TEACHER’S PEST

Yesterday, Defense Tech pal Adam Penenberg was reck­less enough to invite me down to his busi­ness and eco­nom­ics report­ing class at NYU’s jour­nal­ism depart­ment. I blabbed for a while about my adven­tures in blog­ging, and about the man­i­fold ways I had man­aged to piss my edi­tors, read­ers, and fel­low writ­ers off.
Miraculously, all of the dozen-​​or-​​so the stu­dents were able to stay awake through the blather (although for a young woman sit­ting to my right, it seemed like a pretty seri­ous strug­gle). Even more remark­able were the ques­tions the stu­dents asked: BS-​​free queries about how a writer devel­ops a beat, finds mate­r­ial, and maybe even makes a few bucks in the process.
Adam has the class group-​​blogging right now. And the results are pretty impres­sive — about a thou­sand times bet­ter than the dri­vel I tried to pass off as jour­nal­ism in col­lege. Go give ‘em a click.

February 9th, 2005 | Blog Bidness | Comments Off Both comments and pings are currently closed.