Photos by Bruce Squiers

What's in store in the week ahead

Jo-Ann Armao, Washington Post


Bruce Squiers, The Daily Gazette, Schenectady


We will have two speakers coming in next week. Please try to make it to class. My admonitions and threats of lowered grades seem not to have helped, but you are adults, so make your own decisions.

I hope you will come and be prepared with lots of questions, good, bad, personal, impertinent, probing, weird. There are no stupid questions.

Monday we will hear from Jo-Ann Armao, a Washington Post editorial writer. She was for nine years the assistant managing editor for local news at the Post, the highest news position ever held there by a woman. OK, not counting Katharine Graham, the legendary publisher during the Watergate years.

She will be talking about editorial writing and how it differs from news writing. You will be given an assignment to blog about after this. It will be due by end of day Wednesday.

Wednesday, our speaker with be a senior photographer from The Daily Gazette in Schenectady, Bruce Squiers. And again after this class, you'll get an assignment to post to your blogs no later than end of day Friday.

Opportunity that may interest some of you

Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 6:11 PM
To: C2008
Cc: C2008
Subject: FW: Campaign 2008: Leadership in Communication Program



Dear Colleagues:

I am writing to those interested in political communication about a
program that The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars
is sponsoring in conjunction with the Democratic and Republican national
conventions this summer. It is a three-week program that will involve
students in journalism and communication to engage in fieldwork
assignments with the media at both conventions. We have about 10 spaces
left in the program, so I would appreciate your passing on the
information to advanced students in the field-- undergraduate, graduate
or forthcoming May or August graduates. This is an exceptional
opportunity because the conventions are rarely held back-to-back as
there are this year.

Students spend two weeks in Denver and then head directly to
Minneapolis-St. Paul for the Republican convention.

For more information, please direct your students to:
http://www.twc.edu/faculty

The online application is at http://www.campaign2008.info
. Students should select the Leadership
in Communication program option when applying.


Thank you for passing along this information.

Sincerely,
Gene Alpert

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Eugene J. Alpert, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President
The Washington Center
for Internships and Academic Seminars
1333 16th St. NW
Washington, DC 20036
Http://www.twc.edu
New! Campaign 2008 Website and Application:
http://www.campaign2008.info
email: genea@twc.edu
Toll Free Phone: 1.800.486.8921
Main Phone:: 1.202.238.7900
Direct Phone:: 1.202.238.7984
Fax: 1.202.238.7700
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Pulitzer Prizes

The Washington Post piece we talked about in which violinist Joshua Bell played to an unappreciative Metro system of commuters won a Pulitzer Prize for feature reporting this week.

And Bob Dylan whose poetic lyrics can teach all kinds of writers won a special honorary Pulitzer this year for his contribution to music and American culture.

To see all the winners -- and read some of the best reporting and writing in the world of journalism -- check out: www.pulitzer.org

Covering a Meeting

Your assignment is to cover and to write a story about one of these meetings in the city of Albany or towns of Colonie and Guilderland.

Your story should be at least two pages long and it is due by midnight the DAY AFTER the meeting you choose to attend. Thus, the last assignment should be in to me no later than April 25.



4/7/2008
Common Council Meeting
The Albany Common Council represents the residents of the City of Albany as the legislative body responsible for setting the governing policies of New York State’s Capital city.

4/9/2008
Board of Zoning Appeals Meeting
The Board meets twice monthly to consider applications for variances to the zoning regulations, special use and parking.
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4/9/2008
Albany Housing Authority Meeting
The Albany Housing Authority provides housing accommodations for persons of low income.

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4/16/2008
Historic Resources Commission Meeting
The Historic Resources Commission reviews and makes recommendations regarding new construction, alterations and demolitions.

4/21/2008
Common Council Meeting
The Albany Common Council represents the residents of the City of Albany as the legislative body responsible for setting the governing policies of New York State’s Capital city.

4/23/2008
Board of Zoning Appeals Meeting
The Board meets twice monthly to consider applications for variances to the zoning regulations, special use and parking.

4/24/2008
Planning Board Meeting
The purpose of the Planning Board is to approve the subdivision of City of Albany property and to review site plans for landscaping, parking and drainage before large-scale projects are constructed.


or
Colonie Town Board April 10 and 24

or
Guilderland Town Board April 15

A journalism professor complains about students -- do you have an answer back for him??

http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=9WdWMfPrdR9HJDmcJcW5pMkf4bvmpvgp

Three children killed by their father in Baltimore

Here is the story as it has developed after a couple of days as reporters have had time to track down records and more sources.

Please read this story from the Baltimore Sun and another from the = Washington Post and be prepared to discuss them in class Wednesday:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-castillo0401,0,6527538.story

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040101063.html