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Letter from J.J. Jenkins, next year’s editor-in-chief
This isn’t the death of the Daily; it’s a rebirth. Starting in the fall, Mustang Daily will begin to print twice a week.
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Miscommunication Daily
Journalism has a problem. It’s not the lack of money (though that does definitely exist). It’s not that technology is changing media (though, again, this is also true). It’s that in general, nobody understands what we do, not even us at times. Some more cynical people’s understanding of journalism involves sneaky reporters interviewing good, honest, hardworking […]
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iJournalist, hear me text
Looking around the newsroom today I noticed something: every Mustang Daily nightly staff member has an iPhone, except me. How this happened, I have no clue. One day I’m sitting around and everyone has all their different non-smart phone cells out, and the next everyone is playing Scramble with Friends. With the shiny white phones […]
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It's no wonder I live on coffee
Just a note: This was written before Thanksgiving break because I’m a bit of a slacker some weeks, so enjoy the pre-holiday stress 🙂 I failed to write a blog last week (and the week before) for the very same topic I’m writing about this week: being a student AND a Mustang Daily employee is […]
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Mustang Daily goes to Florida
Last week, the managing editor and I, accompanied by our advertising coordinator Stephanie Murawski, traveled to Orlando for the ACP/CMA National College Media Convention. Here we learned about some awesome design, inventive reporting and a couple of new ways to manage a newsroom, all while still managing to take a break from midterms and chill […]
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Who you gonna call?
Alpha phi. Yes, we’re all talking about it (or at least those of you who managed to get ahold of a newspaper today before they all disappeared). The school starts an official investigation into a freshman female going to the hospital with alcohol poisoning, and suddenly, Cal Poly greek life gets massively talkative on the […]
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Comments welcome
OK, so it’s amazingly ironic that in my last blog post about mistakes, I had the unfortunate luck to have written “countries” instead of “country’s.” And thank you to the commenter who mentioned it. I actually do appreciate it when our mistakes are pointed out because, unfortunately, sometimes that is the only way we learn. […]
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miSt@kes happpen … but we fix them
So I’m not the best blogger in the world. Actually, I’ve never really blogged before this exact moment, so sitting down to write this is a little daunting. First off, I’d like to say, “Hi” to everybody (and anybody) reading this. Thank you for being the kind of reader who spends time on our website, […]