By Alexis Frayton, J Camp Live! staff The headlines at the supermarket rack scream at the shopper: “Angelina tells Brad: ‘I’m Leaving you and the kids!’” or “Lindsay Lohan, Back on Drugs!” Yet it only takes weeks, if not days, for those claims to be refuted and proven untrue. The journalist’s role is to report [...]
By Kimberly Lee, J Camp Live! staff Waking up to the “zooms” of hovercrafts flying outside a window, the 2050 citizen grabs a cup of freshly brewed coffee and sits at the kitchen table to read the morning news. But instead of the traditional 14” by 16” newspaper, the latest news and information from around [...]
By Dan Hill, J Camp Live! Staff Sunday night. Three of the best-known television reporters in the nation’s third largest media market sit on the stage of Loyola University’s Baumhart Hall. They are powerful people, highly accomplished, and they command attention from the audience of “budding” young journalists. As the reporters share their stories, the [...]
By Katie Chen, J Camp Live! staff Journalists tell the best stories because after all, it is a part of their job. This is something I realized during my first few days at J Camp in Chicago. No matter how many people we listened to from the industry, all of them had unique tales to [...]
By Sharan Shetty, J Camp Live! staff The journalism industry seems to be on the steep decline. Newspaper readership is plummeting, advertising is down and layoffs are as common as home foreclosures. The news business seems to be dominated by the Internet. But all that doesn’t matter. The sharing of knowledge, the eternal pursuit to [...]
On Sunday, 28 J Camp students arrived at Chicago’s New Maxwell Street Market with their pens, notebooks and cameras. Their two-hour assignment: talk to people, take notes and prepare to write a story. Here’s some of what J Camp’s students found: Tapping out a tradition Tap dancer Annie Peacenik isn’t just randomly entertaining Maxwell Street [...]
By Alexandria Medellin, J Camp Live! staff Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist John White wants aspiring photographers to be the lightning, not the thunder. During a storm, the thunder makes loud sounds, but it does not do much else, White explains. But lightning is powerful, can be seen, and makes things to happen. “Be the lightning,” White [...]
By Juliet Liu, J Camp Live! staff As the world gears up for the Beijing Olympics, financial constraints have forced Sports Illustrated magazine to cut back on its planned presence in China, according to SI Photography Editor James Colton. “Unfortunately, there have been a lot of cutbacks in the business because of money and a [...]
By Katie Chen, J Camp Live! staff After a three hour plane ride from Arizona and an hour long adventure on Chicago’s public transportation, I finally arrived at my destination of Loyola University: the home of J Camp 2008. I was, of course, nervous once I got off the plane. I was in a huge [...]
by AYEESHIK KOLE J Camp Live! Staff Writer Forty-two students from across the nation ventured to the University of Miami campus to begin an intensive six-day high school journalism program sponsored by the Asian American Journalists Association. Some were native to the Miami-Dade County area, while others flew as far away as Hawaii to be [...]