Universities should host the newsrooms of their neighborhoods, towns and counties. If a university has a journalism department, college media and audience, this seems like a foregone conclusion. Picture Temple University. It is a big, diverse, robust, public research university with a clutch of respected professional schools and an expansive undergraduate population that has been [...]

They weren’t from around here, were they, shouted my neighbor across the street over the weekend. She was talking about a pack of young journalists — from Florida and Washington state and California — who had invaded my Fishtown rowhome the weekend before. That was perhaps one of the largest take aways I drew from [...]

Updated 4/13/10 @ 8:50 a.m.: Regionally-specific hyperlocal is just part of the broader system WHYY, the public media station for the Delaware Valley region, is hoping a $1.2 million hyperlocal news initiative for the northwest region of Philadelphia will be the first successful bold Web-first journalism effort from a legacy media player. Updated: That northwest [...]

I contributed a short profile of a 1995 Temple University law graduate to the winter issue of Temple Review, the university’s alumni magazine. Trial lawyers are storytellers, and Lukas Reiter, LAW ’95, always wanted to be a storyteller. He’s just taken it one step further now. After graduating from the Klein School of Law, Reiter, [...]

Community newspapers in Philadelphia remain wary of the Web, if any stock is to be paid to a morning panel from a journalism innovation conference held this month at Temple University. Their thoughts just might be relevant to community-focused news gathers across the country. Hosted by Temple’s journalism department, the Philadelphia Initiative for Journalistic Innovation [...]

I covered for Metro Philadelphia the political battle between my alma mater Temple University and another alumnus Rep. John Taylor, who is pushing to hold back a $175 million appropriation for the school because of a closed hospital. Nathaniel Nnadiugwu says he feels like there’s nothing he can do about a political fight between Temple [...]

One year ago I was cleaning out my desk in Room 243, the newsroom of The Temple News, the college newspaper of Temple University since September 1921. I spent one year as a reporter, one year as a columnist, one year as a contributor and one year as an editor. It is, truly, where I [...]

My friend Sean Blanda once regularly wrote on the failures of journalism schools. It’s not exactly my territory because I studied politics, not journalism in school. But, I’ve heard enough from friends and colleagues. It seems most everything they learned, I learned while working at my college newspaper. The journalism school at Temple University, like [...]

Monday, December 10, 2008 To: President Ann Weaver Hart Re: Professor Eugene Martin CC: University Provost Lisa Staiano-Coico, SCT Dean Concetta M. Stewart, BTTM Department Chair Jan Fernback President Hart: One of the great honors of my young life was to be named the speaker at my graduation from Temple University on May 22, 2008. [...]

Ow, that hurts. My very good buddy Sean Blanda was named among the 100 best young journalists in the country. And, rightly, so, got a nod on the front page of Temple University’s School of Communications homepage. I was gleeful over getting the same nod – a place on the UWire 100. So where’s my [...]