academic editor for hire

If you're searching for an academic editor, please click on that link.

LISTEN to this radio report

We'll talk about it as part of a discussion on journalism ethics:

http://www.npr.org/2015/04/05/397732034/rolling-stone-report-reveals-systemic-failing-behind-campus-rape-story

(It's about the Rolling Stone article alleging a gang rape on University of Virginia's campus.)

Everyone has to read this

I'm going to go easy on you for the rest of the semester regarding the articles. I'll just send you interesting stuff from time to time. You must read this:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/i-followed-my-stolen-iphone-across-the-world-became-a-celebr#.dwPybgYl8

You should be working for the campus newspaper

Below is an appeal from Mr. Klein for students to work at the Campus Carrier. If you're thinking of getting a job in media/journalism/PR, experience at the newspaper will be hugely beneficial.

I got my start at The East Carolinian at ECU in Greenville, NC. Started as a staff writer, then news editor, then managing editor. Had a great time. Went on to work at major and minor news outlets, including the Boston Herald.

Take care,
Dr. Matt
________________________________

We have three positions open right now. The Carrier editing staff will train and help anyone chosen. All are paid via the student work program.

News Editor

Generates story ideas, edits all news copy, assigns stories and graphics/photos, manages staff writers and designs and lays out news pages. This includes writing headlines and stories. The News Editor must make sure staff writers adhere to all deadlines. He/she is responsible for all News content and filling three pages with copy and art.

Assistant News Editor

Assist your editor in the duties detailed above and be familiar with your editor’s responsibilities. This includes writing headlines and stories. The Assistant News Editor will be responsible for attending all SGA meetings every week. While this representative will not vote on SGA policies, he/she will attend meetings as an objective witness and report back to the editorial board with any newsworthy notes. Responsible for assisting with editing copy for section, designing and laying out pages, and assigning story/graphics/photo requests.

Assistant Section Editor - Features

Assist your editor in the duties detailed below and be familiar with your editor’s responsibilities. This includes writing headlines and stories. He/she will also discuss topics and ideas with the Features Editor in order to generate possible story and package topics. Responsible for assisting with editing copy for section, designing and laying out pages, and assigning story/graphics/photo requests.

Just have the students contact me or Megan Reed for more information about these. Email or phone is fine. 

Or better yet they should just come to our weekly meeting to see us and check it out. We meet every Monday in LAU 113 at 4:45 p.m. We would be happy to talk with them there before or after the meeting in more detail.

Kevin Kleine, Carrier Advisor - 706-767-1831

Megan Reed, Carrier Editor - 678-602-7683

For Thursday, March 19 and Friday, March 20

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/myanmar-court-jails-insulting-buddhism-150317063346508.html

http://rt.com/usa/241221-nypd-confirm-garner-wikipedia/

http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/middleeast/2015/03/wont-read-piece-syria-isil-iraq-isis-150317125900133.html     

Remember this guy?
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/03/17/aaron-schock-facing-questions-on-spending-announces-resignation/?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=geo&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&_r=0

http://www.aboutforsyth.net/v3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7875

For Tuesday, March 17 and Wednesday, March 18

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/03/millennials-say-keeping-up-with-the-news-is-important-to-them-but-good-luck-getting-them-to-pay-for-it/

http://rt.com/news/241009-flying-car-aeromobil-vehicle/

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21646220-it-depends-what-you-study-not-where

http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/03/14/392632777/new-dads-in-togo-are-guaranteed-something-that-u-s-dads-arent

http://www.ajc.com/news/sports/college/georgia-state-coach-tears-achilles-celebrating-tri/nkXLB/

For Thursday, March 5, and Friday, March 6

Exams so, no articles to read.

Instead this:





Com 250 students, check the homework page for link to online exam Friday morning.

