Hechinger Institute's First Video Blogger - November '07 Seminar
When reporter Diana Costello showed up at the Hechinger Institute's seminar for higher education reporters in November, she packed a bit of powerful technology along with her reporter's notebook: a small, hand-held video camera.
From the November '07 Seminar
College Presidents Describe How They View U.S. News & World Report Rankings at Hechinger Higher Education Seminar in New York City
Covering a College or Its President? Here Are a Few Useful Tips From the Wall Street Journal's John Hechinger
SEC FILINGS: For stories aboutcollege presidents who serve on corporate boards—or any articles involving companies and colleges—Securities and Exchange Commission filings are a gold mine. Use the Edgar database for free online searches for information on presidents, administrators and professors at http://www.sec.gov/.
A Reporter's Story: How We Uncovered UC's Lavish Spending
It was really just a simple reporter's hunch that led to our series on the University of California's pay practices.
To Cover Religion's Role in Schools, Explain Issues -- Don't Sensationalize
Laura Kennedy, a high school social studies and geography teacher in Fayetteville, Ga., had an un fortunate experience with her local newspaper recently. She was teaching a unit on the Middle East and had invited a speaker from a local mosque to talk about the role of religion in the region.
Veterans Talk about How to Find Drama on Schools Beat
Schools are what Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Professor and New York Times columnist Sam Freedman calls the "switchboard" of society — where everything happening in a community, a town, a nation gets plugged into classrooms, the hallways, the cafeteria and the teachers' lunchroom. Schools, he says, are like stage sets where human dramas, small and large, play out every day.
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