OU Hosts Journalism Program for Foreign Educators

by Alex Valverde

peruvianprncss62@hotmail.com

Trent Stephens

tpscool77@yahoo.com

Foreign journalism educators will have a unique opportunity to learn about American journalism at Ohio University this summer.

Arman Tarjimanyan has many years of experience as a foreign correspondent in countries including Armenia and Russia. This summer he is working with the Ohio University U.S. Institute for Journalism and Media to teach 18 foreign educators about American journalism. These educators teach journalism in their respective countries.

Tarjimanyan decided to work with this program because he wants to help bring influences from American journalism to these different countries. He said, “It’s mainly about sharing American standards of journalism and teaching more American standards of media reporting and media research to foreign educators.”

Tarjimanyan’s role will cover the more technical aspects of the program. However, he wants to use his experience as a foreign correspondent to help them better understand American media and culture. He’s very interested in international media and the different portrayals of it in countries around the world.

He thinks that OU’s program will be very useful, but not only for the participants. Tarjimanyan said, “…American professors can learn a lot from the participants by looking on some problems from a different angle.”

This program will begin at Ohio University on June 30 run until August 12. For more information on this program, click here.

Social Networking Revolutionizes Journalism

by Jessica Luczywo, jessicaluczywo@gmail.com

Carley Berman, ceebsterrr12@aim.com

Kristin Salaky, rent_fan2@yahoo.com

Kyle Howard, kylehoward7@yahoo.com

Facebook and Twitter each boast more than a million members, making them an integral part of society.

This week 20 students attended the seminar “Social Networking for News” taught by Dr. Hans Meyer as part of this year's Scripps High School Journalism Workshop.

“I personally use a lot of social networking sites and see a lot of media outlets using them, and would like to know how to use them in the future,” Workshop participant Amanda Rossetti said.

Meyer said he wanted to teach the class tips for using social networking for journalism. Social networking is best used to further promotion, connection and coverage, according to Meyer.

Promotion is furthered because the use of social networking allows the user to end up with friends and devoted supporters, rather than just readers.

Students in the class said they use social networking internally in their school paper for communication, as a Facebook group to send friends current news and to conduct interviews.

The more connected people feel to their source, the more they care about the news, according to Meyer. When people are constantly updated with news through social networking sites, the source seems more reliable.

Journalists can infer information through social networking sites in order to develop stories, find a lead to a story and diversify their coverage.

Social networking allows the community to control the news and journalists to customize their coverage according to what people want to know.

Welcome to the Scripps High School Journalism Workshop

by Mary T. Rogus
rogus@ohio.edu

This is the 69th year for the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism's High School Journalism Workshop. Over the years hundreds of high school students from across Ohio and surrounding states have come to Ohio University for a few days of intense training and hands-on work in journalism.

This summer we welcome 39 new high school journalists to OU for two and a half days of ethics, legal, skills and new media sessions, as well as hands-on experience in our converged newsroom. This year's student journalists come from high schools in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, New York and Kentucky. Their student work will be posted here on this blog, so stay tuned for stories about the workshop, as well as other stories on campus events.