For March 3 (Tuesday) and March 4 (Wednesday)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/private-police-carry-guns-and-make-arrests-and-their-ranks-are-swelling/2015/02/28/29f6e02e-8f79-11e4-a900-9960214d4cd7_story.html?tid=sm_tw
http://boingboing.net/2015/03/02/mans-bad-wooden-hov-lane-dum.html

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/jail-prison-video-visitation

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/03/02/snl-spoofs-isis-in-controversial-sketch/

http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/news/police_fire/man-charged-with-stealing-police-officer-s-pistol/article_405c5c8c-c0a1-11e4-a2fe-4f1c089c010d.html

For Thursday, Feb. 26 and Friday, Feb. 27

http://newsfeed.gawker.com/pharmacist-shoots-and-kills-masked-thief-holding-store-1687423565?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

From The Economist magazine. They write an obituary every week. Always worth reading.
http://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21644124-michele-ferrero-italys-chocolate-king-died-valentines-day-aged-89-sweet-secrets?fsrc=scn/fb/te/pe/ed/sweetsecrets

http://mashable.com/2015/02/24/how-much-do-flight-attendants-make/#:eyJzIjoidCIsImkiOiJfeGQ5enI2OXlkOHFscW93dyJ9

Using Instagram for investigative journalism
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e2f1f52c3eb34caca7d74e5bf90f27f9/lawmaker-lavish-decor-billed-private-planes-concerts

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/25/us/georgia-execution-kelly-renee-gissendaner/index.html

For Tuesday, Feb. 24 and Wednesday, Feb. 25

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/02/risen-obama-admin-is-greatest-enemy-of-press-freedom-202707.html

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/02/20/fast-food-breakfast-sandwiches-taste-test/21144956/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/secrecy-around-police-surveillance-equipment-proves-a-cases-undoing/2015/02/22/ce72308a-b7ac-11e4-aa05-1ce812b3fdd2_story.html?hpid=z1

http://news.yahoo.com/baghdads-first-female-mayor-set-reins-143942570.html

http://nypost.com/2015/02/22/apples-titan-car-could-reshape-the-auto-world/

For Thursday, Feb. 19 and Friday, Feb. 20

http://rt.com/usa/233255-krispy-kreme-kkk-promotion/

Just 38 seconds long:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=520798394728339&fref=nf

http://t.co/pZTWvLQLP4

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2015/02/16/Saudi-cleric-Sun-revolves-around-stationary-Earth.html

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/150213/what-the-world-thinks-about-the-shooting-three-0

For Tuesday, Feb. 17th

Remember no class on Wednesday, Feb. 18th

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/02/12/facebook-policy-change-allows-one-final-post-after-death/23184757/

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/world/middleeast/saudi-women-free-after-73-days-in-jail-for-driving.html?_r=1

http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/news/local/sheriff-one-of-few-who-can-force-review-of-county/article_1a3efb72-b345-11e4-bfcf-bb21ff9c8b7d.html

http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/26435617/article-Out-of-the-ashes--Marietta-family-loses-everything-after-fire?instance=home_lead_story

David Carr, Times Critic and Champion of Media, Dies at 58 http://nyti.ms/1uLWwDG

For Thursday, Feb. 12 and Friday, Feb. 13

http://www.wsvn.com/story/28072437/florida-lawyer-sparks-debate-about-rights-at-dui-checkpoints

https://news.vice.com/article/three-muslim-students-shot-dead-in-north-carolina

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/us/eddie-ray-routh-on-trial-in-chris-kyle-murder.html?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytimes

http://www.newsobserver.com/2015/02/10/4545775_three-people-shot-dead-in-chapel.html?rh=1

(Watch the video - 7 mins)
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-collectors-beekeeper-honeybees/

For Tuesday, Feb. 10 and Wednesday, Feb. 11

http://nyti.ms/1zJ8FZa

http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/06/smallbusiness/nannies-by-noa/index.html

Listen to audio and read story:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/02/08/384332798/civil-rights-attorneys-sue-ferguson-over-debtors-prisons

http://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner/spacex-set-to-launch-sun-monitoring-observatory-into-deep-sp#.bs6MXrzlJ

Why is this breaking news?
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/georgia-has-its-first-confirmed-case-of-measles-si/nj7Kp/?ecmp=ajc_social_twitter_2014_sfp

For Thursday, Feb. 5 and Friday Feb. 6

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/30/news/companies/nfl-taxpayers/index.html?iid=obnetwork

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/hes-got-a-downton-abbey-inspired-office-but-rep-aaron-schock-wont-talk-about-it/2015/02/02/1d3f1466-ab1f-11e4-abe8-e1ef60ca26de_story.html?postshare=1641422970804760

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/new-york-attorney-general-targets-supplements-at-major-retailers/?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2015/02/03/two-irish-guys-sneaked-into-the-super-bowl-without-tickets-and-snagged-25000-seats/?tid=sm_fb

