Journalism – Campus News

June 24, 2024

Is it a Hamptons thing? Why is Justin Timberlake’s DWI arrest such big news?

By Darren Johnson Campus News I’ve been following with curious disinterest the recent Justin Timberlake DWI arrest and how the media has treated it….

June 19, 2024

The Top 10 reasons why a press release doesn’t get into the newspaper

By Darren Johnson Campus News Dear PR People: Along with Campus News, I also publish a print community paper. It goes to press twice…

May 20, 2023

The death of Main Street — and of newspapers

By Darren Johnson Campus News It’s in a newspaper’s best interest to have healthy Main Streets in our towns and villages. For me, that…

April 16, 2023

A new generation for news production

Pictured: NOTICE News staff: Washington Correspondent Angie Castillo and Producer & Anchor Jonathan Low. Tristan Brown-DeVirgilio Campus News Andrew Springer is co-founder and CEO…

April 16, 2023

Media veterans discuss the state of news

Samantha Simmons Campus News Capital Region journalists Ken Tingley, Judy Patrick, and Wendy Liberatore hosted a panel at the Greenwich Free Library in Upstate…

February 23, 2023

Don’t normalize ChatGPT and AI-based writing

By Darren Johnson Campus News Passable Artificial Intelligence (AI) based writing has been with us for a few years now, but only recently has…

February 9, 2023

COLUMN: Newspapers are just a product, like anything else

By Darren Johnson Campus News I’m really exhausted by all the doomsayers who keep repeating, over and over, that print newspapers are dead. They…

January 14, 2023

Two-year college has three print newspapers

By Tristan Brown-DeVirgilio Campus News After a pause in publishing hard copy issues during 2020 and 2021, all three student newspapers at Suffolk County…

January 10, 2023

Some print newspapers can last a good while longer — don’t believe the doomsayers

By Darren Johnson Campus News There’s a guy in my region, the former editor of a small daily paper (that still exists), going around…

September 7, 2022

Journalism Corner: Newspapers vs. longshot candidates

Darren Johnson Campus News It’s no secret that community newspapers are struggling and have to do more with less. Besides this newspaper, I also…

June 6, 2022

Campus News web site to change format for 2022-23 academic year

By Darren Johnson Campus News Over the summer, we will be transitioning this web site into something different. When we started Campus News as…

January 6, 2022

Remember when newspapers were fun?

By Darren Johnson Campus News A well-intentioned department in New York City government is tasked with making sure news boxes in the boroughs are…

July 10, 2021

THE STATE OF JOURNALISM: A look at the local papers in my hometown

By Darren Johnson Campus News NOTE: This was published in my other paper, the Greenwich Journal & Salem Press, a community paper in Upstate…

July 19, 2020

What’s next for Campus News?

NOTE: This appears in our current print edition, here. By Darren Johnson Campus News Here you, dear reader, have happened upon this edition of…

January 18, 2020

So you want a journalism job? Buy one. (With podcast.)

By Darren Johnson Campus News and CampusXM.com I want you to listen to my podcast on this subject. Find it here. In the photo…