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Thursday, 09 September 2010 10:16 |
 New Anchors Named for FAMU’s News 20 at Five Fall 2010 Season
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Three new anchors have been selected for Florida A&M University (FAMU) TV-20’s live newscast. The weather anchor is Kara Alli, a senior broadcast journalism student from Miami, Fla. and Marsha Buchanan, a senior broadcast journalism student from Orlando, Fla., will serve as the sports anchor. Tiffany Lewis, a senior broadcast journalism student from Chicago, Ill., will fill the main news anchor chair.
“I look forward to working with such talented and enthusiastic students and faculty,” said Lewis.
The live newscasts will air at 5 p.m. from Monday through Thursday beginning Monday, September 13. Students from the Advanced TV News class will also produce “Week in Review” shows airing Fridays at 7 p.m.
Alli has held internships at local news stations and plans to pursue a job as an investigative reporter or news producer after college.
“Having served as a news anchor for my high school television station, I am excited about this latest venture as an anchor for FAMU-TV 20,” said Alli.
Buchanan recently worked as an intern for ESPN in Bristol, Conn.
“It was there that I really honed in on my strange curiosity and fascination for sports,” said Buchanan.
This semester, broadcast journalism students will also produce a “Homecoming Special,” as well as a “Mid-term Election Special,” under the direction of broadcast sequence coordinator Kenneth Jones and assistant professor Leonard Horton, news director for News 20 at Five.
“Because of technology, the walls separating radio, print, television and graphics are disappearing,” said Horton. “Our efforts in the broadcast sequence will continue to focus on the changing trends in our field. Now, more than ever, students have to know a little bit about everything.”
A host of student volunteers will serve in various production roles with News 20 at Five under the leadership of technical director Michael Walker and members of the FAMU-TV 20 staff.
FAMU-TV 20 is an educational access channel operated by FAMU’s School of Journalism and Graphic Communication. It reaches more than 80,000 households via Comcast.
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Written by Harry E. Johnson
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 10:14 |
President and CEO
Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc.
(BLACK PR WIRE) When the Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation first sent out our design competition packages to well over 2500 entrants, we received 1700 submissions from over 52 countries. Students, artists, architects and individuals submitted their ideas about what the Memorial honoring the life and legacy of Dr. King, should look like.
With the support from not just those in this country but from the broad base of those around the world who supported Dr. King's vision, this Memorial took on an international appeal. We are proud that Dr. King's message of Democracy, Justice, Hope and Love transcended not only racial barriers but also international barriers.
When we selected the team to build this Memorial we were proud it reflected such a diverse group of individuals and companies. Those selected include women and minority-owned businesses, union and non-union workers as well as a small team of artisans from China.
We are proud of the fact that we have been inclusive of workers from all walks of life-- as Dr. King would have wanted in espousing his message of not judging a person by the color of their skin…but by the content of their character. While 95% of the work is being done by American workers, we strongly believe that we should not exclude anyone from working on this project simply because of their religious beliefs, social background or country of origin.
We believe also that this should be the Memorial that the people truly built. Therefore, we have solicited donations not just from corporations but indeed from everyday people who believed in a man who had a vision for justice and equality for all.
I call upon all who believe as I do that while we would like to claim Dr. King as the prized possession of the African American community, or a prized possession of the United States….he was much more, he belongs to the world. This fact could not be more evident than Dr. King's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway in 1964.
America is a better place, indeed the world is a better place because of the vision of this one man.
When the memorial is completed by workers of all genders, hues and religious beliefs, people from all over the world will visit it with pride knowing that Dr. King’s vision included all people.
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 10:07 |
In a move rarely seen since the high-tech world of cell phones,
texting, email, and broadband Internet hit classrooms across the
country, one school in Connecticut has announced it will hold a
four-day moratorium on the use of technology every Tuesday in
September.
The idea for the moratorium, dubbed “No-Tech Tuesdays” by the head of school at Hyde School in Woodstock, Connecticut, materialized after a campus-wide meeting where students and faculty discussed the strengths and obstacles technology provides to those who use it. One common pitfall expressed was the decline of face-to-face interaction as a result of choosing electronic messaging over any other form of communication. Suspending use of technology on “No-Tech Tuesdays” is one way the school hopes to encourage face-to-face connectedness and sharpen social skills.
“So much has changed in a very short time with regard to personal
use of technology,” says Hyde Head of School Laura Gauld. “In the
past 10 years, we've seen a surge of technology, ultra
connectivity...anyplace, anywhere...and while most of its effects have
been positive, some are not so positive.”
Gauld and her colleagues, who teach teenagers between the ages of 14
and 19, see firsthand how technology has also paradoxically resulted
in isolation for many young people, often turning them away from
meaningful relationships with their families, friends, and peers. And,
while many schools ban the use of cell phones and text messaging,
including Hyde School, Gauld contends that those who think the battle
to control it should be fought only by setting limits are swimming
against the tide.
As the demand for technology rises and changes faster than pressing
the ‘send’ button, more and more studies are being conducted that
point to it as a major distraction in today’s classrooms.
The Pew ‘Internet and American Life Project’ offers at least one
research result in this area:
– The average teenager sends about 50 text messages a day while at
school, despite the fact that most schools ban text messaging.
Yet, technology is here to stay.
“We’re talking about and tackling this as a community,” says
Gauld. “It takes a high level of awareness and fortitude to
recognize the common traps we all can fall into with regard to the use
of technology because it is a tool that is helpful and fun, to step
back and be able to identify what isn’t so great about it—and then
do something about it.”
The Hyde Organization is a network of public and private college
preparatory schools in Maine, Connecticut, New York and Washington D.C. focused on character and leadership development. Gauld sees the
Woodstock school’s recent discussion about the use of technology as
a “perfect teaching opportunity” to inspire principles and values
in students—and the adults who teach them—by taking an honest look
at how they handle this tool.
“As with everything else, our relationship with technology is
related to our character, principles and the choices we make,” says
Gauld. “We all find ways to bend the rules, but if we understand how
things are directly impacting our lives—negatively and
positively—we’re more likely to do the thing that brings us out on
top.”
At the end of the month, the school will meet to assess the results of
the ‘No-tech Tuesday’ experiment.
For more on ‘No-tech Tuesdays’ and Hyde Schools,
contact Rose Mulligan at (207) 443-7379 or by email at
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, or visit Hyde.edu.
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