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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): More readings for further study …

By Hank Stuever | December 17, 2012 | 0

Reading is the only way to learn how to write. I kept pushing this point all semester and I certainly assigned a lot of readings. This being college, and these being college students, we operate with this wonderful notion that everyone has the time and desire to read it all. But anyone who ever went…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Dec. 13 — The final critiques

By Hank Stuever | December 17, 2012 | 2

We were up before dawn on Thursday to meet one last time for a group critique of the final stories. The professor worked hard not to get verklempt, but that got exponentially more difficult when he was presented with this amazing poster (above), a gift from the class, designed by Carli Krueger. It’s a graphic…

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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 recaps for Nov. 5 and 7 — Weingarten week!

By Hank Stuever | November 11, 2012 | 0

Sorry for the delay in recapping. You can tell that the semester has reached the frenzy point here at the School of Journalism. My crew in the Pollner seminar (aka this class) is spread so thin that you can hear the knives clanking in their mayonnaise jars; just being around them makes me vicariously exhausted.…

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Popular Culture Journalism (JOUR494): Class recap for Oct. 31 — Shaggs’ own thing

By Hank Stuever | November 5, 2012 | 0

Last Wednesday’s class was more of a had-to-be-there thing. As we move into reading and talking about long (or sometimes just long-ish) narratives, our class sessions are becoming more and more like a book group. (Without wine and Trader Joe’s-style nosh, alas.) We wonder “how’d she get that?” and try to think of answers. We…

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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. 10 — Juggalos and other frights

By Hank Stuever | October 11, 2012 | 2

Today’s assignment was to watch Sean Dunne’s remarkable, 23-minute documentary, American Juggalo, and think about how you would have handled that assignment — to spend a couple of days in the midst of the juaggalos at their annual bacchanal in an Illinois campground each August. Factor in everything: the kind of people you’d be talking…

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