How safe are you on The Oval? Footbridge Forum tackles issues related to campus security on its call-in radio conversation.

Prof. Venema steps down at UM
After 10 years of innovative teaching at the Journalism School, Prof. Sheri Venema has stepped down to join her husband on a new adventure in Maryland.

Lights? Cameras? Action!
Print journalists at UM took up video cameras recently for a Saturday session on multimedia skills building. Taught by members of the broadcast faculty, the session covered the basics of video and non-linear editing for print students with little or no experience with the equipment. In one day, the students went from finding the on-switch on the cameras to posting a short work online.

Broadcast major Eddie Haver took the lead to create a multi-media account of the print student’s learning curve.  Photo major Eric Connolly and print major provided still photographs to complement Haver’s audio and video.

Picking a Pollner
It takes a special kind of journalist to parachute into a J-school and
kindle the fire in students' bellies, but that's what Pollner professors do.

Photojournalism students take to the Web
to show they can do it all.

Reporting basics essential,
online news guru Dave Kansas says
Dave Kansas, who helped start TheStreet.com in 1996, is starting up a new venture aimed at offering younger readers financial news and advice. He was in Missoula recently to discuss the project, known as FiLife.com.

Climate change coverage: When balanced may not be fair
Journalism errs when the shrinking ranks of climate change skeptics are given equal play in stories about the science of global warming, a UM panel of reporters and media scholars said recently.

Online News Staff