Profile: The One Man Band

By KRISTA TATE,
J Camp Live! Staff
Audio by NATALIE KING, AYEESHIK KOLE,
Photography by CARLO ACENAS.
Life took a turn for musician Newton Grantine when he met his wife in New York. With their first son arriving, Grantine was forced to play music on the New York City streets for diaper money.
That was 31 years ago. To this [...]

Profile: James Colton, Sports Illustrated photography editor

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. He’s the photography [...]

Profile: Reporter and author Teri Agins

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 of the high [...]

Profile: Richard Lui, man of many talents

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 experiences shaped [...]

Ayeeshik: All I Wanna Do Is Facebook, But Chris Says ‘Finish Your Blog’

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 our [...]

Shivani: Goodbye to J Camp and hash browns

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 is [...]

Shivani: My playlist and J Camp love

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: Pierre Thomas; Q&A

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

Profile: Poet and Author Geoffrey Philp

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 above quote originated from [...]

Profile: Writer Roy Peter Clark

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 compiled these [...]