Anchor: Faced with slashed state funding, the University of Colorado is entertaining the idea of merging its journalism school with other disciplines to create a broader "school of information."
VO (Camera pans across the armory and then across the ATLAS building): The proposed merger would combine the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society with The School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Given the current boom in digital media and the ongoing evolution of Journalism, CU educators say that the combination makes sense both academically as well as financially.
(Cut to video of Dean Paul Vokes): Quote- "We've got a faculty that is definitely aware and studying these changes. In terms of all of the cutting-edge technical aspects, we see a wonderful opportunity with ATLAS.
Anchor: The University of Colorado would not be the first university to take such actions. According to a preliminary report, more than 25 'schools of information', existing under various names, have been created at comparable universities across the country. The merger has potential benefits for both institutions. ATLAS needs to cut its $1.16 million general fund annual budget by 10 percent, while the journalism school needs to cut 7.7 percent of its $3.9 million general fund annual budget.
VO (Run clip of Lauren Brown working in the lab): Both the faculty and students agree that this transition does not seem overbearing.
(Cut to video of Dean Paul Vokes): "There's a very active interest that our students have in the Technology, Arts and Media program, It's a very good sign for things we can accomplish in the future."
Anchor: In a rapidly changing digital environment, the merger could give the journalism school the technological edge that will keeps its students afloat.
(Cut to video of Lauren Brown): ""I think that with emerging digital media being so present in advertising and journalism, you have to have these skills to be a marketable candidate."
Anchor: While the introduction of the school of information could lessen the severity of the budget cuts suffered by both institutions, the merger could mean the elimination of at least one job.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Hard News Leads
1.) Three to four children die every day in the United States from child abuse or neglect according to a survey released yesterday by the Child Abuse Prevention Center.
2.) Nearly 150 anti-abortion protesters were arrested yesterday outside an abortion clinic in Milwaukee.
3.) A delivery driver was robbed of Chinese food at gunpoint yesterday outside the apartment complex at 718 S.W. Western Ave.
4.) Kathy Mahoney suffered minor burns on her hands and feet when a fire broke out in her two bedroom home in the 2300 block of Main Street causing $45,000 in damages.
5.) Murders in Colorado are up 53 percent according to a report released yesterday by the Bureau of Investigation.
6.) Depleting ozone levels could lead to a 10-percent increase in skin cancer according to a report released yesterday by the United Nations scientific panel.
7.) June Carter, 71, was charged with attempted murder yesterday after she doused her husband with rubbing alcohol and set him on fire.
8.) The number of broadband users surpassed the number of people using dial-up Internet access in the United States this year. The United States trailed 12 of the 15 top countries in broadband penetration according to a September report from the U.N. International Telecommunication Union.
9.) Princeton University limited the number of A's that are allowed to be handed out to no more than 35 percent of its students this school year.
10.) Sleep deprivation and sleep disorders are estimated to cost Americans over $100 billion annually according to the National Sleep Foundation.
2.) Nearly 150 anti-abortion protesters were arrested yesterday outside an abortion clinic in Milwaukee.
3.) A delivery driver was robbed of Chinese food at gunpoint yesterday outside the apartment complex at 718 S.W. Western Ave.
4.) Kathy Mahoney suffered minor burns on her hands and feet when a fire broke out in her two bedroom home in the 2300 block of Main Street causing $45,000 in damages.
5.) Murders in Colorado are up 53 percent according to a report released yesterday by the Bureau of Investigation.
6.) Depleting ozone levels could lead to a 10-percent increase in skin cancer according to a report released yesterday by the United Nations scientific panel.
7.) June Carter, 71, was charged with attempted murder yesterday after she doused her husband with rubbing alcohol and set him on fire.
8.) The number of broadband users surpassed the number of people using dial-up Internet access in the United States this year. The United States trailed 12 of the 15 top countries in broadband penetration according to a September report from the U.N. International Telecommunication Union.
9.) Princeton University limited the number of A's that are allowed to be handed out to no more than 35 percent of its students this school year.
