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ScrippsStudentSpotlight

The latest DIY tips, celebrity

gossip and newest apps are

available literally at the fin-

gertips of smart phone users. This

is a generation where social media

sites such as Twitter and Facebook

have become the source of news for

current events both domestic and in-

ternational. In technology-infused

environments from the classroom to

the workplace where accessing in-

formation is easier than ever, manyAmericans still are tuning out im-

portant information in the media.

Americans now pay less attention

to international affairs and consume

less foreign news. Domestic news

continues to dominate new Ameri-

can media.

According to the Pew Research

Center for the People and the Press,

59 percent of Americans say they reg-

ularly watch the local news in their

area. This has decreased significant-ly from the more than three-quarters

of American who regularly watched

local news in the early 1990s, but

is largely unchanged from 2000.

“Our generation is so used to get-

ting things instantly, everything is

available in one click, and I think

that makes us less interested in taking

time to read and digest a traditional

news story when we can get the gist

in a 140-character Tweet instead,”

said Karah Finan, an OU junior study-

“Generation Y”Logs On,Tunes Out

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Kaylyn Hlavaty n Reporter

Kayla Hanley n Reporter

OU students pose with their Mark of Excellence awards during the 2011 regional SPJ convention.

Mark of Excellence winners are announced at the annual banquet.

The Ohio University chapter of the

Society of Professional Journalists

has been given the opportunity to

submit entries to the Mark of Excellence

awards free of charge. Each student who is

an SPJ member can submit two entries of their work and they will be reimbursed by

the JSchool for the entry fee.

The Mark of Excellence awards are

given annually by SPJ’s national chapter to

honor the best in student journalism. The

awards offer categories for print, radio,

television and online collegiate media. En-

tries are rst judged at the regional level.

Next, rst place regional winners advance

to the national competition and are recog-

nized at the SPJ spring conferences.

Mark of Excellence submissions are

due tomorrow evening, January 25, by

midnight. This is the rst year that the

JSchool is paying these fees. OU SPJ Pres-

ident Taylor Mirfendereski brought this to

attention.

“Every year we never have a turnoutof entries like we should with how nation-

ally known our program is,” said Mirfend-

ereski. “SPJ always has winners every year

and we understand that money is an issue

for college students. So by being allowed

to have two entries paid for, students are

given a tangible benet.”

Professor Robert Stewart, director of

the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism,

agreed on the terms Mirfendereski spoke

of.

“It helps us, as a school, to have a na-

Opportunity for ExcellenceStudents invited to submit media work



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Rachel Sayers n Reporter

SPJ Workshop teaches student journalistsimportance of online branding

A New Brand of Journalism

WThe age of journalism has

gone digital — at leastaccording to Ohio University

student Sarah Grothjan, who indicates

that students must find a way to brand

themselves online, or they take the risk

of going unnoticed.

Grothjan, a junior Carr Van Andamajor and Society of Professional

Journalists’ publicity chair, led an SPJ

workshop Monday highlighting the im-

portance of creating an online personal

presence.

“Everyone should at least buy their

own domain,” Grothjan advises. “Even

if they don’t use it right now, they’ll

want access to it in the future, if only

for SEO [Search Engine Optimization]

purposes.”

Her audience, a mixture of JSchool

students from different sequences, lis-tened intently as Grothjan guided them

through the steps of creating a web

page, designing the format and eventu-

ally getting it published.

The first step, according to Grothjan,

is to learn how to write basic HTML

code. She suggested using a program

such as Adobe Dreamweaver while

learning the basics of code writing.

The lines of code from Grothjan’s

demo web page presented a challenge

to the audience. HTML basics can seemdaunting to a beginning web designer.

Grothjan started from the beginning

and began explaining things in a funda-

mental manner.

“I realized that I thought I knew a lot

more than I actually did,” said Heather

Farr, a senior majoring in public rela-

tions. “But after

watching [Grothjan]explain the ‘basics,’ I know

I have a long way to go.”

The workshop, which lasted approx-

imately an hour, went on to show par-

ticipants a few of the most rudimentary

elements of web design. These included

inserting text, displaying photos and

adding tabs to the webpage.

