I need wire!

With the upcoming demise of asap (the AP's wire service for it's youth markets), it seems that we need to take a step back and think about exactly what college journalists need from a wire service.

At the ideal college paper, students create all the content for one of those worthwhile learning experiences that we hear all about. This means that theoretically, a college newspaper should have no need for a wire service.

But theory isn't practice. A college newspaper doesn't have the staff or budget to cover national issues, even if they are hugely relevant to campus life. There are plenty of topics that make the idea of a wire service useful. And if we circle back around to that whole learning experience idea: if you're planning to go into journalism as a career, you're going to need a concept of how a wire service works.

An added bonus is the idea that a newspaper might be able to at least earn back their wire expenditures with the value of their own material.

In the end, the real question is how to keep a college wire service functioning.

Link: Most US Teens, Young Adults Don't Follow The News Closely

Editor and Publisher

Among Americans aged 18 to 30, researchers found that 48 percent said they are “inattentive” to daily news. Comparatively, only 23 percent of older Americans said the same.

Link: A New Branded Journalism

Chicago Reader:

John Lavine, the founding director of Medill’s profit-making Media Management Center, was named dean of Medill in late 2005 with instructions to turn the school upside down. The IMC curriculum had already been overhauled, and Lavine has left it pretty much alone. But the journalism side is being rewritten in a way that’s made a lot of the faculty feel disdained, as if Lavine thinks their heads are in the past and his is in the future.

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Link: Images that changed the world

Images that changed the world

1. This is just a collection of images, hence no excerpt, etc. But a pretty good one.
2. I recommend against attempting to view other pages on the linked website, but only because it crashed my browser (Firefox).
   

Link: WJEC Declaration of Principles of Journalism Education

Mindy McAdams:

Last week in Singapore, at the first-ever World Journalism Education Congress, journalism educators from around the world adopted the Declaration of Principles of Journalism Education.

Full text here. More information here.

Link: BBC Journalist Freed in Gaza After 16 Weeks

New York Times:

GAZA, July 4 — Alan Johnston, the BBC Gaza correspondent who was kidnapped March 12, was freed early this morning and is now in Israel, preparing to fly home to Britain.