10.) Sleep deprivation and sleep disorders are estimated to cost Americans over $100 billion annually according to the National Sleep Foundation.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
In class assignment
Tyson Gibb
In Class Assignment
a.) The small town of Panora, Ia welcomed home one of its soldiers Friday. Instead of arriving to jubilant well-wishers and a parade down Main Street, 525 mourners packed the United Methodist Church where cars stretched to the West Cemetery outside of town.
b.) Flags at half-staff and patriotic ribbons surrounding the altar accompanied tears of grief at the funeral.
c.) To the rest of the country, Army Spec. Michael Mills was just one more casualty of the war, killed alongside 28 others when a suicide bomb exploded on Feb. 25. To the 1,100 people paying their respects here, Mike Mills was a 23-year-old hometown boy known for carrying on the family tradition of joining the army. His funeral providing a somber contrast to the joyous reunions held for returning troops throughout the country.
In Class Assignment
a.) The small town of Panora, Ia welcomed home one of its soldiers Friday. Instead of arriving to jubilant well-wishers and a parade down Main Street, 525 mourners packed the United Methodist Church where cars stretched to the West Cemetery outside of town.
b.) Flags at half-staff and patriotic ribbons surrounding the altar accompanied tears of grief at the funeral.
c.) To the rest of the country, Army Spec. Michael Mills was just one more casualty of the war, killed alongside 28 others when a suicide bomb exploded on Feb. 25. To the 1,100 people paying their respects here, Mike Mills was a 23-year-old hometown boy known for carrying on the family tradition of joining the army. His funeral providing a somber contrast to the joyous reunions held for returning troops throughout the country.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Blogging a scene.
As I sit on one of the austere wrought iron benches that conveniently trace out the edges of the Norlin back entrance, I light a camel filter hoping it will stimulate the funeral paced clock that ticks out my library induced purgatory. My jeans offer only meager resistance to the cold which seeps out of the metallic black bars holding me off the floor.
A modest congregation of fellow smokers indiscriminately splays out around me, and we share the quiescent moment anti-climactically sucking our lives away through a cotton filter. The overwhelming majority of my unnamed compatriots are men. We pass the time by staring at the ground saying absolutely nothing to each other. I can only assume that we are too engrossed in our thoughts of titties and beer to formulate needless conversation.
Long periods of silence are punctuated only by a hacking cough that emanates from a bespectacled young man's throat and reverberates off the colossal back wall, journeying out into the star obstructing cloud coverage of the late night sky.
Another demure inspection of the ground reveals that the interlocking tile resembles a beach front invasion. Discarded cigarette butts, which by now look like the tattered corpses strewn across Omaha Beach, lay heedlessly wherever they have fallen.
Immediately to my right, revolving glass doors stand sentinel at the entrance, separating the catacombs of knowledge inside from the brisk night air.
A rosy cheeked young woman appears on the scene, freshening the testosterone laden air as she walks pointedly to the entrance. Her delicate footfalls radiate out and follow benignly behind our bespectacled friend's dry cough.
Our feminine visitor's presence is cut short as she overcomes the rotating glass door's stagnant inertia and recedes into the building.
At this point I am forced to follow her lead, and I take one fleeting glance at the desolation around me before heading inside to swallow another hefty work load.
A modest congregation of fellow smokers indiscriminately splays out around me, and we share the quiescent moment anti-climactically sucking our lives away through a cotton filter. The overwhelming majority of my unnamed compatriots are men. We pass the time by staring at the ground saying absolutely nothing to each other. I can only assume that we are too engrossed in our thoughts of titties and beer to formulate needless conversation.
Long periods of silence are punctuated only by a hacking cough that emanates from a bespectacled young man's throat and reverberates off the colossal back wall, journeying out into the star obstructing cloud coverage of the late night sky.
Another demure inspection of the ground reveals that the interlocking tile resembles a beach front invasion. Discarded cigarette butts, which by now look like the tattered corpses strewn across Omaha Beach, lay heedlessly wherever they have fallen.
Immediately to my right, revolving glass doors stand sentinel at the entrance, separating the catacombs of knowledge inside from the brisk night air.
A rosy cheeked young woman appears on the scene, freshening the testosterone laden air as she walks pointedly to the entrance. Her delicate footfalls radiate out and follow benignly behind our bespectacled friend's dry cough.
Our feminine visitor's presence is cut short as she overcomes the rotating glass door's stagnant inertia and recedes into the building.
