By JAKE SUTERA, Photography by HANNAH RYU J Camp Live! Staff One by one the photos flashed across the screen: Muhammad Ali towering over a defeated Sonny Liston, a swimmer’s face planted against a diving board, a young girl playing basketball inside a Chinese cave. These images deliver what James Colton calls the “oooh” factor. [...]
By NATALIE KING, J Camp Live! Staff Arriving fashionably late in Manolo Blahniks – the stereotypical Manhattanite – Teri Agins propped herself on a slick brown table and embraced herself for an array of questions. What was it like to dine at Karl Lagerfeld’s house? How did race affect her career progression? Agins answered all [...]
By MATT LEUNG, video by SARAH NGUYEN J Camp Live! Staff The same CNN reporter who broke news on the Virgina Tech shootings and followed the aftermath in Bali after terrorist bombings once worked for Mrs. Fields cookies. He also worked for QED, an environmental agency with a hippie at the helm. All of these [...]
Our denouement is within reach: the last News Quiz question has been answered, the last speakers have been questioned, the last hot, humid, sticky, fifteen-minute promenade to the University of Miami Communications Center has been taken. If anything, the journey of 40-something eclectic students was the opposite of a Pyrrhic victory. We not only enhanced [...]
The experiences I encountered in just six days at J Camp felt like they could easily encompass the space of an entire month. Here are a few of the life lessons I picked up: you can’t plan your life so don’t try to; read read read; if the only thing you can do in life [...]
If I had to choose one thing that I loved about J Camp it wouldn’t be the incredible journalists that come and impart their knowledge. It wouldn’t be the fact that tuition is paid for by the Asian American Journalists Association. It definitely would not be the humidity in Miami. And it most certainly wouldn’t [...]
Video by SARAH NGUYEN J Camp Live! Staff Pierre Thomas Q&A Part 1 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v= GPXF8J1EKZw Q&A Part 2 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v= cYdiSQKt-f0
By JAKE SUTERA, J Camp Live! Staff Geoffrey Philp quoted one of his many writing influences, and the tone of his voice deepened, displaying the dedication he has towards his craft. “Each sentence should make a clear statement. It should add to the statement that went before….Avoid the abstract. Always go for the concrete.” The [...]
By SARAH NGUYEN, Photography by Hannah Ryu J Camp Live! Staff Roy Peter Clark’s attire — a light ocean blue shirt with stitched palm trees, gray slacks, and Nike shoes — may have been casual, but he’s definitely serious about his writing. The journalism guru certainly has a toolbox full of writing tips, which he [...]
by J Camp Live! Staff The bulging white body bags and the flak-jacketed police evoked memories of the deadly April 2007 Virginia Tech shootings. But the eerie similarities today on the University of Miami campus were intentional. At 7:03 a.m., University of Miami police, in conjunction with the Coral Gables police and fire departments, FBI, [...]