Throughout her speech, Grothjan

stressed the importance of organization

while creating a design.

“You must label everything correctly,”

she said. “It’s very easy to get lost if you don’t add [titles] to everything.”

At the conclusion of her presenta-

tion, Grothjan stated the importance of

learning everything you can about web

design, pointing to the growing online-

based industry as confirmation.

The E.W. Scripps School of Journal-

ism is well aware of these trends. They

currently offer two courses on web de-

sign: VICO 361 and VICO 462. The

classes teach students the ins and outs

of creating and designing webpages, aswell as how to manage them once they

are up and running.

“Not a lot of students know these

sorts of skills,” Farr said. “It makes me

feel as if I have an edge on the compe-

tition. I’ll definitely be trying to learn

more.” v

tional visibility goal,” Stewart said.

“Being able to subsidize the entry

process is a way of increasing submis-sions as well as a way of telling stu-

dents, ‘You should join SPJ.’”

The first step in applying for the

Mark of Excellence awards is to be-

come a member of SPJ. A student can

do so online at spj.org and pay dues to

the national chapter as well as OU’s

$10 chapter dues. The Mark of Excel-

lence submission takes place at the

same website. Students can also sub-

mit a mail-in entry. The cost is nine

dollars for SPJ members and 18 for

non-members. However, the JSchool

will only reimburse a student if he orshe is an SPJ member.

First place regional winners ad-

vance to the national competition and

are recognized at SPJ spring confer-

ences. For the JSchool, regional win-

ners are invited to the spring banquet

and given a free ticket. Once their en-

tries are judged nationally, the JSchool

will give those national winners a

$100 check.

“Our organization is the most known

organization throughout the journal-

ism world. By applying for this award

you are not just a member of SPJ but aworldwide known journalist for how-

ever far your entries go,” Mirfenderes-

ki said. “Your potential employer will

know that you were given this award

and did the best that you could and

they will appreciate that.”

Last year, 59 individuals and teams

won nationally out of the 4,000 entries

received.

“If you win you stand out more,”

Mirfendereski said. v

Grothjan demonstrates the basics of coding.

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Name: Morgan

Sigrist

Year: SophomoreMajor: Magazine

Journalism

Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio

What organizations/publications areyou involved with?Students for Global Media and

Diversity and I blog for the

culture section of The Post. I am

also an International Institute of Journalism ambassador.

Favorite thing about Scripps?IIJ because I get the opportunity

to meet people in my eld.

What is your dream job?International Correspondant for

National Geographic or CNN.

If you could report in any country whatwould it be?South Africa, so that I can study

and report on human trafcking.

Favorite news outlet and why?CNN or National Geographic

because their reporting is the

least biased to me and I feel like

they are very well respected for

the work that they do.

What advice would you give to an aspiringjournalist?Find what facet of journalism

you like to do, and then nd

a club that tailors to your se-

quence. Get involved!

Q&ASpotlight -ing journalism and political science.

America is involved with many

countries because of trade, foreign

allies or war, but people focusing on

their own agenda tune out foreign

news. According to a 2004 Columbia

University Survey called “Americans

Are Tuning Out the World,” American

newspapers print less foreign news

now than in the 1980s. Foreign issues

are focused on war and terrorism,

but the number of news stories about

these issues is not rising.

Social media and foreign newsCollege students are more in tune

with social media networks such as

Twitter and Facebook. However, this

does not mean that their news con-

sumption is more frequent. Interna-

tional affairs are interconnected withour daily lives even if many students

do not think this news pertains to

them.

“I think

our generation

doesn’t pay atten-

tion to the news

because it’s bor-

ing. News pro-

grams don’t make

watching the news

appealing to theaudience,” said

Maggie Camp-

bell, an OU junior

studying commu-

nications.

There are many resources where

people can receive news. Media out-

lets such as NBC, The New York

Times and CNN all have websites and

apps for smartphones. The question is

why students don’t take the time to

read a headline or watch a clip from a

news story. There is a cost for knowl-edge, like the time and energy to ab-

sorb it and use it.

