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Ghana: Journalism - the Beauty And the Beast
I am nearly through a good book on the history of British journalism by the accomplished editor of the BBC, Andrew Marr. So far, it's been a brilliant account of a refreshing mixture of beautiful and ugly tales, with sharp vignettes of eccentric characters who have survived the topsy-turvy world of western journalism. Like ours, British journalism has struggled through periods of near perdition to an age where the profession was merely tolerated as a necessary nuisance. Even as a respected and the most revered press the world over, Marr notes: "regular doses of hype, sloppy reporting and uncorrected mistakes have long marked British newspapers, despite the attempts by the best of them to use reader's ombudsman and the regular corrections to improve their standing." .
TalentPen and Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund Connect Diverse ...
Recruiting system matches hundreds of outstanding African-American students with Fortune 500 businesses to fill key management positions. Pleasant Prairie, WI (PRWEB) December 13, 2006 -- Hundreds of leading African-American students were recently connected with recruiting executives from 60 prominent companies, including Wal-Mart, Bank of America, AT&T and Nike, thanks to a partnership between the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF) and TalentPen, a candidate collection and personality matching system. .
STANLEY NEWMAN: TRIVIA BITS: 'Court' star was cut above narrator
LONG BEFORE HE became a star on TV's "Night Court," John Larroquette was heard as the (uncredited) narrator in the 1974 film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." When the film was remade in 2003, Larroquette returned as narrator. This time, his role was credited. • Shaggy dog story: Nana, the Darling family dog in James M. Barrie's "Peter Pan," is a Newfoundland. But in film and cartoon adaptations of the story, the dog seems to have always been portrayed as a Saint Bernard. If you know why, please let us know. • CNN anchor Paula Zahn is an accomplished cellist. She played at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall in a 1992 concert with the New York Pops Orchestra, and attended college on a music scholarship. • People who "get what's coming to them" get their "just deserts," not their "just desserts," as many think.
Foundation announces essay contest
The New York Press Association Foundation is sponsoring a First Amendment essay contest for 11th- and 12th-grade high school students in New York state. Designed to foster knowledge and understanding of the First Amendment, the statewide competition offers entrants the chance to win a first-place $10,000 college scholarship, $250 second-place, or $100 third-place prize. The tiered contest requires entrants to submit an essay (maximum 500 words) to their local, participating weekly, daily, or monthly newspaper. First-place winners at the local level will have their essays printed in their local newspaper and each newspaper will then forward the winner's essay and cover application for entry into the statewide competition. Press Association Foundation board members and staff will select the statewide winners.
Teens flying high following graduation
LIVERMORE The future is up in the air for Livermore High School seniors Michael Hollis and Samantha Ringhand. It's not that the two don't have plans for after graduation. But in addition to working and preparing for college, the 17-year-olds, through a new all-expenses-paid scholarship, will spend the summer learning a skill most only dream of. They will learn to fly. "It's something so different," Ringhand said Wednesday after taking the controls during takeoff and landing for the first time on a short flight around Livermore Municipal Airport. She had planned on working somewhere this summer while looking for scholarships. Last summer, the Livermore native took a demonstration flight at the school and was able to touch the controls a bit. No one else in her family flies, and her dad says he feels safer on the ground.
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