Journalism students at the University of Nevada, Reno, used to find me forbidding and intimidating. It’s as if I were one of those newspaper city editors of yesteryear: crusty, brusque and mean. One such city editor was Charles Chapin of the New York Evening World in the late 19th century. He boasted that he had fired 108 reporters, including the son of the great Joseph … [Read more...]
THUMBS UP THUMBS DOWN
THUMBS DOWN to the University of Nevada, Reno for its publicity gimmick to attract a student from Vermont. Other media outlets jumped on this cute little feature story about the university’s advertising campaign in Vermont. UNR, which has students from the District of Columbia and all the states except Vermont, apparently is desperate to complete the list by getting that … [Read more...]