My greatest regret is that I didn’t successfully record more of them. But here’s what I did get. Thanks for making this a great semester.
About the videos
May 6, 2009 by michaelberryhillMichael Berryhill, editor, teacher, lover of pistachio ice cream
May 6, 2009 by michaelberryhill
Andrew Taylor: how he came to write so much
May 6, 2009 by michaelberryhill
Matt Miller, new editor of the Daily Cougar
May 6, 2009 by michaelberryhill
Jasmine Harrison on interviewing for a newspaper job
May 6, 2009 by michaelberryhill
Kimberly Jones
May 6, 2009 by michaelberryhill
Matt Keever on his semester
May 5, 2009 by michaelberryhill
Shai Mohammed, Cougar Opinion Editor
May 5, 2009 by michaelberryhill
Final postings and grades
May 1, 2009 by michaelberryhillDear Writers,
There’s still time to add posts and improve your blogs and your grades, especially those of you who have been behind. I’ll look at everything you post all next week until Monday May 11 at 5.
What am I looking for? At least six postings with strong reporting elements from the first part of the semester. Two reviews. Two columns.
Some of you have written far more than that. Congratulations! That will help your grade.
One thing I urge you to do. Improve the looks of the blog. Make it look professional. Add a paragraph in the “about this blog” section, identifying yourself and the class and the semester. Get your name in the header. Then you can send the link to prospective employers.
I’m still working on how to post the videos from Thursday. When I get them up I’ll notify you.
A new library resource for magazines
April 30, 2009 by michaelberryhillCommunication librarian Christine Gola writes that UH students and faculty will soon have access to the entire archives of The New Yorker on line. The New Yorker is not on-line yet, but the data base in which it will appear is called Opinion Archives.
Opinion Archives is an invaluable source of information, containing searchable archives for several important magazines, including Commentary, Commonweal, Harpers Magazine, NACLA (a leftist newsletter on Latin America), The Nation, The National Review, The New Republic and The New York Review of Books.
These are major publications on both the right, the left and inbetween. The Harpers archive goes back before the Civil War, and makes for fascinating reading on historical subjects. The New York Review of Books runs some of the best essays on serious books in the country. To use them you have to enter your People Soft number and go through the library’s portal, but once you’re there, the archives are easy to use.
