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Want to try Storify? Check out one student’s work
ShareHave you tried Storify? The innovative storytelling tool lets you collect online bits and pieces and puzzle them together in a timeline that reveals how news is reported via social media and traditional news outlets. Sound confusing? It’s not. In … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media, Storify, Tips, UPIU users
Tagged journalism, Storify, student, UPIU
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$1,000 could be yours!
It’s almost time – just one week to the Sept. 26 deadline to pitch a story for our $1,000 reporting grant. Check out all the details, and good luck! Continue reading
Posted in Journalism contest, UPIU Special Projects
Tagged contest, grant, journalism, reporting, student
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Getting the right information: How to FOIA
Tips on Freedom of Information Act requests from UPIU’s mentoring team of professional journalists. Continue reading
A day in the life: Reporting from the United Nations!
Alexia Shaffer, a senior journalism student at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash. is spending her summer reporting from Geneva, Switzerland where she is stationed at the United Nations. She’s already earned two UPI.com bylines (one story on human rights in Rwanda, and another on poverty statistics.) We asked this student journalist what she loves about journalism, her experience reporting abroad and how she snagged such a cool summer gig! Continue reading
Posted in International Journalism, UPIU users
Tagged Alexia Shaffer, Geneva, international, journalism, student, United Nations
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