It has arrived! The day you’ve been waiting for is finally here! Oh wait, no, people still misuse they’re/their/there and incorrectly punctuate their sentences. They’re sentences? Whatever.
I digress. AP Style has released new T-shirts for sale on its website so you and all your journalism junkies and radio roadies can coordinate at the next Comma-Con. And for $18, this wouldn’t make a bad Halloween costume, either.
Jim MacMillan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who taught a journalism and psychological trauma course last spring, will return to Temple for the Spring 2009 semester for round two of the class.
MacMillan, center.
MacMillan’s class will feature discussion of ethical and personal dilemmas that often arise for journalists who cover traumatic events. He will invite guest speakers, including other photojournalists, print journalists, victim advocates and a medical expert.
Last year’s featured guests included photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson, Associated Press West Africa Bureau Chief Todd Pitman, NBC10 cameraman Pete Kane, former Philadelphia Police officer and Philadelphia Inquirer crime reporter Tom Gibbons and representatives from Mothers in Charge, an organization of mothers who have lost children to violence in Philadelphia.
MacMillan is a veteran photojournalist who recently left the Philadelphia Daily News after working there for 17 years. His experience with trauma and journalism comes not only from covering violence in and around Philadelphia, but also from spending a year working for the Associated Press in Iraq (his work for which he won the Pulitzer) and from covering news events like the Oklahoma City bombing, Sept. 11 and Hurricane Katrina.
This spring, journalism and psychological trauma will be offered as a special topics course listed as Journalism 3700, and will be offered Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:40 p.m. to 4 p.m. Seats are still open, and non-journalism majors are welcome with special permission.
Former CBS3 reporter Dick Standish is doing fine after fainting at his retirement party Wednesday.
Standish’s last day on the air was Wednesday at 4 p.m. Afterwards, after having a Coors Light at Finnigan’s Wake, he fainted for drinking on a light stomach, according to an article by Inquirer Daily News local news guru Dan Gross.
The above photo was taken by CBS3 reporter Jamie Smith, who visited Standish at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday. The trooper that he is, Standish let Smith take a photo of him in his hospital gown.
Standish retired from CBS3 after more than 29 years at the station.
