About BJF
The Building the J-Future blog is run by UPIU. The goal of the blog is to inform, teach and connect student journalists around the globe. The content of the blog will include interviews, audio, video and screen-casts and how-to documents. We’ll post tips from experienced journalists, new media experts, and fellow students on how to be a better journalist online and off.
Our goal at UPIU and on this blog is to work with students to create the journalists of tomorrow.
About the Author
Aram Zucker-Scharff was most recently hired as the New Media Manager for UPI’s initiative for journalism schools and students, UPIU. His expertise lies in transmedia and finding areas where narratives and communities can be enriched by creative technology use.
Zucker-Scharff also holds the position of Technology Manager for The Office of Student Media at George Mason University where he is continually testing and using new technology. He has launched three major projects at GMU and is responsible for finding technological solutions to improve the media outlets run out of the office.
As a student blogger for United Press International University’s Voice of Young Voters feature, he crafted in-depth coverage of the Obama administration’s economic plans and decisions during their transitional period with value-added social media. During this period he also covered the Israeli Embassy’s Twitter-based citizen’s press conference.
Zucker-Scharff was responsible for the production of a print newspaper while he was managing editor at Broadside. In his position of copy chief at the student newspaper Broadside and student magazine VoxPop, he worked with numerous student writers to produce high quality journalism.
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