Required reading

http://www.collegemediainnovation.org/blog/2008/03/27/journalism-school-graduates-how-to-increase-your-chance-of-finding-a-job-and-decrease-your-chance-of-having-to-vent-on-angryjournalistcom/#comment-220435

Please visit this site, read it and tell me what you think with a post below...

Travel Writing with Flair

Just because you are going somewhere for Spring Break doesn't mean you will have a great story to tell - on the other hand - just because you are not going anyhwere doesn't prevent you from telling a good story.

Read these to get some ideas:
http://www.worldhum.com/dispatches/item/the_art_of_writing_a_story_about_walking_across_andorra_20051228/

Travel and Travel writing tips:
http://www.lauriegough.com/passions.html

Read these tips for setting up interviews in different cities (hint do it before you leave):
http://www.rolfpotts.com/writers/fullwood.html

Arts Criticism

Read this: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-schickel20may20,1,7842832.story?coll=la-news-comment


Then post an example of what you think is a well-written review and read and comment on another class member's post.

Blog guidelines

You are encouraged to comment on posts, but keep in mind that the same guidelines that apply to classtime behavior obviously apply here as well.

This is a test

This is a test assignment for my University of Tulsa Feature Writing Class...students please respond to this post so I know you have access to this.

Please post one interesting article you read this week in your response. Also read this Columbia Journalism Review article about science reporting and blogs.