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THE COLLEGIATE JOURNALIST
Fall 2006 - Volume 36, Issue 1
The Collegiate Journalist is an online journal for
students, professors, and practitioners of journalism.

Journalism’s New Trajectory: Meeting New Challenges with Core Values
by Michael J. Roberts

The morning of November 7th portended an easy day: just a few obligatory stories about voter turnout, last minute exhortations by the state parties, interviews with first-time voters – you get the picture.

25 Years Ago this Fall...
Long Live Humor: Being Funny Sometimes Very Serious Business
by Roberta Clay
(from TCJ Volume 8, Issue 2)

There's nothing else in a college newspaper quite as explosive as humor. And what it may take to fuse the bomb is anybody’s guess. The barbs may wound an innocent bystander.

Widening Your Job Search in Your Target Market
by Frank Barnas

A fundamental problem arises with collegiate journalists as graduation looms. The job market is uncertain, fickle, and more daunting than imagined during the start of college. Students run the gamut of emotions, even sometimes second-guessing why they ever wanted to become journalists.

Clichés, Euphemisms, and Redundancies
by Robert Stevenson
(reprint courtesy of Quill & Scroll magazine)

If you’re like me, each time you read your own writing, you find additional opportunities for improvement. I find that when you work diligently at revision, improved writing always results. Revision (re + vision) means “to see again”.

Reporters who seek to improve their writing might do well to first improve their listening. Many reporters who resist such advice probably overlook the subtle, but significant distinction between hearing and listening. Hearing is to listening as talking is to public speaking; hearing, like talking, comes naturally, but listening, like public speaking, takes training and practice.

Editor's Notes...
The Collegiate Journalist: New Format, New Faces
by Adam Earnheardt

"Welcome back!"

That cheer greets all of us as we head back to school. It's also an appropriate greeting for The Collegiate Journalist as the publication makes it triumphant return from an eight-year hiatus.