Student bloggers, listen up. CollegeScholarships.org is giving US$10,000 to a college student who blogs. The deadline for nominations, in the form a 300 word essay about why the blogger deserves the award, is October 6th.
As someone who sees tremendous potential in blogging, I welcome this scholarship. Despite the continuing debate in journalism over the value of blogs, blogging can offer a powerful tool for students as a vehicle for self-expression and reflexivity.
Blogging is part of the journalism curriculum at the UBC School of Journalism and the students are encouraged to explore new forms of writing.
Unfortunately, the scholarship is limited to US citizens. Still, there is also the Knight News Challenge, which this year funded eight bloggers to the tune of US$15,000.
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interesting post on one of mint’s blogs in india on the relevance of shorthand in journalism. while UK still offers it and journalists are preferring to use in addition to digital recorders, schools in US have long ditched it and media schools in India too do not see much relevance in a skill that is associated with secretaries and typists of a bygone era.
a good read and worth pondering over by those in the journalism/ reporting industry
http://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/career/archive/2008/11/20/building-a-case-for-the-humble-lowly-shorthand.aspx