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Dispatch from Golan Heights: UPIU grant winner reports
ShareWhile many j-students in the U.S. were celebrating Thanksgiving and others around the world were prepping for exams, Italy native Elena Roda was in Golan Heights, a slice of land wedged between Israel and Syria. Elena won UPIU’s first-ever reporting … Continue reading
Posted in International Journalism, students, UPIU Special Projects, UPIU users
Tagged activists, Arab spring, Assad, Elena Roda, Golan Heights, Israel, Syria, UPI, UPIU
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Meet our reporting grant winner!
Elena Roda, an Italian journalism student, won UPIU’s first $1,000 reporting grant. She shares about her project and how she got into journalism. Continue reading
Posted in Journalism contest, students, UPIU Special Projects
Tagged Elena Roda, Golan Heights, reporting grant, UPI, UPIU
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Make your readers squirm: It could earn you a UPI byline
Journalists’ personal interests can often drive their best story ideas. A love of tatoos sent student reporter Julia Bodwell trolling through the underground world of body modification for her next story idea. It ended with her watching her sources swing through the air from piercings in their skin. Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Reporting, Story development, Tips, Writing
Tagged body suspension, journalism, University of Tampa, UPI, UPIU, Writing
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Get paid to write for UPI.com!
Are you a journalism student? Do you want to work as a paid freelancer?UPI.com is looking for a few good stories! Every j-student who posts a story on UPIU has a shot at a UPI.com byline, but now UPIU is looking for stories that will be written specifically for UPI.com. Three students who pitch the best story ideas will be paid $100 each to write those stories. Continue reading
UPIU brings real-world journalism to the classroom
Share Professors: Want to motivate your journalism students? Help them get their work published. UPIU student contributors regularly get published not only at UPI.com, but by other national media as well. Just ask Geri Alumit Zeldes, assistant professor of journalism … Continue reading
Posted in Reporting, Social Media, Source development, Story development, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged journalism, professional experience, professors, SEO, UPI, UPIU
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Notes from Juba: “We were there when they became a nation.”
UPIU reporter Suleiman Abdullahi was part of a two-person team who reported on the Sudan referendum for UPIU and UPI.com. Abdullahi has reported from war-ravaged Somalia and isn’t afraid to venture into Eastleigh, one of Nairobi’s rougher neighborhoods, but he didn’t know what to expect when he landed in Juba, southern Sudan’s capital city Continue reading
Posted in International Journalism, UPIU Special Projects, UPIU users
Tagged international reporting, journalism, Sudan, UPI, UPIU
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Some help from a Chinese j-student
Share[Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI] When a photo gallery from China of a biodegradable urn burial ceremony came in it had one vague cutline for all 16 photos. We knew our viewers would want an explanation as vivid as the gallery … Continue reading
Posted in UPIU users
Tagged Beijing, biodegradable, ceremony, China, journalism, Peking, Tianjin, UPI, UPIU, urn
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Going Global Podcast: Australian students cover sports, environment
ShareJournalism students at the University of Wollongong in Australia recently submitted their stories to UPIU. One story, Gary McDonald’s feature on his country’s soccer aspirations, was published on UPI.com. Click on the media player to listen to UPIU International Coordinator … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged Australia, environment, Gary McDonald, Harumi Gondo, j-students, journalism, Krista Kapralos, soccer, sports, University of Wollongong, UPI, UPIU
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Aussie j-students discuss opinion in stories
Share Is it ever okay for a journalist to say what he or she really thinks? When can a journalist takes sides on an issue? Journalism students at Australia’s University of Wollongong discussed those questions during an online video chat … Continue reading
Posted in UPIU users
Tagged Australia, burqa, Eric Loo, FIFA, Going Global, j-students, journalism students, journalist, Krista Kapralos, opinion, University of Wollongong, UPI, UPIU, Wollongongv
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UPIU Featured by the Society of Professional Journalists
ShareUPIU was featured in a column in the Society for Professional Journalists’ Quill magazine. The topic was “sites help students build portfolios.” Jeff South’s article begins with a story about Kate Lewanowicz’s submission to UPIU and deals with a few … Continue reading