The Millennial generation has

spent much of its educational career

during a time of war. Some say that

students have become desensitized to

important issues such as war, poverty

or environmental concerns. One way

to get involved in domestic and glob-

al news is understanding how things

that happen on the other side of the

world are important to the lives, fami-

lies and job prospects of Americans.

“The sheer amount of informa-

tion in our lives is going up and up, so

people are so overwhelmed that they

self-select and will engage in some

sort of social network and ignore oth-

er,” said Marc Scarcelli, OU profes-

sor of international relations.

Social networking and media can

be used to exchange information in

an efficient and timely manner. So-

cial media is ideal for breaking news

events and uploading the story in a

matter of minutes. Sites like Twitter

allow people to share ideas or opin-

ions about topics in their community

or school.

Blogs are also useful because they

directly connect the audience to the

source. A columnist can post a sto-ry or commentary on a blog and the

reader can ask questions or provide

their own opin-

ion.

But social

media can also

have a detri-

mental effect

on how people

receive news

or find it. With

the amount of

blogs, web-

sites, com-

mentary and

online forums,

anyone can put

out “news” and there are some people

who think that information is accurate

and not biased.

However, media will always be

exchanged in a public forum. It is

up to the audience to decide what to

read and believe as accurate, recent

information. Despite the resources of social media sites and the availability

of news, Americans still remain cen-

tered around issues directly affecting

them.

“There is still plenty of a spoiled

and disconnected, apathetic, uninterested

trend in our society, but there is also that

counter movement of there is a lot more

going on in our world than I want to un-

derstand,” said Scarcelli.v

cont. from Page 1

Our generation is so usedto getting things instantly,everything is available in oneclick, and I think that makes usless interested in taking time toread and digest a traditionalnews story when we can getthe gist in a 140-character

Tweet instead.

— KARAH FINAN, junior

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ConnectingMusic toMediaJimmy Roller n Reporter

ACRN is Ohio University’s All Campus

Radio Network, but they are much more than just Internet radio. ACRN does everything from

previewing local shows to reviewing albums.

Their website, ACRN.com, is home not only

to their online radio stream, but also their edi-

torials. In the past ACRN has been able to gain

access to many big name bands, such as Blink

182, Manchester Orchestra and Heartless Bas-

tards. In their feature writing, ACRN tends to

focus on the local music scene.

“We are in Athens so we need to focus on

what is going on in Athens,” said Hannah Cook,

managing editor of ACRN.However, ACRN members strive to be more

than just a music organization on campus.

“ACRN is about nding your voice,” said

Cook. “We give students more chances to write

creatively. That is why we focus on feature sto-

ries.”

For those looking to get involved in music

journalism, ACRN offers much more than prac-

tical experience.

“I could not learn how to be a music journalist

in the classroom,” said Blogs Editor Cassie Whitt.

This is why ACRN tries to connect stu-

dents with internship opportunities, Cook said.ACRN has kept a close relationship with OU

alumni like Jillian Mapes, an editorial assistant

at Billboard. Melissa Burant, the ACRN copy

chief, was able to get two internships based on

the work she has done with ACRN.

Most of all, Cook, Whitt and Burant all said

they valued the personal and professional atmo-

sphere of the organization.

In addition to their daily radio programs,

ACRN hosts free events for the local and uni-

versity public. At 10 p.m. on January 26, the

Smiling Skull Saloon will convert into ACRN’sRock ‘N’ Roll Bingo night.

Just before Valentine’s day, ACRN mem-

bers will auction themselves off at the Date

Auction on February 10. ACRN also invited

bands like the She Bears, The Kyle Sowashes,

and Scubadog. All the proceeds from this event

go toward ACRN’s marquee event Lobster

Fest, a free music festival that is open to all and

held every spring.v

Inc. wants to help you be a leader in theonline journalism industry. Join the Inc. web team to fne tune your online skillsand work with a group o committed JSchoolers just like you. Contact Graylynand Emma at [email protected] ormore inormation!

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