Seems we’re behind on interesting links lately. Let’s just smear a bunch of them all over the place now.
First, a great handful of journalism items:
AP’s ‘robot journalists’ are writing their own stories now
Why Journalism Professors Should Teach Accuracy Checklists
Meet the first two African American women in White House press corps
NBC’s Brian Williams recants Iraq story after soldiers protest
Controversy grows over Brian Williams’ Iraq apology
Brian Williams has to go. Hey, most of us without head trauma would probably remember the simple act of being in a helicopter knocked out of the sky.
Also, the last two ‘graphs in the Stars and Stripes story linked above:
O’Keeffe said the incident has bothered him since he and others first saw the original report after returning to Kuwait.
“Over the years it faded,” he said, “and then to see it last week it was — I can’t believe he is still telling this false narrative.”
That word “still.” Also there were reportedly years of warnings, or pleadings.
One more journalism tidbit: Wait, You Want Me to Fit a Drone into My Journalism Toolkit!?
Yes. And bring me one as well. You can even have the Millennium Falcon one for yourself:
Here’s some nice news about our program: Journalism program earns honors in national ranking:
Samford University’s Department of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) has earned impressive honors in a new ranking of national journalism education programs. Samford debuted at number 43 out of the 187 programs ranked by the College Factual website.
The site, which provides rankings and other customized information to help students find the college most likely to lead to their future success, also revealed that Samford’s journalism program is:
• A top-25 “major value” in journalism education nationally.
• The top journalism program in Alabama.
• One of the top journalism programs among U.S. private universities.
• One of the top journalism programs in the South
Great students, great alumni, hardworking faculty, big rankings.
Other local news:
Baptist minister explains why she will be performing the first same-sex marriage ceremony in Huntsville
Unitarian, pagan and other ministers officiate gay weddings; one Methodist pastor dances
Grandfather visiting Alabama from India stopped by police while taking walk, left partly paralyzed
Enterprise student submits winning design to NASA
Alabama Psychiatric Services close across state
And a few tech links to call it a day:
Millennials Spend More Time With Mobile, Impacts TV Time
The homepage is alive — here are 64 ideas for what it could become
The long-lost Apollo 11 artifacts discovered in Neil Armstrong’s closet
That last one is interesting, but read your Hansen and it will make perfect sense.