At this point I am forced to follow her lead, and I take one fleeting glance at the desolation around me before heading inside to swallow another hefty work load.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Rove vs. Dean
1.) The first angle could dissect the recent historical contributions administered by these two men and weigh each man's political disposition against each other. It could be angled to address what each man is bringing to the debate, in order to adequately illustrate each man's unique perspective. This could potentially ground the center outside the actual debate enough to allow someone who hadn't seen it to write the story.
2.) The most basic story angle would cover the debate itself. This story would center wholly around what actually occurred in the debate and give the who, what, when, where and how of the event itself.
3.) Another angle could analyze the local public's reaction to the debate. The two debaters are sure to have an extremely polarizing effect on the community. Karl Rove's mere presence has prompted protest at multiple universities throughout the United States. Controversial figures such as these will undoubtedly elicit some kind of response, and this story has the potential to be written be somone who did not actually attend the debate.
4.) I'm not sure if Dean and Rove have had prior meetings up on the podium, but someone could analyze how this meeting compares to previous discourses they have held.
5.) The final angle could filter the debate down to the questions asked. It could expound upon what the questions reflect about the concerns of the community, and investigate how well the politicians' responses addressed these concerns.
2.) The most basic story angle would cover the debate itself. This story would center wholly around what actually occurred in the debate and give the who, what, when, where and how of the event itself.
3.) Another angle could analyze the local public's reaction to the debate. The two debaters are sure to have an extremely polarizing effect on the community. Karl Rove's mere presence has prompted protest at multiple universities throughout the United States. Controversial figures such as these will undoubtedly elicit some kind of response, and this story has the potential to be written be somone who did not actually attend the debate.
4.) I'm not sure if Dean and Rove have had prior meetings up on the podium, but someone could analyze how this meeting compares to previous discourses they have held.
5.) The final angle could filter the debate down to the questions asked. It could expound upon what the questions reflect about the concerns of the community, and investigate how well the politicians' responses addressed these concerns.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Left of Center
A study comparing the death and accident rates of left- and right-handed people has illustrated a surprising disparity in life expectancies. The study, conducted last year by psychology professor Diane Halpern of California State University at San Bernardino and researcher Stanley Coren from the University of British Columbia, endeavored to determine why fewer left-handed people are among the elderly population.
The researchers studied the death certificates of 987 people in two Southern California counties, corresponding with relatives to ascertain the subjects' dominant hands. They found that the average age at death for right-handed people was 75 years, while their left-handed counterparts averaged a mere 66 by comparison.
"The results are striking in their magnitude." said Halpern. "We knew for years that there weren't as many old left-handers. Researchers thought that was because in the early years of the century, most people born left-handed were forced to change to their right hands. The truth was that there simply weren't as many left-handers left alive, compared to right-handers."
According to the study, left-handed people were four times more likely to die from injuries while driving than right-handers and six times more likely to die from accidents of all kinds.
Interestingly, the gap between life expectancies of right- and left-handed people was more prominent in males than females. While left-handed women died an average of six years earlier than their right-handed counterparts at the age of 72, left-handed men died an average of 11 years earlier than right-handed men at the age of 62.
Halpern attributes these significant differences in statistics to the right-hand dominated world in which we all live in. In fact, they may reflect a previously unknown difference in the way left- and right-handed people interact with the world around them. "Almost all engineering is geared to the right hand and right foot," she said. "There are many more car and other accidents among left-handers because of their environment."
Although the results could potentially be disheartening for left-handers everywhere, Halpern suggests that it is important not to change which hand a child uses. "There are many, many old left-handed people," she said.
Despite what appear to be odds stacked against them, old lefties are out there, occasionally smearing ink on their palm as their left hand scribbles out their memoirs.
Visual presentation: A graphic could include some of the statistics presented in the article. A pull quote could also be considered, perhaps of Halpern's assertion that "The results are striking in their magnitude."
The researchers studied the death certificates of 987 people in two Southern California counties, corresponding with relatives to ascertain the subjects' dominant hands. They found that the average age at death for right-handed people was 75 years, while their left-handed counterparts averaged a mere 66 by comparison.
"The results are striking in their magnitude." said Halpern. "We knew for years that there weren't as many old left-handers. Researchers thought that was because in the early years of the century, most people born left-handed were forced to change to their right hands. The truth was that there simply weren't as many left-handers left alive, compared to right-handers."
