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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Nov. 28 — Emergency landings

By Hank Stuever | November 29, 2012 | 0

Mayday! Jour494 is circling for a landing. And the pilot is losing consciousness. And the wing is on fire. No, wait, both wings are on fire! Which is to say that some people are still trying to find a story to write for their final assignment. The only good news is that there are no…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Nov. 26 — name of dog, brand of beer

By Hank Stuever | November 26, 2012 | 0

On Monday, we finished up critiquing the Nov. 7 scene stories. For my general diagnoses of these stories as a whole, please see the Nov. 19 recap. Meanwhile, here are excerpts from the three stories that I liked best, and why. (I haven’t fixed anything — the copy you’ll read here is exactly as it…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Nov. 14 — Won’t you be my neighbor?

By Hank Stuever | November 15, 2012 | 2

We spent a fair amount of time Wednesday discussing Tom Junod’s 8,100-word profile of Mister Rogers. It ran 14 (!!) years ago in Esquire and it’s still one of those pieces that makes me tear up. It’s beautifully constructed. Its paragraphs are dense but many of its sentences are deliberately simple, mirroring Fred Rogers’s way…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Oct. 29 — What is this REALLY about?

By Hank Stuever | October 30, 2012 | 1

My day never really gets going until I read what Nancy Nall has to say, as well as her regular commenters. Reading her blog has been a daily habit for, gosh, maybe a decade now. Lately, both in class and in the Kaimin critiques on Friday (the student-run paper at the University of Montana), I’ve…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Oct. 24 — television without pity

By Hank Stuever | October 25, 2012 | 1

Busy class on Wednesday. We finished up critiquing the personal essay riffs: Dustin on “Lost”; Cody on “The Gong Show” reruns; Ashley on “Supernatural” and boy bands; Allison on “The Office’s” Jim & Pam romance; and Carli on loving the ’80s, even though she missed the ’80s entirely. Good discussions. Then we talked about progress…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Oct. 17 — How they did that scene story

By Hank Stuever | October 19, 2012 | 0

We spent most of Wednesday’s class period talking about the five scene stories I assigned for readings. These are each different kinds of scene stories, and I want the students to keep these handy as they work on their own scene stories, due Nov. 7. The first one is a ride-along (literally), as Dan Zak…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Oct. 15 — the divine scene story

By Hank Stuever | October 16, 2012 | 0

We’re delving into scene stories now, and what do I mean by that? It’s a feature that’s not too long, heavy on narrative and vivid detail, that takes a reader into a place they might not normally go, or were too busy to get to, or don’t have the access to. Reporting on a trial…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Oct. 1 — The Context of No-Context

By Hank Stuever | October 3, 2012 | 0

George W.S. Trow’s long essay about American culture and the irreversible effects of television on the national psyche, Within the Context of No-Context, was first published in the New Yorker’s Nov. 17, 1980, issue. It took up nearly the whole magazine. It changed people — and also irritated many. It still has the effect of…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Sept. 26 — group critiques of essays

By Hank Stuever | September 27, 2012 | 0

We spent the entire class period Wednesday doing roundtable critiques of the reported essays. For the handful of you reading this blog way outside of room 301, this is where we’re mostly going to have to leave you out of the fun. When it comes to this part of the process, what happens in room…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Sept. 24 — scene stories

By Hank Stuever | September 27, 2012 | 0

We’re a month into the semester, the pace is quickening, and the Pollner class is turning into a bit of a juggling lesson. On Wednesday, we’re going to be group-critiquing the reported essays. (Professor Stuever is also grappling with something he hasn’t thought one bit about since he left college: grades. How to grade? There’s…

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