A few weeks ago, the next crop of journalism students came by to receive awards, and I repeated the process, not wanting these new kids to feel left out. (Apparently some of them found that blog post when they researched the awards.)
These awards are an early indicator of strong candidates among the field of upcoming graduates. Two of the five winners from last year ended up as interns this year - Mel Lefebvre on the copy desk and Katherine Lalancette as a reporter. I can't imagine that's a coincidence.
But, of course, it's not absolute. After all, I didn't win any of these awards when I was a journalism student, and look how awesome I am now!
Students of Concordia University's journalism graduate diploma program
Almost a month ago, The Gazette went through a yearly tradition of inviting journalism students into its office and handing out some awards (read: small bursaries) to those who have stood out among their peers.
This evening went on like others have before it, with the students being invited into the office and being served wine and cheese before some people they don't know introduce other people they don't know and hand out bursaries named after people they don't know.
But there was a big difference this year: a new bursary, named after someone else they didn't know.
I got a visit at the end of January from two Concordia students putting together a package for their TV class about blogging. The result is the video above, which is very brief and probably doesn't give you any insight you didn't already have into me (except the fact that there's an embarrassingly large pile of unread newspapers in my sparsely-decorated living room).
A bit more interesting is that they also visited Midnight Poutine's Jeremy Morris, shadowing him and his new partner as they recorded a podcast (you can listen to that particular podcast here).
If you haven't heard it, Midnight Poutine's Weekend Playlist Podcast is a weekly podcast, about an hour long, that features music from bands performing locally over the coming week (almost always independent bands performing at smaller venues). Not only is it useful in that sense (if you like the music, you can go see the band that week), but it gives people a chance to discover new music they can't hear on commercial radio because they're too busy replaying that Black Eyed Peas song for the 10,000th time.
This year's lineup looks interesting, if only because of a panel called Life After the Expos, with Dave van Horne and Elliott Price. It will be followed by a play-by-play workshop, which also includes Sportsnet's Rob Faulds.
Registration is free, and the event takes place at Loyola campus on Saturday, Nov. 7.
* Of course, the likelihood of anyone getting a job in sports journalism, much less as a play-by-play announcer, is just about zero in this media environment.
I was surprised to recognize two of the names, since I've been pretty detached from my alma mater for three years now (long enough for everyone who was there to have gotten a degree and moved on).
A side note to these journalists-to-be: Set up blogs or other forms of personal websites so when people like me talk about you, we have something to link to. Remember, you are whatever Google says you are.
October 27, 2007 – 2:40 am|Posted in Montreal, Video
Concordia Reports, the TV news show created by Concordia journalism students, has started its third season since the shows started being uploaded to YouTube.
Though it's a low-budget show, its journalists are untrained and nobody involved is going to win any awards for smooth acting, the show provides a chance to watch some interesting stories about Concordia and Montreal.
The second episode of the season includes a story on CJLO, the Concordia student radio station that's still, after a gabillion years, trying to get its transmitter setup to broadcast on AM. It also features a lengthy interview with Mike Boone (starting about the 12-minute mark) about HabsInsideOut.com.
So far they have 32 shows uploaded, between 15 and 25 minutes in length.
RT @thatalliemason: Thought-provoking/paranoia-inciting opinion piece by @mirichardson (depending on which category you fall into) http: ... 7 hours ago
Forget the Gomez goal, or the Pacioretty hat trick. The most shocking thing tonight: Habs power play was 100%. (Okay, it was 1/1) 8 hours ago
@kick1972 JE PROTÈGE MES SOURCES! ARRÊTER VOTRE ENQUÊTE IMMÉDIATEMENT!!! 8 hours ago
RT @monique_muise: Best tweet so far has been from @nicoduretour (translated from Fr): "#Gomez scored. Time to change the batteries in y ... 8 hours ago
