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• March 26, 2012
• 5:54 pm
• Ralph Braseth
• one comment

Conversation lost in texting

Study after study is revealing what most of us already suspect. Teenagers have a difficult time communicating face to face.

• March 26, 2010
• 3:40 pm
• Ralph Braseth
• one comment

News Literacy

What the heck is news literacy? I had a primer two weeks ago when I sat down with three grant officers from the McCormick Foundation and Don Heider, dean of the school of communication at Loyola University Chicago.

Most literacy projects are aimed at American youth. According to the folks at McCormick, [...]

• February 15, 2010
• 12:48 pm
• Ralph Braseth
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Loyola launches $1.5 million media convergence lab

Street-Side TV and Radio Studio Unveiled on

Loyola University Chicago’s Water Tower Campus

$1.5M Studio Situated Downtown Chicago, on the Corner of Pearson and Wabash

CHICAGO, February 15, 2010 –Loyola University Chicago School of Communication (SOC) students looking to hone their skills in [...]

• December 7, 2009
• 10:39 am
• Ralph Braseth
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Let Me Tell You Who I am (You are what you wear?)

The flood of holiday catalogs has come. As usual, I am struck by how many clothing items seem designed to announce something about the wearer. Now, in general, this is nothing new. For well over two thousand years, humans have used clothing to signify rank and allegiance and status. Indeed, it is difficult NOT [...]

• November 12, 2009
• 1:59 pm
• Ralph Braseth
• one comment

Public unlikely to pony up for paywalls

Poll Shows Paywalls Won’t Save Newspapers

This week, mediabistro.com asked 1682 users, “Do you think paywalls will save newspapers?”
Here are the results:

· 65% said paywalls won’t work because readers will get their news from web sites that don’t charge.

· 20% felt paywalls won’t work because they won’t find enough subscribers.

· 12% said [...]

• November 12, 2009
• 1:27 pm
• Ralph Braseth
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Students ponder Afghanistan options

What does a conscientious citizen need to know about Afghanistan to evaluate what President Obama says when he announces in the next few weeks his plans for the war there?

My class in Historical and Critical Issues in Journalism spent most of a three-hour class session recently discussing that and developing [...]

• November 12, 2009
• 10:35 am
• Ralph Braseth
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Sabine Schramm earns campus-wide honor

Sabine Schramm

Loyola’s School of Communication is a complicated and busy place.

40 faculty and staff
900 students
75+ classes per semester
Research
Service

Helping keep the school functioning at a high level is Ms. Sabine Schramm, our administrative  assistant. Her excellent work performance and ethic is not only realized in the School of Communication, but also throughout the University. On [...]

• November 7, 2009
• 8:10 pm
• Ralph Braseth
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Loyola wins grants for journalism innovation

The Loyola School of Communication was awarded a $45,000 grant November 5 for an innovative journalism project aimed at covering news in Chicago’s Pilsen community.

Largely ignored by the commercial media, the new Web site, Adentro de Pilsen (Inside Pilsen) will cover Chicago’s largest Hispanic community. Under the Chicago Community Trust’s new initiative, Community News Matters, [...]

• November 6, 2009
• 5:00 pm
• Ralph Braseth
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Journalism professor fights for journalism students

Loyola Journalism Professor Beth Konrad is gaining national attention as
she fights to prevent prosecutors from gaining access to the notes,
emails, even the grades of a group of local journalism students
investigating the case of a death row inmate.

Konrad, in her role as president of the Chicago Headline Club is championing

the cause of students from Northwestwern’s Medill [...]

• November 5, 2009
• 11:48 am
• Ralph Braseth
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Counting stories

The November 1, 2009 New York Times devoted an entire section to upcoming films, the so-called “holiday film” line up. And, as I have often done when presented with such a list, I count. I count the stories and see if I can easily tell which ones seem to center around [...]