Former Chief of Staff to the First Lady Anita McBride joined our class via C-SPAN to discuss her work in the White House. Checkout some background information about McBride here and her work as a contributor at The Daily Beast. She is currently a professor at American University. As a veteran of three administrations, McBride […]
April 2011
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April 14, 2011
Video Conference Story #2: Anita McBride
Posted by Erin under Assignments | Tags: Anita McBride, Bush administration, C-SPAN, Chief of staff to the first lady, First Lady, Laura Bush, Office of the First Lady |No Comments
April 12, 2011
Tech Blog #14 (Extra Credit): Guest Speaker Mark Stencel
Posted by Erin under Tech Blog | Tags: Mark Stencel, National Public Radio, NPR, Royal Wedding |No Comments
Mark Stencel, Managing Editor for Digital News at National Public Radio, spoke to our class today about the challenges radio faces in the media today. Stencel first started working in online journalism back in 1991, when it was called “new media.” Check out his personal Twitter and his NPR bio. Stencel says that NPR has […]
April 7, 2011
Video Conference Story #3 (Extra Credit): Andy Card
Posted by Erin under Assignments | Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan, Africa, Andy Card, Bush administration, C-SPAN, George Bush, George Mason University, George W. Bush |No Comments
Former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card joined students from George Mason University in a C-SPAN video conference to discuss his political career. For more information on Card, check out his background here. Card began by explaining his relationship with the Bush family. He met George Bush Sr. at the height of the Watergate […]
April 5, 2011
Tech Blog #13 (Extra Credit): Guest Speaker Brad Kalbfeld
Posted by Erin under Tech Blog | Tags: AP Broadcast Style Book, Brad Kalbfeld, citizen journalist, iPhone, MacBook Pro |No Comments
Brad Kalbfeld, AP journalist and author of the Associated Press Broadcast Style Book, joined our class today to talk about the historical aspects of journalism and how it has changed/evolved in today’s world. Check out his Bio here. Kalbfeld showed us what a laptop and cassette player looked like from the 1980s — very bulky […]
