With a great deal of help from Sean Blanda, the Internet Jesus himself at The Temple News, I recently unveiled a multimedia package on former Temple University President Peter Liacouras. He held the top spot for 18 years, from 1982 to 2000, and a great deal of expansion, both academic and geographic, happened under his [...]

Last week, I posted about The Temple News covering Hillary Clinton holding a rally in McGonigle Hall at Temple, in front of a crowd of several thousand. LeAnne Matlach, the assistant News Editor, reported there; Chris Stover, the Chief Copy Editor, filed an audio story, and Sean Blanda, our Online Editor, edited down video highlights [...]

There has been plenty of speculation about where Barack Obama will be tomorrow. It has been announced that he will be speaking somewhere in Philadelphia, but the location has been kept limited, for reasons I don’t entirely understand. The speech has been described as a major address on race in politics, so expect historic words. [...]

Sen. Hillary Clinton held a campaign rally at Temple University’s McGonigle Hall yesterday night. Hear an audio report here by The Temple News here, and read its coverage here. Her hubby Bill Clinton was at the University of Pennsylvania two weeks ago, which I covered, though his speech was on inequality, not the election Number [...]

Sen. Hillary Clinton was at Temple University today, and I was on hand, taking photographs for The Temple News, though I won’t have them posted until tomorrow morning. I will additionally post some video clips of the speech. Next week, Barack Obama is coming to Temple. As Philadelphia and Pennsylvania’s importance increases with its primary [...]

No one needs to remind a self-aware student journalist about the dangers of satire. Every April brings with it new stories of high school and college publications biting it hard after trying their hand at April Fool’s Day issues. Most usually, the beef comes about with expectations. Young journalists try their best to be as [...]

By Christopher Wink | Oct. 30, 2007 | The Temple News Temple University has been built on the backs of the dead. It’s late October, and we think about the old, the hidden and the dead. Temple has its ghosts, indeed. TEMPLE BY GRAVES In the 1880s, Russell Conwell was laying the groundwork for what [...]

Yesterday, for The Temple News, I went with a staff photographer to the campus of the University of Pennsylvania to see former President Bill Clinton give a speech. I wrote a quick summary, grabbed a photo and had it on our site before any other media. Number of Views:320

How about having an event to increase attendance and… no one shows up? Ouch. Well, that’s what happened for a consortium between the business school and the athletic marketing at Temple University. For The Temple News, I covered the finals of a competition that asked Temple students to make suggestions of how to increase fan [...]

In a world of new media, The Temple News has taken another big step. In what we hope to be the beginning of a series, with the help of our Online Editor Sean Blanda, I have put together a multimedia profile of pop rock legends and former Temple students, Daryl Hall & John Oates. Play one of their classics [...]