I. News and Announcements
• Calling all seniors! Drop by the Senior Lunch and T-Shirt Give-Away (right) at noon on Thursday, May 2, in Bartlett 107. We'll have Bub's barbecue and cake!
• Check out
a rendering of the new Journalism space being built near the pond.
• Today is the
UMass Founders Day cookout. Celebrate with a free lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the lawn in front of Goodell.
II. Internships, Scholarships and Freelancing
•
Grassroots Campaign, an outfit that designs and runs campaigns on behalf of various progressive advocacy groups,
is looking to hire students for paid positions in their outreach teams this summer. Top candidates become field managers who help plan out outreach strategy and oversee staff on a daily basis.
• The Boston Globe and Boston.com
are looking for a "creative technologist" for the summer. This is a paid, full-time position funded by the Knight Foundation. The main responsibility is "to write code that would, ideally, take an external research project (or set of ideas) and turn them into a real live project." Strong development skills are a must, and applicants should either be familiar with or easily learn PHP, Javascript and MySQL.
• Journalism student Taylor Smaldone ('15) is starting an online publication for queer and marginalized people in the Pioneer Valley. The publication will be focused on entertainment, education and health, and will be called College Queers. They are
inviting all writers, musicians, poets, artists, photographers and activists to be a part of this organization dedicated to building community across and beyond campuses. If interested, please
email the editors.
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III. Advising Information
• Wednesday, May 1, is the last day of classes. Final exams begin on Friday, May 3, and end on Thursday, May 9. The
Commencement ceremony is scheduled for Friday, May 10, and the
SBS Senior Celebration is scheduled for Saturday, May 11.
• If you haven't done it already, check your final exam schedule on SPIRE to
make sure that you have no time conflicts.
• The following advanced writing Journalism courses still have available seats: Journ 497B: Diaries, Memoirs & Journals; Journ 397TG: Investigative Journalism and the Web; Journ 397G: Multimedia Journalism; Journ 395N: Broadcast News Reporting; Journ 393N: Reporting for Radio and Podcasting; Journ 332: Sports Journalism.
•
Registration is open for
all CPE summer courses. The
Journalism Program is offering six online courses during Session 1 (May 20 to April 28): Journ 201: Intro to Journalism; Journ 332: Sports Journalism; Journ 391T: Travel Writing; Journ 392P: Writing for Public Relations; Journ 460: Journalism Ethics; and Journ 435: Web Design for Journalists, and four online courses during Session 2 (July 8 - August 16): Journ 300: Newswriting and Reporting; Journ 333: Intro to Digital Photojournalism; Journ 391J: Writing About Food; Journ 397DJ: Infographics and Data Journalism. These courses are not covered by tuition, but
financial aid is available. They can all be counted toward the regular Journalism major.
IV. Faculty and Alumni News
• Brian McDermott wrote
a piece for the NPPA about photojournalism students, spot news and the Boston Marathon bombing, and photographed an assignment for the most recent issue of CommonWealth Magazine.
• ABC's Good Morning America used
a video clip on the Boston Marathon bomber shot by Journalism alum Matt Cadwallader ('09) in a segment Thursday night.
• Alum Matt Rocheleau ('10)
got a byline on Boston.com's "captured" story about the Boston Marathon bomber.
• Read a Q&A with alums
Eric Athas ('08, NPR) and
Melissa Turtinen ('09, WHDH-TV) about their coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing.
• Online instructor Carl Vigeland published
an article about writer Archibald MacLeish on PoetryFoundation.org.
