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Gary Kebbel

Gary Kebbel

Journalism Program Director, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
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RT @ralloway: My JOUR 101 students and I will work through the 2011 State of the Media report on Tuesday. Be interested to see what they think.
International Symposium on Online Journalism at UT has timely speakers from NPR , Patch, among others. It's always a good conference. #ISOJ
Accrediting committee voted unanimously to re-accredit U. of Nebraska College of J & Mass Com. One more review, one more vote next month
Third lesson: the best things about China are 1) the people, 2) the food, 3) foot massage.
Second lesson: White wine is really Everclear. Oh what a night!
Quick lesson for those traveling in China: use anything except your GMail account.
Had a super fantastic trip to Chongqing and Beijing. Of course, students will benefit. :-) we will be setting up cool Programs.
Not ready to leave China, but the trip has been great for setting up new programs with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Total Yumm. Eating Peking Duck in Beijing.
My life for the next 15 hours. http://plixi.com/p/84702530
It's weird to see that sign on a gate at O'Hare that says "Beijing" and realize that's your flight. Looking forward to a new experience.
Arianna Huffington is speaking at Knight Foundation community event about how helping the middle class is neither a left nor right issue.
CEO of Knight Foundation talking about importance of worldwide mobile communication. He's opening a seminar on community information needs.
Just bought shot glass at U.S. House of Reps Longworth Office Building. But they don't sell shot glasses. They sell toothpick holders.
At a national deans meeting: the group is really energized by Knight News Challenge winners' talk about how/why they created their products.
Meeting: Knight News Challenge winners are showing J-school administrators how students could use KNC innovations.
Here's how Colorado plans to "redistribute" journalism professors: http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_1739...
Said it before and will say again: Since Colorado U. is eliminating its School of Journalism, Nebraska's is strong and growing. Come on down
FYI - @mattwaite will be teaching new prodcut development, CAR, reporting, entrepreneurship and who knows what else at Nebraska.
Thanks to @andymboyle, @elisabethhoole, @pilhofer for your nice comments about Nebraska hiring @mattwaite. Very exciting.
Dante Chinni, co-author of the book Patchwork Nation, gave our immigration reporting students great ideas to cover the issue in Nebraska.
Mayberry talks about using media skills for community building and social justice, particularly in rural India, but applied anywhere.
Mayberry is an Echoing Green Fellow, a TED speaker, a Knight News Challenge winner. She's our college's 3rd Innovator in Residence.
Jessica Mayberry, founder of Video Volunteers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... is telling U of Neb.-Lincoln comm. students about entrepreneurship.
Not Lincoln. 70 degrees on the balcony. http://plixi.com/fail
Got to do this quickly. Am on platform just as graduation commencement starts. Will hand out diplomas soon.
Am meeting in World Room at Columbia J School, recalling it was the site of the first (two, I think) ONA conferences. How ONA has grown!
Having great discussions at Columbia U. about journalism curriculum development and how J colleges can and should lead in the digital age.
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