Not Us at USF

A comment from Daily Kos:

Part of that challenge is the dead weight of old-school journalism professors, secure in tenure, railing against newfangled technologies and those crazy kids who are destroying their utopian, long-extinct view of what journalism should really look like.

Another Les Shu Update

I've recently accepted a position as a staff editor with
Computer Shopper magazine. I will be getting experience working on the
Web. I'm also continuing my freelance career, working with pubs such
as Best Life and Men's Journal. Pick up the November issue of Best
Life and I have a short piece in there.

Some Sample Work from Feature Writing

I call it Six Ways of Looking at an Elevator.

Testing, testing, 1...2...3...

Just testing to see if I can post on the USF blog! :)

Lindsay Martell in Beautiful Sante Fe

First, she says hello, asks how we doing, etc. and then *down to business*:


After a stint as a local news reporter in Salinas, CA, I relocated to Santa Fe, NM, to pursue freelance reporting and producing. I was an on-air contributor on Fashion Television's "Shop the World", and I just snagged a gig as host of "Buzzed into the 505", a weekly segment airing on the the WB's nationally syndicated morning show, "The Daily Buzz."



On the producing front, I recently wrapped a short documentary on the collaboration of C.S. Tarpley, a glassblower, and potter Nathan Youngblood. It is slated to be featured at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in January, and is currently being shown at Kiva Gallery in Santa Fe.

Dee-Jade Chock Might Enjoy an Encouraging Word

Dee-Jade Chock is a 2000 USF Media Studies grad with an emphasis in journalism, who worked on our short-lived university magazine back in the day and whose expertise in QuarkXpress led me to bring her back as Quark coach for several copy editing classes. She was a good student and a better person -- and she really was a good student, so you get my point.

She's been fighting cancer since her since her first year at USF, and right now the prognosis is pretty tough. If any of you want to send an encouraging word or share a memory, I'll be glad to forward any messages.

A Toan Lam Update and Recommendation

Friends, family and colleagues,

Great news! Along with my reporting duties w/ Pacific Fusion, a nationally and internationally syndicated show (also on ImaginAsian TV), that focuses on the flair of Asian-American lifestyles; food, fashion, people stories, I recently joined a show, Medium Rare, as a host, reporter and on-line critic, that acknowledges women and people of color in film and TV. It's broadcast on local cable in New York, San Francisco and Berkeley--see RareMedia.org for showtimes and such). We're trying to get it syndicated so that we can continue our steadfast mission: To set up a platform for such artists to showcase their work.

Some of the greatest rewards from my profession as a magazine show host/reporter/journalist is that I get to meet such fascinating people with real stories to tell and real talent. Many times, they are not stories that we see in mainstream media, which tend to fill our heads and lives with skewed images of a reality that many of us are not privy to and frankly doesn't accurately represent who we are as Americans.

With that said, it is with great pride that I send this mass e-mail (about) two dynamic, talented women, "Red Doors" Director, Georgia Lee, and Actor/Co-Producer, Mia Riverton, whom I befriended at the San Francisco Asian Film Festival this year. Red Doors is scheduled to be released theatrically across the US on SEPTEMBER 8TH (in New York and on September 22 in San Francisco.) This story is sure to touch you, regardless of your age, gender, sexual preference, race etc. It's a story with universal meaning. I've watched it 3 times, so please make sure to catch it and e-mail all your friends.

Good luck Mia, Georgia and the rest of the Red Doors gang! Please contact me about getting the word out on Medium Rare!


See you at the silver screen!

Cheers!

Toan Lam

Like the Prophets of Old, George Sanchez Heads for the Desert

Where he'll be lead reporter on The Arizona Daily Star's education team, covering Tucson Unified School District 1 as well as writing about education policy and procedure across the city. George says the paper wanted someone who can produce plenty of enterprise stories.

The Daily Star has a circulation of more than a hundred thousand, about three times that of the Monterey Herald. George says he's following my advice: "Go as high as you can as fast as you can, burnout, and then go live in the woods."

That was actually a joke.

But this is no joke: Congratulations, George!

introductions: david silver

hello!

my name is david silver. beginning in fall, i will be an assistant professor of media studies at the university of san francisco. before USF, i was an assistant professor of communication at the university of washington and before that i taught for a year at georgetown university. my interests and obsessions usually revolve around new media, especially when it's used in creative ways.

i blog at silver in sf. back in the day, i blogged at silver in seattle.

for me, it's quite exciting to tap into the journalism / media studies community here at USF and i'm thrilled that we can use this blog to talk, swap ideas, gossip, play, and network.

oh, and if you're on campus these days, please visit the fifth floor of the university center and say hello.

Update from Jessica Dryden-Cook

Just wanted to let everyone know where I am and what I am up to. I look forward to participating in this blog! Let's meet up for drinks and talk about the old days of media...and more important, the future of it all.

Jessica Dryden-Cook
Copywriter, Webshots, CNET Networks
415.344.2127
jessica.drydencook@cnet.com
www.webshots.com

And don't forget that other thing.