Storyteller and source in the digital age

With tomorrow's journalism and social media forum at the MUB, I thought I'd share a blog post I wrote Friday over at journalism21: A few observations and conversations on storyteller and source in the digital age.
Here's an excerpt from my post:

"(David) Carr’s description captured a dilemma described in an email I received from a college professor only minutes before. The professor had been watching raw Youtube footage of injured victims of the Syrian shelling.
“How can I integrate any of this?” my professor friend wrote. “It’s messing with me on an existential level.”
It is a conundrum - and a compelling challenge - of this era: How best to harness the rich array of raw social media documentation to tell stories with deeper meaning?"
You can find the full post here.
Your thoughts?

Journalism and Social Media event tomorrow at #UNH

Four spots left as of Monday morning for tomorrow's forum about journalism and social media, hosted by Social Media Club New Hampshire and The New Hampshire, UNH's student-run news operation.

Brady Carlson of NHPR, Mark Fortier of NH Patch, and Chad Graff and Tom Gounley of The New Hampshire will talk about how social media is changing the way their organizations cover news. Jason Boucher of SMCNH will kick things off, and I'll give a broad look at how social media is changing journalism to set the stage.

All will be followed by a Q&A with the social media-savvy crowd. Grab a spot and come out to MUB Theater 1 at 7pm, or follow along wherever you are on Twitter at #smcnhj.

Apply for summer and fall internships by March 8

The deadline for applying for summer and fall journalism internships is Thursday, March 8 at noon. The application is a letter to Prof. Lisa Miller with your contact information, a list of journalism courses you've taken and grades you've received, and your first and second choices of internships. Include two clips of stories you've done.

Even if we have met and discussed your summer internship, please turn in an application letter and clips by the deadline. If you have questions, e-mail Lisa, lc.miller@unh.edu.

Journalism Professor Tom Haines to give reading

Join us Thursday, Feb. 9 for our next Writers Series event featuring Tom Haines, UNH assistant professor of journalism and award-winning travel writer, at 5 p.m. in MUB Theatre I.  

Tom Haines joined the Department of English at UNH as an assistant professor in 2011. During two decades as a journalist, he has reported in more than 40 countries and on five continents, on topics ranging from coal to cricket, art to revolution. As a staff writer at The Boston Globe, he was three times named Travel Journalist of the Year in North America, and his stories were anthologized in The Best American Travel Writing, The Prentice Hall Reader, and elsewhere. The Globe three times submitted his work for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2009, he made a leap to the other end of the journalism spectrum, leaving the Globe to help edit and report for The Big Bend Sentinel, a 2,000-circulation community weekly in Far West Texas. There, he also led the design and operation of bigbendnow.com, a news website. Haines has been a staff writer at The Seattle Times and the Idaho Falls Post-Register, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, TheAtlantic.com, and elsewhere. At UNH, he teaches newswriting and digital storytelling, and he continues to report stories about people and place. He lives in the seacoast of New Hampshire with his wife, Julie, a classical singer, and their two children.

Multi-Media Journalism Internship Program

GateHouse Media New England/WickedLocal is seeking students interested in a multimedia internship. WickedLocal.com is a "portal" site representing featured content from its 158 individual hyper local community websites. Interns work with a supervisor and gather news, conduct interviews, write articles and/or take photographs and videos for individual sites.  Internships are available in the summer, fall, winter and spring. Interns must be within commuting distance of the office they work in; offices are located throughout eastern Massachusetts. If you are interested in applying, contact Deborah DeLarda, human resources coordinator, GateHouse Media New England, ddelarda@wickedlocal.com.

Journalism scholarships available for UNH students from Connecticut

The Connecticut Professional Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists is offering grants of between $500 and $2,500 through its Bob Eddy Scholarship Program. Scholarships are available to any students planning journalism careers who are Connecticut residents and are enrolled at a four-year college out of state, or to students entering their junior or senior year next fall at a four-year Connecticut college.

The application deadline is April 7. Application forms are available at www.ctspj.org.

New paid editing internship in Maine

The intern would work for the Forecaster newspapers, out of the Falmouth, Maine newspaper office, with a great editor named Mo Mehlsak. The internship would run for 25 hours a week and would include copy editing, story editing and layout. Pay is minmum wage. Please contact Lisa Miller if you’re interested, lc.miller@unh.edu

Journalism scholarship for Muslim American students

The Islamic Society of North America is offering a $4,000 scholarship for Muslim American students majoring in journalism or political science. The deadline for applying for this school year is Jan. 31. Go to scholarship@isna.net for more information.

Internship opening for the summer in Maine

THE ELLSWORTH AMERICAN’S 2012 INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

    The Ellsworth American, an award-winning 12,000-circulation weekly newspaper in Downeast

 Maine, is looking for two paid full-time summer interns to write feature stories and take photos for its arts section and special sections, particularly a 50-page monthly entertainment guide and feature magazine called “Out & About.”

The internship runs from mid-May until Labor Day, with flexibility for individual schedules. This is a busy internship, requiring high energy, solid feature reporting and writing skills. Photography skills are a plus. The interns work 40 hours a week on a flexible schedule, meaning that they work the occasional Saturday or Sunday and take compensatory time later. An intern must have their own car and will be required to travel to assignments outside the office on a regular basis. Generating story ideas is encouraged, though not required. A sense of adventure and love of the outdoors are key to the job.

Ellsworth American interns have been new college graduates or undergraduates. The graduates

generally move directly into employment in the journalism field.

The newspaper’s offices and printing plant are in downtown Ellsworth, population 6,000, the county seat of Hancock County. Bar Harbor and Blue Hill are 20 minutes away, and Bangor is a half-hour away. Hancock County is an extremely popular tourist destination, and tourism accounts for most summer jobs. Year-round employment includes construction trades, fishing and farming. The county also has an unusually active arts community whose hectic summertime schedule includes gallery shows, concerts and theatrical performances.

The final deadline for application is Jan. 31. To apply, send resume and clips to Letitia Baldwin, The Ellsworth American,

30 Water St., Ellsworth, Maine 04605. Telephone: 207.667.2576, Ext: 301. Fax: 207.667.7656.

E-mail: lbaldwin@ellsworthamerican.com. Web site:wwwfenceviewer.com.

Hyperlocal journalism academy

Interested in hyperlocal journalism? Check out NYU's Hyperlocal Newsroom Summer Academy at
http://bit.ly/bCLE3h