Please tweet me stories you find interesting:

Michael Shaw ‏@MichaelRyanShaw  3h3 hours ago

http://nyti.ms/1yBwgZ7 

For Tuesday, Feb. 3 and Wednesday, Feb. 4

http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/02/media/inside-nationwide-ad-making/index.html

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/02/02/super-pac-facing-charges-for-negative-mailer-challenges-state-law-barring-campaign-lies/vmUwROwzw2PK2Dup6PhrWN/story.html?event=event25

Note that this is a British newspaper:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/30/texas-executes-robert-ladd-intellectually-disabled-prisoner
Article came from student via Twitter #BerryCom. Please add your own tweets for articles you think are worthy of distribution.

Watch video & read story:
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2015/02/01/james-roberston-detroiter-commute-fundraiser/22701087/

http://www.buzzfeed.com/kimberleydadds/katy-perry-got-a-tattoo-to-mark-her-superbowl-appe#.eh2RXPVlZ

For Thursday, January 29 & Friday, January 30

Upon reflection, I'm going to continue sending this email out on Mondays and Wednesdays only. So, we just won't have any pop quizzes in Monday classes. 


There's a huge unsupported fact in the lede of this article (see if you can find it):
http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/news/local/father-gunned-down-in-south-rome-no-motive-available-from/article_3c501840-a6b1-11e4-ba0c-ebb2ec6e1795.html

Read this article closely. How is Georgia different than the rest of the nation:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/28/ga-killer-executed-despite-claim-he-was-intellectually-disabled/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/01/28/make-no-mistake-michelle-obama-just-made-a-bold-political-statement-in-saudi-arabia/?tid=sm_tw

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/telfair-county-store-owner-says-cobb-couple-stoppe/njyNw/

http://news.yahoo.com/tight-lipped-lynch-steals-show-media-day-001155653--nfl.html

For Tuesday, Jan 27 and Wednesday, Jan. 28

From a former student now working in Redding, Calif.:
http://www.redding.com/news/local-news/cracking-the-shasta-county-escalator-myth_01820959

http://abcnews.go.com/US/man-ticket-driving-eating-cheeseburger/story?id=28326114

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-harassing-and-imprisoning-chinese-working-for-foreign-news-outlets/2015/01/21/3941bdc8-a0e6-11e4-91fc-7dff95a14458_story.html?postshare=6421421920744085

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/01/24/2-atlanta-flights-receive-bomb-threats/22278611/
--> (follow up for discussion in class) http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/01/27/twitter-threats-to-flights/22395967/

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/technology/why-apps-for-messaging-are-trending.html?smid=tw-share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guGvV8LCx7o

Check out this website. Come to class with a story idea worth exploring: http://journalistsresource.org/

For Wednesday, Jan. 21 & Thursday, Jan. 22

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/world/middleeast/pentagon-will-send-trainers-to-aid-some-syrian-rebels.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/is-hollywood-on-a-dystopian-movie-binge/
(pay attention to how journalist got his "data")

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/world/caning-of-saudi-blogger-is-delayed-amid-protests.html?_r=0&referrer

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/01/14/mcdonalds-signs-ad-causes-a-stir/21742137/

http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/news/local/rome-men-now-face-domestic-terrorism-charge/article_9c2bd03e-9512-11e4-bbb8-b73fb9e6e225.html

For January 16, 2015

New news outlet: 
http://www.vox.com/2015/1/11/7527697/ahmed-malek-merabet-eulogy-charlie-hebdo
(Note the embedded links -- be ready to talk about those.)

 Is this journalism? https://storify.com/tometty/staunch-defenders-of-free-press-attend-solidarity

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/saudi-whipping

http://www.myajc.com/news/news/state-regional/blacks-whites-starkly-divided-on-police-conduct-po/njmY2/

http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/news/local/former-miami-dolphins-player-swims-9-miles-after-f/njmgW/

Fall 2014 students, feel free to unsubscribe

Just a heads up -- I'm about to fire up this blog again. So, you may want to unsubscribe from this feed. (Should be an unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.) Unless you just want to keep up with the latest events and cool journalism!

As a parting gift, let me leave you with a fun video:

THERE IS NO VIDEO -- AND NOBODY EVEN MENTIONED IT! Bummer.


 Have a great semester!