I know storytelling is universal and I tell my students so. But an article like this from Scientific American is a great reinforcer.
While the industry changes and evolves and mutates, there will be a need for people to tell stories. We just have to work at telling those stories accurately, deeply and authentically.
Here’s more about Twitter , which I need to start using just to check this stuff out. It’s on my list of media things to accomplish before the year’s out. (Among pressing projects, I want to do shoot and edit video.)
I just finished reading the blogs from the students in my feature-writing class. The links are under Feature in my blogroll. I am blown away at the variety, topics and voices. Literally, I laughed at a funny Barack Obama post in a blog about music and I cried at a commerical in a blog dissecting ads. I realized while I was reading them that this is a great assignment to help students find their own voices in their writing. Having a blog is one way to gain that experience.
A former colleague posted this on his Facebook page and I, too, am moved by the eloquent and heart-wrenching way she describes her last day and how she writes of the news business and its problems.