According to the study, left-handed people were four times more likely to die from injuries while driving than right-handers and six times more likely to die from accidents of all kinds.
Interestingly, the gap between life expectancies of right- and left-handed people was more prominent in males than females. While left-handed women died an average of six years earlier than their right-handed counterparts at the age of 72, left-handed men died an average of 11 years earlier than right-handed men at the age of 62.
Halpern attributes these significant differences in statistics to the right-hand dominated world in which we all live in. In fact, they may reflect a previously unknown difference in the way left- and right-handed people interact with the world around them. "Almost all engineering is geared to the right hand and right foot," she said. "There are many more car and other accidents among left-handers because of their environment."
Although the results could potentially be disheartening for left-handers everywhere, Halpern suggests that it is important not to change which hand a child uses. "There are many, many old left-handed people," she said.
Despite what appear to be odds stacked against them, old lefties are out there, occasionally smearing ink on their palm as their left hand scribbles out their memoirs.
Visual presentation: A graphic could include some of the statistics presented in the article. A pull quote could also be considered, perhaps of Halpern's assertion that "The results are striking in their magnitude."
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Research Homework #2
1.) a) Total Population of Colorado based on 2009 census = 5,024,748.
b) 2.6% of this total population was made up of asian or pacific islanders, so there are 130,643 asian or pacific islanders in Colorado.
url= http://www.census.gov/popest/estimates.html
2.) a) http://www.familywatchdog.us/
b) David Dakota Baldeagle is a convicted rape offender who lives about 10 blocks away from me near flagstaff, and works around campus.
c) url= http://www.dpscs.state.md.us/sorSearch/search.do?searchType=byHighEd&anchor=offlist
3.) Here is the crime statistics for University of Colorado at Boulder.
url= http://ope.ed.gov/security/InstDetails.aspx?706172656e7469643d31323636313426756e697469643d313236363134303126796561723d32303038267264743d322f322f323031302031323a31313a323320504d
b) There were 7 forcible sex offenses reported in 2008 (The latest year available), and 59 burglaries.
4.) Senator Mark Udall received $12,015,829. Senator Michael Bennet received $3,661,380. This is according to opensecrets.org
5.) a) In 2008, Bill Ritter received $984,026 in contributions.
b) Bill Ritter received 2,167 different contributions to achieve the sum total above.
c)
6.) a) The latest government figure for tuition cost is $16,245
b) What was the average tuition, fees, room and board at four-year public institutions for the latest year available? It was $13,424
c) Same question but with private schools yielded an average of $30,393.
7.) Homepage for the state of Colorado: www.colorado.gov/
8.) Homepage for Boulder: http://ci.boulder.co.us/
b) 2.6% of this total population was made up of asian or pacific islanders, so there are 130,643 asian or pacific islanders in Colorado.
url= http://www.census.gov/popest/estimates.html
2.) a) http://www.familywatchdog.us/
b) David Dakota Baldeagle is a convicted rape offender who lives about 10 blocks away from me near flagstaff, and works around campus.
c) url= http://www.dpscs.state.md.us/sorSearch/search.do?searchType=byHighEd&anchor=offlist
3.) Here is the crime statistics for University of Colorado at Boulder.
url= http://ope.ed.gov/security/InstDetails.aspx?706172656e7469643d31323636313426756e697469643d313236363134303126796561723d32303038267264743d322f322f323031302031323a31313a323320504d
b) There were 7 forcible sex offenses reported in 2008 (The latest year available), and 59 burglaries.
4.) Senator Mark Udall received $12,015,829. Senator Michael Bennet received $3,661,380. This is according to opensecrets.org
5.) a) In 2008, Bill Ritter received $984,026 in contributions.
b) Bill Ritter received 2,167 different contributions to achieve the sum total above.
c)
6.) a) The latest government figure for tuition cost is $16,245
b) What was the average tuition, fees, room and board at four-year public institutions for the latest year available? It was $13,424
c) Same question but with private schools yielded an average of $30,393.
7.) Homepage for the state of Colorado: www.colorado.gov/
8.) Homepage for Boulder: http://ci.boulder.co.us/
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