Opinion: College grads, 30 isn't the new 20
Our 20s are life’s developmental sweet spot. They matter. A lot.
George Bernard Shaw
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Reasons to take a break from your desk job
Thanks to Mashable. I work from home starting this week and I worry about sitting too much…
i learned more about my classmates through their tumblrs than i did having class with them for the past four years.
just got it. so excited for my 630am alarm tomorrow
Uniqlo ‘Wake Up’ Social App.
Japanese clothing brand, Uniqlo have launched an innovative new social alarm app that aims to make waking up every day an enjoyable experience. The alarm music, which is automatically created based on the weather, time, and day of the week, was co-written by 51st annual Grammy nominee Cornelius (Keigo Oyamada) and Yoko Kanno, who is active in songwriting across a wide range of genres including video games and anime (COWBOY BEBOP, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Macross).
The app allows users to share a record of their awakening – specifically, the time, weather, and temperature at the moment they stopped the alarm – via social media channels including Facebook and Twitter. In addition, the “wake up records” shared by users around the world are displayed in a part of the app via its World Wake Up function.
Available to download now, free of charge for Android and iPhones. Head to uniqlo-wakeup.com to find out more.
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Journalists like to think of themselves as responding to a calling, or duty. For some journalists, there are stories that are worth taking a calculated risk to obtain—pieces that establish responsibility for organized rapes or massacres, for example, or reports that implicate powerful figures in corruption or organized crime. These are stories that would otherwise not be told.
Every high-risk decision brings both the potential of lasting, positive impact, and the possibility of permanent, tragic loss. Decisions about risk are highly personal, but the individual should be keenly self-aware. Your emotions come into play, as does adrenaline. A good story with an element of danger can bring with it a rush as compelling as sex or drugs.
In such a moment, you might be wise to ask yourself: Am I being driven by the emotions of the moment? How much of my decision is driven by ego? How much am I motivated by telling the story—and how much by the glory I might derive from telling it? Am I trying to prove something to myself or others? Perhaps every journalist is motivated by some incalculable mix of service and ego, intellect and emotion. Experience can help you better discern between duty, ego, and adrenaline.
My advice: Give yourself a chance to understand not only your coverage area, but yourself. There are plenty of tough stories to go around. If you really want to take on a dangerous beat, you’ll get your chance. So, yes, J-school students, your professors are right: Go ahead, go overseas. But start with a beat that allows you to learn—mainly about yourself.
—Frank Smyth, Senior Adviser for Journalist Security, Committee to Protect Journalists. Should J-School grads just get up and go overseas? (via futurejournalismproject)
The tech industry’s testosterone level can make the thickest-skinned women consider a different career. But the rise of the brogrammer joke and its ensuing backlash has some benefits: It helps talented women choose worthy employers, it gives a name and face to a problem that plagues the industry and it publicly shames some of the most sexist offenders.
New handbook to threaten AP’s hold on style?
In an industry where the AP Stylebook reigns supreme, a new guide to journalistic writing has been unveiled.
The Data Journalism Handbook made its debut during the International Journalism Festival, which was held in April 25-29 in Perugia, Italy.
The handbook, which is available free online here, is divided into seven sections which include “What is Data Journalism,” “Why Journalists Should Use Data” and “How to Hire a Hacker.”
Data journalism, also known as “Data Driven Journalism,” is defined by journalist Jonathon Stray as
“obtaining, reporting on, curating and publishing data in the public interest.”
SUNY Oswego’s current journalism curriculum includes little data driven journalism courses, although majors have the option to pursue the ‘Investigative Methods’ track, according to the course program guide.
With the evolution of technology to allow any action to be transformed into data, it will be interesting to see if this handbook becomes as crucial to any journalist’s bag as the AP Stylebook.
Personally, I believe a data journalism handbook is needed in today’s industry - at least to show prospective journalists how to utilize and base their stories around data. In my four years, I can’t recall learning any of the practices outlined in the handbook.
Do you think this new handbook will change the journalism industry?
WSJ finds new use for Timeline
The Wall Street Journal has found a new use for Facebook’s Timeline feature - to track the formation of the social media giant up to it’s stock market launch later this month.
The Wall Street Journal used the Timeline feature to track important event’s in the life of the network,…
