carvin spoke to a journalism class at American University, and Sarah Parnass live-tweeted his talk in a very thorough way.

I put Sarah's tweets into a #Storify: a cumulative 140-character narrative of what Carvin had to say about getting started on Twitter, the Arab Spring, and issues facing journalists in the digital world.

Students should read it here.

Friends, Followers and Retweets: Meg Heckman, #UNH journalism alum, on journalists and social media

Meg Heckman, web editor for the Concord Monitor and #UNH class of 2001, has a great essay posted today @digethics that explores the role of journalists, social media and neutrality. You can check it out here.

Volunteers needed for NPR at UNH

Journalism majors and other interested students: Get an up-close look at a live-audience production of NPR's Science Friday, an interview/issues show that will be broadcasting from the UNH campus on May 1. New Hampshire Public Radio host Brady Carlson will join Science Friday host Ira Flatow for the segment. NHPR is looking for four or five volunteers to serve as ushers, handing out programs and helping to seat people.

But come early and you could also get a behind-the-scenes look at sound check, set-up and more - and perhaps a chance to meet producers and others from NHPR: A window into top-level national radio journalism.

Volunteers are needed from 5pm to 6pm May 1 in the MUB. You are welcome to stay for the show, too.
Interested in volunteering, contact Tom Haines at tom.haines@unh.edu or @twhaines.

A digital journalism master class at Ham Smith this week

Thanks, Twitter. That's the name of a segment I sometimes use in reporting and editing classes - a way to bring in some cool case study or interesting journalistic oddity that comes across Twitter in the hours before class.

Henry Lopez talked Tuesday with students in English 622.

This week that took a real-life twist, as Henry Lopez, a digital media consultant and former web editor and reporter for The Santa Fe New Mexican burst from the Twitterverse to stand before 19 #UNH journalism students in English 622/Advanced Newswriting.
Read how this came to be, and what Lopez had to say about reporting, digital tools, online advertising, and more, at a post on my tumblr: journalism21.tumblr.com.
Thanks, Twitter. And Henry!